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points by ayewo 2 days ago | 0 comments

> So long as I can rent an RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell at about half a buck per hour through a European provider, ..

Mind sharing the provider’s URL?

Not necessarily an endorsement, but one of the more popular ones: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-gpu/

[–] papyrus9244 2 days ago

I understand that managing hw can be time consuming, but if you built a similar machine it would get paid off in ~18 months.

[–] nl 1 day ago

I think the point the OP was making was that you can rent this for a couple of hours when you need it, and then it makes sense. If you are using it say 2 hours a week (or even 5 hours a week) it's going to be much cheaper than building your own hardware for a long long time.

[–] senordevnyc 1 day ago

It's a little confusing from the page, but you can't actually use those hourly in terms of spinning them up on-demand for a few hours, because you pay the € 209 - 1499 setup fee when you provision one. They're just showing the monthly price broken down into an hourly price.

They're great servers, though, I have a whole fleet of them.