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RE: Steem-in-a-box - Deploy a new seed, witness, or RPC server with a one-liner
If you use a card, yes, yes you can, you could totally use $10, then disappear, not that I would recommend that, since it's pretty douchey.
If you use Paypal, they don't do subscriptions on that, so you'd have to deposit some credit.
Ah I see.. well I probably won't hit and run, but this is kinda like getting a free year of Free Tier on AWS and leaving after the trial. Haha. Thanks!
I just remembered, there is a catch. They won't sell you the more expensive servers until they know you're legit. So you couldn't use that $10 on like a 64gb RAM server with 16 cores and burn through it in a day.
Hmm.. this is different than other cloud providers like Azure.. if you have the credit, you can spend it on whatever you want until you run out, in which you'll have to refill or stop using.
Difference is, places like Azure are expensive as hell. They do not care at all about how much of a reliable customer you are. The equivalent $5 server on DigitalOcean is roughly $30/mo on Azure
There is always the solution of using your own box in the corner in the closet, even coupled with dynamic dns. Haha. But then, the landlord or ISP may cut you off =O