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DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS

Stop paying for idle environments

Create environments on demand. Destroy them when you're done. Pay only for what you actually use.

Every cloud vendor charges for always-on infrastructure. None share storage blocks across clones. Rediacc does.

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$ rdc repo fork production
✓ Snapshotting production (btrfs CoW) .. 380 GB
✓ Creating zero-copy clone ...... 2.1 GB used
✓ Starting Docker daemons ....... 4 repos
✓ Configuring auto-cleanup ...... TTL: 4 hours
✓ Health checks passing ......... all green
✓ Clone dev-loadtest ready — auto-destroys in 4 hours
capacity: 380 GB    actual disk: 2.1 GB (0.6%)    cost: $0.003/hr    time: 52s

Illustrative output; actual runs may include extra logs. CLI reference: rdc repo fork

70%
Cost reduction
On-demand
No always-on waste
Auto
Cleanup & TTL
THE PROBLEM

Always-on environments burn money

You have 15 dev environments running 24/7. Developers use them 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. That's 33% utilization. You're paying for the other 67% — servers sitting idle nights, weekends, and holidays.

60–80% of staging environments sit idle at any given time Industry data [1]
$6.9M/yr cost of developer inefficiency per 500 developers Atlassian 2024 [2]
$24K–$50K per developer per year lost to environment provisioning & context switching Industry composite [3]
ALWAYS-ON ENVIRONMENTS
24/7 15 servers running
Nights Idle, still paying
Weekends Idle, still paying
Holidays Idle, still paying
Result 67% waste
WITH REDIACC
Spin up
$0 idle
Auto-cleanup
THE REAL COST

What idle environments are costing you

Every server running overnight is money leaving your bank account for nothing.

Infrastructure Waste Calculator

ALWAYS-ON
Monthly server cost$3,000
Wasted capacity67%
Money burned on idle$2,010
Annual waste
$24,120
WITH REDIACC
Monthly server cost$990
Wasted capacity0%
CoW storage overhead~1%
Annual savings
$24,120
Rediacc uses btrfs copy-on-write: clones share storage blocks with production, using ~1% additional disk. Environments spin up in <60s and auto-destroy via configurable TTL. You pay for one production server, not 15 copies.
HOW IT WORKS

One command. Zero waste.

1

Spin up

Create a production-identical clone on demand. 52 seconds. Costs pennies via copy-on-write.

2

Use

Develop, test, demo — whatever you need. Only changed blocks use additional disk space.

3

Tear down

Environment auto-destroys after configurable TTL. Storage reclaimed instantly. Zero residual cost.

Always-On Wasteful
dev-alice idle 16h/day
dev-bob idle 18h/day
staging-1 idle weekends
staging-2 idle 3 months
15 envs $3,000/mo
BTRFS COW
70% Savings
On-Demand Efficient
dev-alice TTL: 8h
dev-bob TTL: 4h
loadtest-ci TTL: 1h
demo-client TTL: 2h
On-demand $0 idle
UNDER THE HOOD

Full copies vs. copy-on-write

Traditional dev environments duplicate entire servers — every byte of data, every config file, every library. Rediacc uses btrfs copy-on-write: clones share unchanged blocks with production, using only 1% additional storage for a 380 GB environment.

Traditional (Full Copy)
Rediacc (Copy-on-Write)
380 GB per environment, fully duplicated
2.1 GB per clone (0.6%) — shared blocks with production
Always-on, paying 24/7 regardless of use
On-demand with configurable TTL — auto-destroy when done
Manual teardown, forgotten environments accumulate
Automatic cleanup, storage reclaimed instantly
15–30 minutes to provision each new environment
52 seconds to create a production-identical clone
WHY IT MATTERS

What you get

Pay for what you use

No idle servers. Clones share storage via CoW. Spin up 10 clones for the cost of a few GB of delta.

Automatic cleanup

Set TTL per clone (1h, 4h, 8h). Environments auto-destroy. No forgotten servers burning budget for months.

Scale freely

Spin up 50 environments for a load test, tear them all down after. No capacity planning. No procurement.

THE GAP

What others charge for idle capacity

Cloud providers and dev platforms charge per running instance. Rediacc charges per actual storage delta.

Capability CodespacesCoderVercelRailwayRediacc Rediacc
Zero-copy clone storage (CoW) ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓
Configurable TTL auto-destroy ✓[4] ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓
Full production data in clone ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓
Multi-service environments ✗ ✓[5] ✗ ✓[6] ✓
Self-hosted / no per-seat pricing ✗ ✓[7] ✗ ✗ ✓
Sub-60-second provisioning ✗ ✗ ✓[8] ✓[9] ✓
Our monthly infrastructure bill dropped from $4,500 to $1,440 after switching to on-demand clones. We had 15 always-on dev environments running at 30% utilization. Now we spin them up as needed and auto-destroy after 4 hours. The $36K annual savings funded two junior developer salaries.
BEFORE
$4,500/mo
→
AFTER
$1,440/mo
68% reduction · $36K/year saved

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Sources & References
  1. Industry composite from vendor surveys and published benchmarks (ParkMyCloud, Release.com, Northflank). "60–80% of staging environments sit idle at any given time." release.com
  2. Atlassian, DX & Wakefield Research, "State of Developer Experience Report," 2024. "For an organization with 500 developers, losing 8 hours per week costs roughly $6.9 million over the course of a year." www.atlassian.com
  3. Industry composite from multiple sources on context switching costs. "Context switching costs $24K–$50K per developer per year in lost productivity." release.com
  4. Stopped codespaces are automatically deleted after a configurable retention period (0-30 days, default 30). docs.github.com
  5. Coder Dev Containers integration supports multi-container environments inside workspaces via Docker Compose. coder.com
  6. Railway supports multi-service projects with private networking for zero-cost service-to-service communication. docs.railway.com
  7. Coder is a self-hosted open-source (AGPL v3.0) platform deployed in private data centers or cloud services. coder.com
  8. Vercel provisions resources and deploys to Smart CDN making apps live within seconds. vercel.com
  9. Railway provides instant previews with auto-config and automatic build-and-package upon source changes. docs.railway.com
Product performance claims are based on Rediacc's btrfs copy-on-write architecture. Calculator estimates use industry-standard cost models; actual costs vary by organization.