How Tycoon works
Tycoon lets you rent virtual machines--full-featured Linux systems you can ssh to and run jobs or services on. You can connect to your Tycoon VMs with a single click, and you have full root access to them to do whatever you like.
Tycoon is a marketplace for computing resources, based on these two simple principles:
- You should only pay for resources you actually use.
- If you want to pay more (a higher rate), you can have more resources.
We make this easy by offering three basic packages offering different levels of service. If you don't need a whole lot of processing power, choose our Bronze package for just one cent per hour. During periods of low demand, you'll get up to 2.9 GHz of CPU power for your VM; when demand is high, your performance will drop to about 100 MHz. If you want to make sure you get more CPU power, just choose our silver or gold packages.
When you rent a VM, we scour our cluster of machines to find one that's not being used much and set up your VM there. You don't have to do anything special--this is all automatic. Eventually, other people renting VMs might get assigned to the same computer--and demand goes up. When multiple people have VMs on the same physical machine, they share its resources, according to the service package they each paid for. For example, a Bronze VM and a Gold VM can share the same machine, but the Gold VM will get at least 20 times more processor time than the Bronze VM.
We make sure that we don't create too many VMs on any given server so that even Bronze VMs can still get at least 100 MHz of CPU performance.
