The pre-pay model works well for reservations of a VM, but what are your thoughts about consumables that vary, eg Bandwidth? Would you imagine service providers just say, hey X VM includes Y gig of transfer per hour?
Thanks! Providers could create payment endpoints to increase or decrease transfers, storage or compute resources. If you need more of X, you simply squirt BTC at the address.
The appliance currently allows you to set an ask price for the instance size, but later versions could easily let you configure how much you charge for what resource, even doing so based on current demand on your systems.
The pre-pay model works well for reservations of a VM, but what are your thoughts about consumables that vary, eg Bandwidth? Would you imagine service providers just say, hey X VM includes Y gig of transfer per hour?