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Re:Flex your computing power! by dsr_ on Thursday August 04, 2016 @06:12AM (#12224525)
The pricing seems odd.

$480/year for a $400 video card? $240/year for 3TB of disk space?

No discussion of bandwidth.

No discussion of security.

No discussion of liability.

Re:Flex your computing power! by kalleboo on Thursday August 04, 2016 @06:34AM (#12224618)
If you cut through all the abstractions, in the end what you're selling them is electricity, right?
Re:Flex your computing power! by DevNullDevice on Thursday August 04, 2016 @09:07AM (#12225201)
I have a bunch of unused CPU time on my virtualization cluster. I wonder how the power delta for full-utilization would work with the pay...
Re:Flex your computing power! by glastra on Thursday August 04, 2016 @06:45AM (#12224657)
And, depending on where you live, most probably at a loss. Here in Spain electricity is so expensive that this is probably a very bad idea.
Re:Flex your computing power! by hkjgkjy on Thursday August 04, 2016 @07:45AM (#12224856)
So teenage gamers who live with their parents and don't pay for power.
Re:Flex your computing power! by eumoria on Thursday August 04, 2016 @08:26AM (#12225020)
Or people using company workstations to siphon dollars out of electric bills. This is why bitcoin mining quickly became uneconomical unless you can get energy free or on the super cheap.
Re:Flex your computing power! by trymas on Thursday August 04, 2016 @06:39AM (#12224639)
Yup. It looks like that. You pay electricity bill for them and they get the coins.
Re:Flex your computing power! by suchflex on Thursday August 04, 2016 @10:34AM (#12225767)
Our current Beta Users earning $10+ per week reported not noticing any changes in their power bills. We advise everyone running the SuchFlex Desktop App to keep an eye on their electricity costs and to communicate any significant spikes.
Re:Flex your computing power! by dharma1 on Thursday August 04, 2016 @11:05AM (#12225969)
wow, your beta users have invented GPUs that don't use electricity ;)
Re:Flex your computing power! by suchflex on Thursday August 04, 2016 @10:30AM (#12225746)
We will be adding: FAQ section, Power Costs calculator, Security section, TOS section to our website soon. Lots of this information is currently communicated to Beta Users through emails, but we are working on consolidating and improving information flow. Thank you for your feedback.
Re:Flex your computing power! by Veratyr on Thursday August 04, 2016 @11:49AM (#12226338)
The disk space seems especially weird. Others have mentioned this but even services like Google Drive or Dropbox can give you storage at ~$8/TB so who's on the other end of this transaction, willing to pay premium prices for low end storage?
Re:Flex your computing power! by jpalomaki on Thursday August 04, 2016 @07:14AM (#12224746)
Might make sense if you want 100 or 1000 GPUs and don't want to run them 24/7. Usually all cloud computing prices tend to be pretty high if you compare them to just renting or purchasing hardware.