Need advice on pay-as-you-go CPU Servers

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• DP Administrator, The Domain Guy

  November 2019

  Vultr?

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• Jord Moderator, Host Rep, Veteran, Megathread Squad

  November 2019

  Did anyone mention Hetzner?

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• sanvit Member

  November 2019

  Hetzner and Lunanode (dedicated vCPU/compute optimized) has per hour billing too

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• ITLabs Member

  November 2019

  @Jord said:
  Did anyone mention Hetzner?

  Hetzner

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• dahartigan Member

  November 2019

  Hetzner of course

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• donko Member

  November 2019

  Hetzner

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• dahartigan Member

  November 2019 edited November 2019

  On a more serious note, LunaNode is excellent value and their performance and stability is even better. They have Canada and France options. $USD 3.50/mo gets you started.

  BinaryLane for Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Perth in Australia. Unbeatable low-end value, again, excellent performance and stability. $AUD 4/mo gets you a seat on a server in Brisbane. Blows my mind.

  I would recommend both those providers all day long. My go-to for "I really need this shit to work and not worry about it going offline" projects.

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• poisson Member

  November 2019

  @Creling said:
  Hi guys:
  I will do some NLP work and need to training my models, could you help advice me some providers on pay-as-you-go CPU Servers? Or do you know some platforms serve clients like me? No GPU requirement.

  Maybe OVH is a choice, if any others?

  Thank you for your help

  Do you have a large dataset? If you do, you might take a really long time without a dedicated GPU, and I am not sure if cloud providers have any limits on CPU usage.
• dahartigan Member

  November 2019

  @poisson said:

  @Creling said:
  Hi guys:
  I will do some NLP work and need to training my models, could you help advice me some providers on pay-as-you-go CPU Servers? Or do you know some platforms serve clients like me? No GPU requirement.

  Maybe OVH is a choice, if any others?

  Thank you for your help

  Do you have a large dataset? If you do, you might take a really long time without a dedicated GPU, and I am not sure if cloud providers have any limits on CPU usage.

  LunaNode gives you the option to pay extra for dedicated use of CPU, it's actually kinda neat. I did that so I could transcode some large videos without abusing the node, and it worked out nicely. Not even expensive either.

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• Creling Member

  November 2019 edited November 2019

  dahartigan said: LunaNode gives you the option to pay extra for dedicated use of CPU, it's actually kinda neat. I did that so I could transcode some large videos without abusing the node, and it worked out nicely. Not even expensive either.

  thanks, maybe I will try LonaNode Compute-Optimized Virtual Machines, btw, do you know which cpu they use?
• Creling Member

  November 2019

  @Jord said:
  Did anyone mention Hetzner?

  ah, yes, I happen to have a Hetzner account 😄
• Creling Member

  November 2019

  poisson said: Do you have a large dataset? If you do, you might take a really long time without a dedicated GPU, and I am not sure if cloud providers have any limits on CPU usage.

  ah, some effective algorithm like gensim will not cost GPU resource 😜. No GPU is not to purse cheap, but to fit my need. 😝
• dahartigan Member

  November 2019

  @Creling said:

  dahartigan said: LunaNode gives you the option to pay extra for dedicated use of CPU, it's actually kinda neat. I did that so I could transcode some large videos without abusing the node, and it worked out nicely. Not even expensive either.

  thanks, maybe I will try LonaNode Compute-Optimized Virtual Machines, btw, do you know which cpu they use?

  $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
  processor       : 0
  vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
  cpu family      : 6
  model           : 62
  model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v2 @ 3.00GHz
  stepping        : 4
  microcode       : 0x1
  cpu MHz         : 2999.998
  cache size      : 25600 KB
  physical id     : 0
  siblings        : 1
  core id         : 0
  cpu cores       : 1
  apicid          : 0
  initial apicid  : 0
  fpu             : yes
  fpu_exception   : yes
  cpuid level     : 13
  wp              : yes
  flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon rep_good nopl cpuid tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm pti tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase tsc_adjust smep erms xsaveopt
  bugs            : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf mds swapgs
  bogomips        : 5999.99
  clflush size    : 64
  cache_alignment : 64
  address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
  power management:
  

  I hope that helps. Not sure if their entire fleet is identical though. Maybe @perennate can shed some light :-)

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• poisson Member

  November 2019

  @Creling said:

  poisson said: Do you have a large dataset? If you do, you might take a really long time without a dedicated GPU, and I am not sure if cloud providers have any limits on CPU usage.

  ah, some effective algorithm like gensim will not cost GPU resource 😜. No GPU is not to purse cheap, but to fit my need. 😝

  Oh. I will check out gensim. Wasn't aware of non-GPU based NLP toolkits; I am too used to using GPU-based ones.
• eva2000 Veteran

  November 2019

  @Creling said:
  Hi guys:
  I will do some NLP work and need to training my models, could you help advice me some providers on pay-as-you-go CPU Servers? Or do you know some platforms serve clients like me? No GPU requirement.

  Maybe OVH is a choice, if any others?

  Thank you for your help

  for hourly bare metal dedicated with exotic network and gpu configs check out packet.net https://www.packet.com/cloud/servers/

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• Creling Member

  November 2019

  eva2000 said: for hourly bare metal dedicated with exotic network and gpu configs check out packet.net https://www.packet.com/cloud/servers/

  happy to see such a platform, I will mark it.
• Creling Member

  November 2019 edited November 2019

  poisson said: Oh. I will check out gensim. Wasn't aware of non-GPU based NLP toolkits; I am too used to using GPU-based ones.

  maybe just in some special cases, I will do some word2vec.

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• dodheimsgard Veteran

  November 2019

  Scaleway have baremetal server with per hour pricing so you can rent whole powerfull server for 1 hour for cheap.
  On other hand if you plan to do alot stuff monthly renting server may be cheaper option.
  Scaleway for example have server for around 329 euro a month (in hourly billing). You could get similar server when it comes to CPU foraround $100 a month. Sometines even cheaper.

  hetzner cloud is also good when it comes to prive/performance ratio
• poisson Member

  November 2019

  @Creling if you want free Upcloud credits I can give you some to fire up their 20 core servers for 1.5 days

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• HostinganID Barred

  November 2019

  You can try hetzner or linode (only if you need asian location)

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• Creling Member

  November 2019

  poisson said: @Creling if you want free Upcloud credits I can give you some to fire up their 20 core servers for 1.5 days

  hhhh, 0.5 day will be enough for trialing. I might pm you when I need it. thank you 2333
• masedi Member

  November 2019

  Upcloud, but they asked for CC/DC
• digitalbs Member

  November 2019

  Wholesaleinternet provide hourly charged servers, the last one that I saw started from like 7 cents, this was yesterday though and dont know if its still there.