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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 NietTim »

jonatron wrote: post #18

Colocation with ebay'd servers and graphics cards. Some people don't know there's somewhere in between building a datacentre and cloud servers.

That's not a low cost solution though, and hard to just turn off the cost when you're done with your day

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

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Post by pedrocr »

nurettin wrote: post #29
krageon wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Break even applies to the crossover point between any two options. You can break-even between renting or buying a house at some point even though you are even between two options that cost you money.

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

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Post by abrichr »

lukeqsee wrote: post #17
tmikaeld wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

~ 8.5x higher price than Hetzner.

Yes, they're at a much higher price point, but it's also way cheaper than AWS. I certainly understand the draw of Hetzner's price point!

How is Herzner able to be so much cheaper than the competition?

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

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Post by blodovnik »

Aws and Google spot instances are easily comparable price wise to hetzner but it really depends on what you are doing, which you haven't said.

For example a g3 spot instance can be as low as 19 cents per hour $138/month.

Google GPU instances I've run for 14 cents an hour.

I think these aren't the lowest prices either.

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

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Post by Eldt »

abrichr wrote: post #36
lukeqsee wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, they're at a much higher price point, but it's also way cheaper than AWS. I certainly understand the draw of Hetzner's price point!

How is Herzner able to be so much cheaper than the competition?

Unmanaged (and typically old) hardware

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

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Post by chx »

https://www.serverhunter.com/?search=BF6-4AC-E30 says the cheapest provider with a GTX GPU is Ikoula with an 1070 at 101.66 USD and then Hetzner and then Hostkey. https://www.hostkey.com/gpu-servers

It doesn't find https://dedispec.com/gpu.php these but I do :) I also read somewhere they even accept shipped in GPUs. I know they did with disks.

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