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I bought a second hand Xeon E3-1246 v3 (8 VCPU), 16GB memory for $250 on ebay. That's less than it costs to rent an a1.xlarge for 6 months. Hardware is so cheap
by rb808 8y ago
I bought a second hand Xeon E3-1246 v3 (8 VCPU), 16GB memory for $250 on ebay. That's less than it costs to rent an a1.xlarge for 6 months. Hardware is so cheap now, esp with SSDs and memory getting cheaper. Don't automatically rent!
- vidarh 8y agoOr if you're going to rent, consider dedicated hosting providers too. Providers like Hetzner often work out far cheaper (especially if you're doing anything requiring a lot of outbound bandwidth). AWS is great for convenience when you can afford it, but it is a really expensive solution, even when factoring in the extra things you have to deal with to rent, lease or buy dedicated servers.
- riku_iki 8y agoSadly no major dedicated provider offers machines with 8 GPUs..