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You could also just start a small project to pay people. If 2¢ per core hour is a reasonable price, that means a Ryzen 5950X user could make $7.68 a day not using SMT threads when the machine is mostly idle.
Contact joinmassive.com - much cheaper than all of this.
https://www.joinmassive.com/faq#users >Massive is like Airbnb or Turo for your computer. Rather than letting you share your home or vehicle when you’re not using them, Massive lets you share any unused computing resources you have. In exchange, app developers give you access to their premium features. This doesn't have security concerns, not at all, nope >Massive combines the small amounts of resources contributed by…
I used to buy dell outlet servers (which is their refurbed gear) all the time for folks who insist on dell, they end up being about 20-50% of the cost of cloud pricing if you are utilizing it with a full workload. Their stuff also includes a 3 year warranty with next day support, so it isn't very risky buying a refurbished server. There have been times where I found deals where the components could be parted out on ebay for more than the cost of the server. If you don't need support, there are tons of used servers on ebay / craigslist where you can get deals on 1-3 year old hardware that are good enough to purchase multiple spares.
For example, you can purchase a 2x 32 core server [1] for ~11k from the outlet store with next day support.
If you are running 24/7, with 64 cores over a 3 year period...
Server Cost / Years / Days in Year / Hours in Day / Cores = Core per hour cost
11000 / 3 / 365 / 24 / 64 = $0.0065/hour
30000 / 3 / 365 / 24 / 192 = $0.0059/hour
[1] - https://outlet.us.dell.com/ARBOnlineSales/Online/SecondaryIn...
[2] - https://www.itcreations.com/configurator/model/supermicro-as...
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This is fantastic, thank you!
The prices are great, but you may need to search across different regions for spot VM availability.
https://github.com/rcarmo/azure-stable-diffusion#cheapest-sp...
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Sounds like a botnet with extra steps
No. Founded by ex-Google engineer and whitelisted with all the major anti-virus companies. Disclosure: I'm an investor and advisor.
Perhaps you made a bad call with this one?
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Hetzner is good value, but I had a long conversation with their support, and we were separated by a common language.
my experience with hetzner's support is excellent since I've never spoken to them 8 dedicated 64t/128gb servers for 2 years, 0 cumulative seconds of downtime, perfect record.
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No. Founded by ex-Google engineer and whitelisted with all the major anti-virus companies. Disclosure: I'm an investor and advisor.
Unfortunately, the other commenters descriptions of it make it sound super shady. Perhaps you made a bad call with this one?
The other commenters are social media randos, who actually don't know WTF they're talking about. Lookup my profile and you can decide if I do.
Sometimes HN are just a herd of lazy jerks.
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Where are your videos? Encoding is a more complicated problem in that the source and destination would impact things. Bandwidth transfer can cost more than the compute on some clouds (and impact speeds). If it's on S3 it might still be best to use AWS EC2 in the same region. Oracle is definitely a good choice with 10TB free tier. Hetzner cloud likely has cheaper compute than Oracle. Upcloud has the fastest CPU.
I have videos on Google drive. For hetzner can you tell which one to buy? They have many offerings- dedicated, cloud etc.