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Hetzner GEX44 with Nvidia GPU

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Re: Hetzner GEX44 with Nvidia GPU

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Post by samet »

They use to provide servers with Nvidia 1080 GPUs. Even though several generations of new GPUs appear, Hetzner didn't vend those new GPUs. Let's see what happens this time.

(Disclaimer: I love Hetzner and their business model/customer service.)

Re: Hetzner GEX44 with Nvidia GPU

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Post by SEJeff »

FYI do not run blockchain related software on Hetzner nodes, even their dedicated bare metal. They are likely to shut the host down.

I was running a Solana Testnet Proof of Stake validator for work and they decided to shut the host down at the network layer and refused to give us access to the host. After my employer's legal threatened them, they offered to give us access back, but to be a pain in the butt, they only gave us console login access. Luckily, it was just our Testnet validator, and we keep the keys in cold storage which we were able to recover from.

Their nodes are cheap, but beware of Hetzner. Something that they didn't mind hosting for almost 4 years they suddenly changed their minds on and shut the host down.

See: https://www.theblock.co/post/182283/1000-solana-validators-g...

Re: Hetzner GEX44 with Nvidia GPU

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Post by nabla9 »

2208 EUR per year.

  RTX™ 4000 SFF Ada Generation (20GB GDDR6 ECC)
  64 GB DDR4 
  1.92 TB (Gen4) 
  Intel® Core™ i5-13500 
  30.9 TBit total bandwidth
I think RTX 3070 is roughly equivivalent to RTX4000 20GB.

Time used to setup and maintenance makes this valuable. Otherwise you can just buy similar system and pay for electricity.

Re: Hetzner GEX44 with Nvidia GPU

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Post by krig »

SEJeff wrote: post #5

FYI do not run blockchain related software on Hetzner nodes, even their dedicated bare metal. They are likely to shut the host down. I was running a Solana Testnet Proof of Stake validator for work and they decided to shut the host down at the network layer and refused to give us access to the host. After my employer's legal threatened them, they offered to give us access back, but to be a pain in the butt, they only…

Thanks for writing about this. Makes me like Hetzner even more.

Re: Hetzner GEX44 with Nvidia GPU

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Post by vmfunction »

SEJeff wrote: post #5

FYI do not run blockchain related software on Hetzner nodes, even their dedicated bare metal. They are likely to shut the host down. I was running a Solana Testnet Proof of Stake validator for work and they decided to shut the host down at the network layer and refused to give us access to the host. After my employer's legal threatened them, they offered to give us access back, but to be a pain in the butt, they only…

They did officially stated on reddit [1] that they are not supporting crypto related hosting. Just wonder why? Is the GPU/CPU/Network related over use? Or legality related?

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/hetzner/comments/wucxs4/comment/ilf...

Re: Hetzner GEX44 with Nvidia GPU

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Post by vegardx »

vmfunction wrote: post #8
SEJeff wrote: post #5

FYI do not run blockchain related software on Hetzner nodes, even their dedicated bare metal. They are likely to shut the host down. I was running a Solana Testnet Proof of Stake validator for work and they decided to shut the host down at the network layer and refused to give us access to the host. After my employer's legal threatened them, they offered to give us access back, but to be a pain in the butt, they only…

They did officially stated on reddit [1] that they are not supporting crypto related hosting. Just wonder why? Is the GPU/CPU/Network related over use? Or legality related? [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/hetzner/comments/wucxs4/comment/ilf...

Wild guess: They use significantly more electricity than the average customer that does just about anything else with their hardware. The GPU can easily run at hundreds of watts, and when you add in the required cooling you're probably at 1.5-2x that in total power usage.

Re: Hetzner GEX44 with Nvidia GPU

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Post by tutfbhuf »

nabla9 wrote: post #6

2208 EUR per year. RTX™ 4000 SFF Ada Generation (20GB GDDR6 ECC) 64 GB DDR4 1.92 TB (Gen4) Intel® Core™ i5-13500 30.9 TBit total bandwidth I think RTX 3070 is roughly equivivalent to RTX4000 20GB. Time used to setup and maintenance makes this valuable. Otherwise you can just buy similar system and pay for electricity.

If you have a use case where you utilize Hetzner's RTX4000 GPU 24/7/365 around the clock, then it's a great deal. However, I think many people will just load some quantized LLMs into it and call it a few dozen times per day. For the latter use case, €2,200 is a bit too much, I think.
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