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Re:GPUs Are Now Available for Google Compute Engine and Clou... by mastazi on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @07:54PM (#13701872)
> the cost per cpu is really competitive in cloud offerings

> Cpu costs may be something 5 to 10 times more expensive in the cloud

So are CPUs more or less expensive in the cloud?

Also I assume by "cloud offerings" you mean AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and the like, and by "regular hosting providers" you mean GoDaddy, BlueHost and the like? Or perhaps you mean Paas vs Saas offerings?

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Re:GPUs Are Now Available for Google Compute Engine and Clou... by hyperknot on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @08:15PM (#13702003)
I believe he means OVH (+Kimsufi, Soyoustart), Online.net, and Hetzner for example.

If you are interested in what 1/100th of AWS price looks, have a look at Online's server order page for example [1].

[1] https://console.online.net/en/order/server

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Re:GPUs Are Now Available for Google Compute Engine and Clou... by gorodetsky on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @11:29PM (#13703005)
Yes and no: yes you can get a Quad-Core 64GB RAM + SSD server for $55/month (source: https://www.hetzner.de/de/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex51ss...). But there's one more spec that matters: networking. It takes completely different amount of effort to provide 1Gbps connectivity versus 40Gbps per server.

Most of the providers like Hetzner/OVH provide former, while GCE provides the latter. I'm not saying it's bad, in fact for most of the people 1Gbps would be more than enough. But it's not something that is fair to omit.

Disclaimer: I don't work for Google, just from my experience.

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Re:GPUs Are Now Available for Google Compute Engine and Clou... by jorangreef on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @04:27AM (#13704283)
OVH offer 1Gbps, 10Gbps and 40Gbps plans: https://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/storage/

I am sure Hetzner would be able to offer the same as an add-on if you contacted them directly.

That being said, you would continue to pay orders of magnitude less for your bandwidth then you would at Google or AWS. There's a bubble in cloud bandwidth pricing, and I don't think it's value-related.

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Re:GPUs Are Now Available for Google Compute Engine and Clou... by bsaul on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @06:51AM (#13704814)
Cpu are more expensive on google cloud than ovh, but that is expected. I'm ok to pay x2 or even x5 for the agility and the power those platform offer (especially when you need autoscaling up and down every single day).

What i don't understand is the network cost factor of x100 to x1000

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