Some little known fact because they don't advertise the feature: You can re-scale your cloud vps servers up and down (and even switch from shared-core to dedicated cores) and pay by the hour, as long as you don't tick the "rescale storage space" option. I.e. you can start with a shared-cpu VPS for as little as 5€ that has 20 GB storage, and flexible scale it to an 48-core EPYC for just a couple of hours, and after you are done scale it down. If you are okay with slower storage, you can get separate storage from them and and mount via network. You do need to reboot between scaling, though.
I use that for development - I use VSCode with remote extension so the building, running and code indexing happens on the cloud server. Most of the time a small instance is enough, if I need more power I scale it up within seconds, and at the end of the work day (or week) back to a small instance (or shut off).
I use that for development - I use VSCode with remote extension so the building, running and code indexing happens on the cloud server. Most of the time a small instance is enough, if I need more power I scale it up within seconds, and at the end of the work day (or week) back to a small instance (or shut off).