Re:Ask HN: Is anyone using Cloud Dev Environments (e.g. Code...
by doctorpangloss on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @05:36PM
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The commenter posted about a self-installed machine. Also, colocating GPU servers is expensive, because it's billed at roughly $75 per amp per month, and a typical machine with a single 280W GPU will use about 5 amps at peak.
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone using Cloud Dev Environments (e.g. Code...
by hzia on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @05:37PM
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That sounds really low. Do you mind sharing where you rent your racks from?
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone using Cloud Dev Environments (e.g. Code...
by jasonjayr on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @05:44PM
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I was thinking the same. I'm paying about $1600/mo for a 42U rack, 2 x 30A Feeds, and 60mb/s 95th percentile, ipv4 + ipv6
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone using Cloud Dev Environments (e.g. Code...
by ctvo on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @05:46PM
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> The workstation has fast 2TB NVMe and 64gb of ram, 16 cores and a RTX GPU.
> $60/yr vs thousands of $ upfront for a comparable desktop or notebook machine.
I don't think we're talking about the same things here.
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone using Cloud Dev Environments (e.g. Code...
by fswd on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @10:57PM
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I paid $5000 for the workstation (2019) and upgraded to NVMe later, and I pay $0 for the datacenter because I have referred clients to their business and established a relationship over the years. Because when people find out how much cheaper it is to skip the cloud, they switch but don't know where to go.
I could upgrade to dual 2.5 GigE but I have nothing that needs that much bandwidth. I can download 30gb from hugging face in a few minutes which doesn't bother me.
The DC is about to onboard another client of mine, a startup that ran on AWS credits for 9 months. They are upgrading to a 64 core 2TB ram box that was an extra the DC had, for $3500, which will probably go into the rack next to mine.
Re:Ask HN: Is anyone using Cloud Dev Environments (e.g. Code...
by siamese_puff on Wednesday October 18, 2023 @07:55PM
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Where are you seeing these prices? OVH seems way more than what you’re saying, but might be looking at the wrong thing
Not to mention the superior network connectivity (10 gigabit/s). In fact, there are no 10gbps options from the common last mile carriers available at any price (AT&T, Crapcast). And if they did offer it, it'd probably be $500USD/mo+ just for Internet.
AT&T has a 5gbps fiber plan available for $250USD+/mo, but there are very few (>10 fractional portions of cities nationally) areas where it is offered today.
If you have a strong enough desire for cost-effective, really fucking fast Internet for a fair price, move to Korea. In .kr you can get 10gig for something like $30-50USD/mo.