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Oracle Cloud is a bad product and I wouldn't recommend. I'm guessing Oracle practically gifted OpenAI compute to make this possible and that this announcement i
by Someone1234 2y ago
Oracle Cloud is a bad product and I wouldn't recommend. I'm guessing Oracle practically gifted OpenAI compute to make this possible and that this announcement is the whole purpose (i.e. "look at us, we're equal to AWS/Azure!!! OpenAI runs here!!!").
Oracle and Google Cloud have been doing this stuff constantly.
- mikeocool 2y agoGiven that Microsoft and Google are already giving away huge amounts of compute to AI companies, Oracle must be outright paying them to do this.
- chucke1992 2y agoWell, Microsoft is also using Oracle cloud. I mean, somebody has to use Oracle cloud after all lol
- crowcroft 2y agoI've found Oracle's free tier quite generous. I guess OpenAI does as well.
- cjk2 2y agoIt's sort of like a crack dealer's free tier. You know it's going to end miserably but you just can't help yourself.
- ignoramous 2y ago> a crack dealer's free tier Pretty sure GCP & AWS employ a lot of ex-Oracle people.
- sourcecodeplz 2y agoNot necessarily, use it for testing only (not production) and you will be fine.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 2y agoI run a little kube cluster on it that serves as the brain for my home lab on it and it’s been cranking along just fine for the better part of half a year. It’s all IaC and ephemeral so if it died tomorrow I could just restart it. Quite generous for $0
- ls612 2y agoCan you feasibly run a homelab C&C server on the free tier of any of the big 3?
- SOLAR_FIELDS 2y agoIt’s possible to run a single node cluster on GCP for almost free, especially if you’re creative with spot instance. But afaik, not really otherwise. OCI is far and away more generous, giving you 4 dedicated always on nodes, which is just enough to run a decent mini cluster
- delecti 2y agoI know you're talking about the cloud offerings, but the idea of using just a little bit of crack as "not production" is hilarious to me.
- bayindirh 2y agoI also have a couple of ARM servers there, nothing fancy. The internal networks and machine are extremely snappy for what they provide. Even the containers I threw in run great. If you need small needs, it's a good provider. The dashboard is very convoluted, though.
- Havoc 2y agoMines been running fine for years now
- pryelluw 2y agoHow much crack do you do a day?
- CyberDildonics 2y agoWhere do live that people are giving away crack?
- renewiltord 2y agoYeah, I use their free tier. At $0 it's the best offering. But I end up with racknerd for just raw Linux machine that I manage myself with `iptables` and friends.
- dylan604 2y agoI'm guessing the free tier available to OAI is not the same free tier available to anyone else.
- arresin 2y agoI’ve heard of people being cut off without warning on the free tier.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 2y agoYes. Not only are there bad actors, but oracle aggressively culls underutilized instances. If you sign up and attach your billing info you won’t get that happening to you. I know, it sounds silly, but once I did that I had no issues. It’s difficult to even get instances provisioned if you don’t do that, it’s really only possible by having a script that runs and continually retries/requests instances. I’ve had my billing info tied to it and never had an issue with being charged or having instances deprovisioned the entire half year I’ve been using it.
- lostmsu 2y agoThey've been out of instances for years on free tier now. E.g. there is no free Ampere available anymore effectively.
- jml78 2y agoI used their free tier. Didn’t meet my needs. Tried to delete my account. It fails to delete my tenent, can’t talk to support because it is free tier. Email support refused to help. Told me to pay to talk to support. So they want me to pay so I can have them delete my account.
- ignoramous 2y ago> "look at us, we're equal to AWS/Azure!!! OpenAI runs here!!!" Possible, as they have lost deals even in countries where they enjoy MFN: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/oracle-ceo-confused-that-google-and-aws-beat-them-to-israels-12-billion-nimbus-tender/ https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/oracle-ceo-confus... / https://archive.is/zO35B https://archive.is/zO35B
- tmpz22 2y agoTIL MFN: Most-Favored-Nation Wikipedia: > In international economic relations and international politics, most favoured nation is a status or level of treatment accorded by one state to another in international trade.
- tiffanyh 2y agoHave you actually used it?
- qudat 2y agoWe run https://pico.sh https://pico.sh on their free tier, can’t complain about our experience.
- 29athrowaway 2y agoThey just happen to have many GPUs and a SLA, the rest doesn't matter.
- mardifoufs 2y agoWhat's bad about their cloud product? Also, GCP is way better than azure, so it's not a question of equality.
- openmajestic 2y agoI've run large GPU clusters on OCI, quite happily. The hardware and interconnects are very good - NVIDIA has a good relationship with them because they are one of the clouds not making their own silicon. GPU clusters are Oracle's path to breaking into top tier of the clouds and IMO they do it well. It's the high-level services where OCI is worth avoiding. Even core tech like object storage has been a problem.
- Two4 2y agoOpen Container Initiative?
- openmajestic 2y agoOracle Cloud Infrastructure