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I don't understand your problem, the Paperspace account is free. You have to pay for the machine you use.
If you can’t use something without paying someone, is it really free?
Free of value it is.
Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything
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Re: Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything
#52I used paper space for remote gaming via Parsec.
I also purchased one of their machines for remote development purposes. While I was waiting for parts to fix my laptop.
The service was really good. The machine was fast, with RDP it felt close to local. They also offered very powerful hard ware.
I moved on because it was a bit pricey at that point. This was about a year, year and a half ago. I think it was about 50 a month for me. I moved onto a dedicated server that I used KVM and LibVirt to manage.
That worked but it's obviously a lot of over head.
Re: Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything
#53Was going to try their Free account, until I signed up and the discovered the big black "Free" had a tiny light grey "+ Machine Utilization Charges" beneath it. Everything is "Free + Charges".
I'm waiting for my honest business practices to pay off. No cookies, no ads, donations only. It hasn't paid off aside from about 1k per year in revenue and lots of thank you emails.
Charge, and double the money you charge. But don't be sneaky about it. Say what you charge, and then charge exactly what you said you'd charge.
Re: Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything
#54This looks like a consumer targeted product. If so, they should use a "per month" pricing instead of the per hour pricing which only caters to nerds who will go through the trouble to calculate. I hope it's actually an affordable option overall compared to any other options out there.
Based on SAML sign-in I'm guessing they're targeting businesses.
Re: Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything
#55Is there something like this that's self-hosted? My ideal scenario is something like this that's $20/month for unlimited usage, with the caveat that you have to have the server in your own house with your own internet, but the service is that it provisions your machine and proxies it for fast speeds everywhere.
Use Parsec for the streaming part.
Re: Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything
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I don't understand your problem, the Paperspace account is free. You have to pay for the machine you use.
What does a Paperspace account get me without a machine?
it looks like it runs jupyter notebooks on a VM of modest resources.
there does not appear to be any free rdp/streaming services, but the jupyter playback seems to function.
agreed that the pricing methods are somewhat sneaky -- email harvesting with sleight of tongue.
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#58What's the AWS equivalent to their biggest instance?
I'd like to see a cost comparison across different providers. A comparable v100 machine on Google Cloud is $2.015/hr, while Paperspace seems to charge 2.30/hr for a dedicated v100 ( https://www.paperspace.com/pricing )
Google Cloud is very sneaky with their pricing as they don't include the instance itself in the advertised GPU pricing. Here's an instance very comparable in specs (8 vCPU, 30GB RAM, 1 V100, 50 GB SSD): https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/#id=a9fbcab5-cb... It's $3.19/hr. The Linux version is $2.87/hr.
Re: Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything
#59Was going to try their Free account, until I signed up and the discovered the big black "Free" had a tiny light grey "+ Machine Utilization Charges" beneath it. Everything is "Free + Charges".
I'm waiting for my honest business practices to pay off. No cookies, no ads, donations only. It hasn't paid off aside from about 1k per year in revenue and lots of thank you emails.
We need a directory of sites like that.
Re: Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything
#60I'm just going to state again what I want, which is only tangentially related to the topic... 1) I go on Github and configure a service 2) I make a wallet that people can donate to 3) I start up a virtual machine, aimed at the Github, using the wallet to pay for the time on the machine. The virtual machine host guarantees that the code at that Github is what's really running. I can imagine lots of other things I want…
Agreed, something like "Netlify for virtual machines" would be useful.
You could probably get close by auto-deploying from GitHub Actions but you wouldn't get the main benefit of a service like that (having ops done in a clean way without having to think much about it).
Without having any experience in the field, aren't lambda functions supposed to provide something like that?