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Posted by messh 1/15/2026

Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected(shellbox.dev)
316 points | 159 commentspage 3
cryptonector 1/17/2026|
$0.005/hr while stopped is $43.8/year. That's... that's not bad! Worthwhile as a backup place to do work on open source, host an irssi.
PufPufPuf 1/17/2026|
Given the price when stopped is comparable to price when running on cheaper VPS providers like Hetzner, I'd say that it isn't exactly good either
knorker 1/16/2026||
What are the legalities of having a cash balance, withdrawable? (So not "credits" or something)

Do you need a banking license, or partner with someone who has?

gigatexal 1/15/2026||
ALS no mention of GB’s of bandwidth provided.
indigodaddy 1/16/2026|
If it's hetzner then it's probably not something you have to worry about unless you are talking like terabytes per day
vagab0nd 1/16/2026||
I'm curious: what's the use case? Usually when I need a server I need it to stay on and have a public IP.
behnamoh 1/16/2026|
I wish runpod.io and others had this feature. I've forgotten to stop my pods a few times and only learnt about it when my balance became $0.
littlecranky67 1/15/2026||
Not sure about the security sandbox, but given that paddle.com (your payment provider) takes 5% cut you could consider accepting lightning (bitcoin layer2) payments. QR code generation for lightning invoice is instantaneous just as payment, and will cost less than 0.1% fee (payer pays fee anyway). But the security sandbox should be solid, else it will be used for illegal stuff.
znpy 1/15/2026|
> you could consider accepting lightning (bitcoin layer2) payments.

uh? i lost interest in bitcoin a few years ago, did bitcoin get actually usable for payments ?

kelnos 1/15/2026||
Not really. I mean, I guess the lightning stuff makes it settle/confirm faster than doing an on-chain transaction, but bitcoin as a store of value is still essentially gambling. So you'd want to immediately sell it and convert it to USD (or a stable coin, I guess), and presumably you're incurring fees at whatever exchange you're using.

5% for paddle does sound like it kinda sucks, but I feel like any lower fee you'd end up paying with bitcoin would get eaten up by complexity, annoyance, and currency conversion risk.

nh2 1/16/2026|||
> 5% for paddle does sound like it kinda sucks

Don't underestimate the benefit of it doing international VAT collection and payment. Especially for small amounts.

littlecranky67 1/15/2026|||
lightning also works for USDT, if you prefer that.
mnsc 1/15/2026||
Is it non-American all the way down?
messh 1/15/2026|
I was born in Argentina, so technically American, yes ;)
WhyNotHugo 1/15/2026|||
Weird fun fact (as an Argentinian who went to school in England for a few years): in English-speaking countries, America is not a continent in the same way as in Spanish. In English they have two continents: South America and North America.

So the word "American" in English does not mean the same as "Americano" in Spanish.

There's really no natural word in English to refer to someone from "El continente Americano", because no such continent exists in English. That's why they use the word "American" to refer to someone from USA exclusively.

unwind 1/16/2026|||
That sounded fascinating as a rather large difference in world view stemming only from using different languages.

It turns out that there are various models for the number of continents, and that is (phew) known in Spanish, too. See the Wikipedia page [1] (link to Spanish version) for instance. This is for European Spanish though, but I couldn't find a version of the page in es-AR.

[1]: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continente#Modelos_continental...

dwedge 1/16/2026||||
I think "the Americas" means the continent(s), and America (to some extent) can mean either but it would feel more like something used as a gotcha at a pub quiz.

You're definitely right about there not being a word for someone from that continent though.

derrida 1/16/2026||
That is weird isn't it "Asian, African, European"
singpolyma3 1/15/2026||||
"American" to refer to USA exclusively does make sense either way because USA shares the continent with at least two other countries no matter how you slice it.
krick 1/16/2026||
You probably meant "doesn't make sense".
singpolyma3 1/16/2026||
Correct
ekropotin 1/15/2026|||
Frankly, the model with the single America continent doesn’t make any sense, because south and north Americas are so different in both geographical and cultural/historical sense.
singpolyma3 1/15/2026||
Continents are about geology not culture
Alupis 1/16/2026|||
Well, North and South America are two different tectonic plates[1].

[1] https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/tectonic-plates-earth

wredcoll 1/16/2026||||
They really aren't, there's no objective way to divide the world into exactly 7 continents (or 6) using geology.
nextaccountic 1/16/2026||
America, Afro-Eurasia, Australia, Antarctica

I can count 4

wredcoll 1/16/2026||
Based on what?
nextaccountic 1/16/2026|||
Based on being large landmasses

Potentially any island is a continent if your cutoff is low enough

unmole 1/16/2026|||
Europe says hi.
messh 1/15/2026|||
If it is successful then the next region would be in the US
exabrial 1/16/2026||
This is incredible.

No "command line tools" to install. No absurd over-complicated web APIs.

jahantech 1/16/2026||
Cool project but Hetzner can provide a cloud-vm for $5 (running)

btw I am not from Hetzner

HPsquared 1/16/2026||
I love the text-mode QR code.
orliesaurus 1/16/2026|
is there a typo in the title? disconnected takes 2 n (sorry for the nitpick)