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My low cost provider of GPUs has run out of capacity. Good alternatives?

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Re: My low cost provider of GPUs has run out of capacity. Good alternatives?

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Post by dragandj »

mciancia wrote: post #10

I wonder how are they dealing with nvidia EULAs about using geforce series cards in datacenters. Maybe that is the issue?

I've read somewhere (maybe in HN comments) that these kinds of clauses can not be enforced in EU. Hetzner operates out of Germany.

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Post by mythz »

cryptofits wrote: post #22

Hetzner support is pretty bad took them like 6 days to answer my ticket

Not the experience I've had with Hetzner (been with them for 5+ years), basically all responses have been within a day, 2 at most. Although their servers have been pretty reliable so I haven't had to contact them much.

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Post by ntenenz »

Donald wrote: post #11
mciancia wrote: post #10

I wonder how are they dealing with nvidia EULAs about using geforce series cards in datacenters. Maybe that is the issue?

They use older cards without the restrictions.

The EULA is attached up the drivers. Newer versions of CUDA often require newer drivers, so you bump into the issue regardless of when you buy the GPU.

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Post by fs111 »

etaioinshrdlu wrote: post #2

Hetzner has provided a quality service for a long time but now they have no more GPU servers available. That makes it hard to scale. Any other options out there without going bankrupt on AWS?

scaleway has GPUs now: https://www.scaleway.com/en/gpu-instances/

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Post by hotdox »

mciancia wrote: post #10

I wonder how are they dealing with nvidia EULAs about using geforce series cards in datacenters. Maybe that is the issue?

They don't install drivers into servers, you have to do it by yourself. EULA attached to drivers, not hardware

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Post by nurettin »

krageon wrote: post #14
nurettin wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Break even? Are you generating digital tokens?

Why would that follow? He said "on cost", which I read as "comparing the costs of buying a video card and renting GPU time".

Break even point is used as a term to describe the point your gains are equal to your initial investment, hinting that after this point, you will start making net profit.

Re: My low cost provider of GPUs has run out of capacity. Good alternatives?

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Post by jfindley »

etaioinshrdlu wrote: post #2

Hetzner has provided a quality service for a long time but now they have no more GPU servers available. That makes it hard to scale. Any other options out there without going bankrupt on AWS?

I've used https://www.paperspace.com/ in the past, and they seem reasonable. They're cheaper than AWS but I don't know how they compare to hetzner.
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