Re:The Cloud Is a Prison. Can the Local-First Software Movem...
by theshrike79 on Thursday August 03, 2023 @02:08PM
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The premise was that one doesn’t already have a half a million dollar on-prem setup…
Like a bootstrapped one or two person startup. Or could I borrow your globally distributed home lab? =)
The difference here is that I can pay AWS by the hour (or even by the minute or second). I can’t hire a sysadmin like that.
I can try a few high GPU instances for 6 hours and shut them down. But if I need to buy 6 4090’s and the hardware to run them, I’m stuck with the choice and down a few tens of thousands.
Like a bootstrapped one or two person startup. Or could I borrow your globally distributed home lab? =)
The difference here is that I can pay AWS by the hour (or even by the minute or second). I can’t hire a sysadmin like that.
I can try a few high GPU instances for 6 hours and shut them down. But if I need to buy 6 4090’s and the hardware to run them, I’m stuck with the choice and down a few tens of thousands.