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I checked the price of a A100, and its costs 15k? Is that right?
by pelasaco 4y ago
I checked the price of a A100, and its costs 15k? Is that right?
- alchemist1e9 4y agoAnd $2.25 per hour on 1 year reservation means 8,760 hours x 2.25 = $19,710 rent for the year. Not a bad yield for the provider at all, but makes sense given overheads and ROI expected.
- pelasaco 4y agoyes, specially that you don't have to deal with buying it, maintaining it, etc...
- sroussey 4y agoNot sure why people are so scared of this (in general). Yes, it’s a pain, but only an occasional pain. I’ve had servers locked up in a cage for years without seeing them. And the cost for bandwidth has plummeted over the last two decades. (Not at AWS, lol)
- Sebb767 4y agoThe problem isn't the good times, the problem is when something happens in the middle of the night, when a RAM stick goes bad or when you suddenly need triple the compute power. Usually, you get to feel the pain when you need it the least. I'm hosting a lot of stuff myself on my own hardware, so I do sympathize with this argument, but in a time>>money situation, going to the cloud makes a lot of sense.
- pelasaco 4y agoexactly, you pay for the case where a down time on Sunday happens or you are in vacation out of the city and something happens.. I had this issue back in the days with my bitcoin miners.. Always when I was out of the city, one of them went down and I wanted to go back ASAP
- rictic 4y agoCost of power usage is marginal compared to that too: 300W per A100 * 8766 hours per year * $0.12 per kWh = $316 to power an A100 for a year