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DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTS

Stop paying for idle environments

Spin up a test server when you need it. Kill it when you're done. You pay for what you use, not for servers sitting idle.

Every cloud vendor bills you for servers running around the clock. Their copies each need full disk space. Ours share it, so a copy costs almost nothing.

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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.

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. Your team uses them 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. That is 33% use. You pay for the other 67% too. Those servers sit idle nights, weekends, and holidays. That is money gone for nothing.

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 setting up environments and switching tasks 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

Make an exact copy of production whenever you need it. Takes 52 seconds. Costs pennies, because the copy shares disk space with the original.

2

Use

Build, test, demo, whatever you need. Only the parts you change use extra disk space.

3

Tear down

The copy deletes itself after a timer you set. The disk space comes back right away. Nothing keeps charging you.

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. shared copies

Old-school dev environments copy the whole server. Every file. Every setting. Every library. Rediacc works differently. Copies share unchanged data with production. A 380 GB environment uses just 1% more disk.

Traditional (Full Copy)
Rediacc (Shared Copy)
380 GB per environment, fully duplicated
2.1 GB per copy (0.6%), shares data with production
Always-on, paying 24/7 regardless of use
On-demand with a timer you set, deletes itself when done
Manual teardown, forgotten environments accumulate
Automatic cleanup, storage reclaimed instantly
15–30 minutes to set up each new environment
52 seconds to create an exact copy of production
WHY IT MATTERS

What you get

Pay for what you use

No idle servers. Copies share disk space with production. Spin up 10 copies for the cost of a few GB of changes.

Automatic cleanup

Set a timer on each copy (1h, 4h, 8h). It deletes itself when time runs out. No forgotten servers eating your budget for months.

Scale freely

Spin up 50 environments for a load test. Tear them all down after. No capacity planning. No purchase orders.

THE GAP

What others charge for idle capacity

Cloud providers and dev platforms bill you per running server. Rediacc only charges for the disk space your changes use.

Capability CodespacesCoderVercelRailway Rediacc
Copies that share storage (near-zero space) ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓
Self-deleting copies on a timer ✓[4] ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓
Full production data in the copy ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓
Multi-service environments ✗ ✓[5] ✗ ✓[6] ✓
Self-hosted / no per-seat pricing ✗ ✓[7] ✗ ✗ ✓
Setup in under 60 seconds ✗ ✗ ✓[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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$ rdc repo fork production -m primary --tag dev-loadtest

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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.