Compiling stuff

November 5, 2012 2.7k

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shovenose

Would a big DigitalOcean server be good for compiling stuff? like Firefox from source? It owuld be perfect since it's billed hourly.

3 Answers

etel November 5, 2012

Yes—in general the servers are good for compiling things. For example, the hourly billing could be a win for setting up a firefox daily build.

blair.sadewitz November 23, 2012

I routinely build the NetBSD source tree by spinning up huge instances for an hour or two. Saves me a lot of time.

phildobbin December 5, 2012

I do the same for Gitlab & Node...

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