Dedicated server with min 8 cores and 8GB RAM for 1 week

titanicsaled

Hi,

I'm a computer science student doing some data mining work. This is a bit of an odd request but I was hoping to rent a fairly beefy dedicated server for a week. I need to run some data mining tasks that would run significantly quicker on a server with a decent CPU (or two) as opposed to my laptop.

Minimum 8 cores and 8GB RAM.

It's a bit of a long shot but it's worth a try. Obviously I'm willing to pay but I'm looking for something fairly cheap as the student budget is a bit limited.

Thanks in advance.

nullnothere

See: https://www.ovh.ie/dedicated_servers/one-week-rental.xml

RapidDedi

I can give you an E3 for a week that is not in use, it will be free of charge, pm me the os.

StealthyHosting

PM me the details on the project. If it is something worthwhile, I can loan you something beefy.

telephone

While there's some Good Samaritans, I'll leave this here for the future:

Check out the Scaleway.com workload intensive range.

Starts at €0.050/Hour for:

• 6 x86 64bit Cores

• 15GB Ram

• 200GB SSD

This would work out to €8.40 for a weeks usage. If 8 cores is a hard limit, then it would be €16.80 for a week.

goinsj2010

I know you've already got a couple of earlier offers but if your work would benefit from another server I have a E3-1241v3 machine that I could loan for a week or two. Feel free to PM me with the required OS and details on the project if you're interested.

willie

The Scaleway 15gb and 30gb vps are likely to be Xeon D-1531 like the 60gb version, i.e. you get 6 or 8 hardware threads on a machine with 6 physical cores. Because of their lower frequency, total compute speed is about like a 4-core E3. Maybe you can find a way to split your computation across multiple machines.

Harambe

Google Cloud offers a free $300 trial credit to use within the first year. In their high cpu range there's a 8 core box with 7.2GB ram for $150/mo. Can probably run that for a week and still have plenty of credits left to cover storage + outbound bandwidth.

titanicsaled

I just wanted to thank everyone that responded to this post. There are some great suggestions that I'll definitely remember for the future.

I'd also like to thank everyone that offered to loan me a machine. In the end RapidDedi lent me a server for free, I'm extremely grateful to them for that! Without it I couldn't have got all the work done.

dedicados

and what are the results?

ElliotJ

I know you've already solved your problem, but just in case someone googles this in the future, I recently had a similar problem and needed a beefy server to crunch some numbers for a few days.

My 'solution' was to extensively use Azure/Google Cloud's free signup promotions - Think $40/day sized servers. They're offering a few hundred dollars worth of credit apiece at the moment, so luckily everything worked out fine.

msg7086

If you are talking about virtual cores, you can try pm @francisco and see what they can do for you, maybe a customized quote? Their KVM dedicated slice looks promising and they should come with a prorated weekly price.

fan

Packet.net has hourly billing dedicated, not cheap but you can have $25 credit from this page (google it you can find more similar promo pages): https://www.packet.net/promo/kontena/

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BeardyUnixGuy

Thanks @Kanika, we look forward to you providing us with more LET drama