I run a simple task 3 times a day from my desktop computer. It connects to a certain website at 4pm, 8pm, and 1am, downloads a small amount of data (less then 50mb), and stores it on the harddrive. It's important that this runs everyday, so I am looking into moving this to Google Compute. I know I could just create an instance and leave it on 24/7/365, but that is expensive. Is there a way to have the instance turn on only at 4pm, 8pm, and 1am for 10 minutes each so the data can be downloaded, and then have them turn off after, so I am only charged 30 minutes/day of Google Compute time? Btw, I would be using a Windows Server 2008 image (which is now in limited preview at Google Compute I believe), not a linux image, in case that is relevant.
I run a simple task 3 times a day from my desktop computer. It connects to a certain website at 4pm, 8pm, and 1am, downloads a small amount of data (less then 50mb), and stores it on the harddrive. It's important that this runs everyday, so I am looking into moving this to Google Compute. I know I could just create an instance and leave it on 24/7/365, but that is expensive. Is there a way to have the instance turn on only at 4pm, 8pm, and 1am for 10 minutes each so the data can be downloaded, and then have them turn off after, so I am only charged 30 minutes/day of Google Compute time? Btw, I would be using a Windows Server 2008 image (which is now in limited preview at Google Compute I believe), not a linux image, in case that is relevant.
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