David Crawshaw on Nostr: exe.dev VMs are served off local NVMe but by default regularly replicate their disk ...
exe.dev VMs are served off local NVMe but by default regularly replicate their disk off machine. We are thinking of introducing a VM variant that doesn’t replicate (cheaper, also maybe faster start for odd reasons). What do you call VMs like that? About as durable as a classic VPS.
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