It's speculated that ChatGPT uses 8x A100s, which flips the conclusion. Although the ChatGPT optimizations done to reduce costs could have also reduced the number of GPUs needed to run it.
And $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.
Not 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)
The 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.
exactly, 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
In my experience running the same prompt always get's different results. Maybe they cache between different people but I'm not sure that'd be worth the cache space at that point? although 8x A100s is a lot to not have caching...
