Re:The battle of the computing clouds is intensifying
by wiz21c on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @11:33AM
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I've looked for some GPU on the web and it's super expensive to rent. I was expecting to rent that for say 50$ per month (considering I can rent some webspace for less then 10$ a month) but everything was more expensive like 600$/month (I look for entry level GPU, used just a bit, I'm a student) ... Did I look correctly ?
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Re:The battle of the computing clouds is intensifying
by dnautics on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @03:13PM
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if you want an always-on gpu for $50/mo? That's unreasonable. Consider how much "building from scratch" even a cheap "minimal" GPU unit costs (let's say 3k GPU + 1k supporting PC), whereas a cheap "building from scratch minimal webspace" is a fraction of a single CPU unit, so let's say $100-ish/unit dollars, to be really generous. A rented non-fractional GPU should be easily minimally 40x the cost of a website.
Don't expect these ratios to be authoritative; there are obviously different economies of scale and many many details I papered over, but this should just give you an idea of the back of the envelope "relative costs"; just that 5x is way out of the range you should have guessed.