Great. Shut down the instance. You pay nothing when it's off.

> Plus, the title and the content of this post is ...

I know what the article says. I'm telling you it's not a good idea, for the reasons listed above.

I do run a few local images here and there, but that's only for situations where I don't have access to the internet.

Not true for Rackspace.

You're right. From what I hear, it may become a feature once they convert everything to openstack.