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how many do you need? maybe just buy your own?
by ptah 7y ago
how many do you need? maybe just buy your own?
- etaioinshrdlu 7y agoOn the order of 5-25. Interestingly, these Hetzner machines are so cheap monthly that it is much easier to buy via hetzner and they provide good networking / data center ops as well. Break even time on cost is on the order of a year.
- nurettin 7y agoBreak even? Are you generating digital tokens?
- krageon 7y agoWhy would that follow? He said "on cost", which I read as "comparing the costs of buying a video card and renting GPU time".
- nurettin 7y agoBreak even point is used as a term to describe the point your gains are equal to your initial investment, hinting that after this point, you will start making net profit.
- pedrocr 7y agoBreak even applies to the crossover point between any two options. You can break-even between renting or buying a house at some point even though you are even between two options that cost you money.
- ALittleLight 7y agoI interpreted that as meaning you'd have to rent one for a year to break even buying the hardware.