By JoeCodeswell
Dear DO Community,
The Control Panel for “poweroff” says you’ll get charged for usage even if a droplet is powered off.
So why poweroff (even from the command line)?
I mean, what advantage does poweroff give?
Thanks in advance.
Love and peace,
Joe
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There are many reason, it varies as per the user and his/her setup…
On regular basis, power off is used to take snapshot either as backup / restore point, before I perform any major update or simply if I need to take a backup (no i dont use the backup option as given by DO)…
However, at the time of development, there were few instances for testing or RnD on few things, that I needed that power off feature…
But as I said, on every day basis, power off helps to take snapshot…
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