Hourly billed VDS/Dedi without 20$ pre-paid upfront?

Jab · September 2023

Do you guys know any (cheap of course) hourly billed VDS/Dedi with smallish pre-paid up front?

I just need something that I can hammer down 100% CPU for like 3 hours on 16 cores modern CPU.
I am pre-generating OSM map tiles and it takes like 3h on my home Ryzen 5900X and last few times I did like that... but it's kinda hot here at the moment and I am not looking into CPU-cooking-myself.

Hourly is a must - if that is gonna cost me like 1$ I don't really looking into putting 20$ up-front - I pre-generate tiles like once a 3 months - this would last time uhmm 5 years.

virtua.cloud looks nice, but they wanted 20€ up-front
I registered somewhere else and they wanted 50$ up-front.

So - if anyone is using any hourly thing with dedicated cores can you check what is the minimal up-front pre-paid needed?

Or idk, you know some crazy providers giving a nice dedi for 24 hours for 1$ - this will work too

corbpie · September 2023

GTHost you can rent dedicated servers from 1-10 days periods

FrankZ · September 2023

Would a vultr CPU Optimized instance work for you ?
16 vCPU, 32 GB, 8.00 TB, 300 GB, $0.476 /hr
I have a bit of credit there so I can spring for the $2

crunchbits · September 2023

@Jab said:
Do you guys know any (cheap of course) hourly billed VDS/Dedi with smallish pre-paid up front?

I just need something that I can hammer down 100% CPU for like 3 hours on 16 cores modern CPU.
I am pre-generating OSM map tiles and it takes like 3h on my home Ryzen 5900X and last few times I did like that... but it's kinda hot here at the moment and I am not looking into CPU-cooking-myself.

Hourly is a must - if that is gonna cost me like 1$ I don't really looking into putting 20$ up-front - I pre-generate tiles like once a 3 months - this would last time uhmm 5 years.

virtua.cloud looks nice, but they wanted 20€ up-front
I registered somewhere else and they wanted 50$ up-front.

So - if anyone is using any hourly thing with dedicated cores can you check what is the minimal up-front pre-paid needed?

Or idk, you know some crazy providers giving a nice dedi for 24 hours for 1$ - this will work too

How powerful does it need to be? Have some idle resources you could use for a day. I have to charge $0.01 just so your signature gets updated

Jab · September 2023

@corbpie said:
GTHost you can rent dedicated servers from 1-10 days periods

Thanks, I will take a look.

@FrankZ said:
Would a vultr CPU Optimized instance work for you ?
16 vCPU, 32 GB, 8.00 TB, 300 GB, $0.476 /hr
I have a bit of credit there so I can spring for the $2

Nononono, thanks for the offer, but that sounds like potential issue if like you go offline and it ends with 48h uptime :-D
Plus Vultr would be probably mad.

@crunchbits said:
How powerful does it need to be? Have some idle resources you could use for a day. I have to charge $0.01 just so your signature gets updated

At least RYZEN 11 7689X4K.

Thanks for the offer, but I would feel bad with taking advantage of this - yours cost for this thing would be shit-ton more than this is worth
Idling is much cheaper than 100% CPU usage plus all the manual admin time to set it up that you could spend on getting the GPU VDS running even more smooth.

playing Starfield I mean.

FrankZ · September 2023

There are some dedicated servers by the hour at nocix, the deposit minimum appears to be $10 USD.
https://www.nocix.net/dedicated/

shelfchair · September 2023

You could try https://vast.ai, sometimes they have node that have a good CPU. $5 minimum deposit

Ympker · September 2023

https://www.cherryservers.com/pricing/dedicated-servers seems to have hourly billed dedicated servers. Couldn't find anything about deposit.

yoursunny · September 2023

I used to rent Scaleway.
No deposit, credit card is charged after usage at end of month.
Production series, 16-core EPYC 7543 dedicated and 64GB RAM instance costs €0.59/hour.

If I need such resource again, I would use TensorDock because @lentro gave me some free credits and I haven't spent them yet.
Minimum deposit is $5.
CPU-only, 4-core EPYC Milan dedicated and 16GB RAM instance costs $0.172/hour.
Theoretically the platform supports up to 44 cores with proportional pricing, but there's no button in my account.

sanvit · September 2023

@Jab said: Plus Vultr would be probably mad.

It seems like Optimized Cloud Compute lineup is dedicated, so i'm pretty sure they're not going to be mad.

Jab · September 2023

@sanvit said:

@Jab said: Plus Vultr would be probably mad.

It seems like Optimized Cloud Compute lineup is dedicated, so i'm pretty sure they're not going to be mad.

I more like mean Vultr will be mad that someone else is running that shit on Franks account and they lost 'potential' sale - I don't really want to throw Frank under the bus and get his account blocked or something for trying to help. TOS most likely says no.

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Thanks rest for links I will investigate in the evening

covent · September 2023

Vultr bare metal is hourly billed, easiest way to handle this kind of small jobs

rubenmdh · September 2023

Doesn't Hetzner have dedicated vCPU plans by the hour too? These use EPYC CPUs

Jab · September 2023

@rubenmdh said:
Doesn't Hetzner have dedicated vCPU plans by the hour too? These use EPYC CPUs

Last time I need a VPS for a day I tried Hetzner, they deemed me a flight risk and wanted passport scan (fuck no) or 20€ up front via PayPal (that is what I am trying to avoid in first place) so Hetzner is out.

Jab · September 2023

Fuck, did ID to Hetzner - I will need another VPS for few days later, so...
But now I damn confused - I said it takes like 3h on my home 5900X [12 cores, 24 threads]?

13 hours for 8 threadscores on EPYC Milan and still running...
I guess I should try the 16 threadscores non-dedicated VPS later despite my better judgement?

Clearly CPU bottleneck - I guess I need moar moar moar cores.

rattlecattle · September 2023

RamNode has VDS starting from $0.075/hr. Dedicated CPU.

As per the docs minimum $3 needs to be paid upfront.

Jab · September 2023

@Jab said: But now I damn confused - I said it takes like 3h on my home 5900X [12 cores, 24 threads]?

13 hours for 8 threadscores on EPYC Milan and still running...

HINT:
Don't be an idiot, read the changelog. There was an update to openstreetmap-carto and you need to semi-manually load indexes to database Attempting to render without them will result in abysmal performance. - after running for 15 hours and getting like 30% workload done I've added the indexes and it took ~2h to do everything from scratch.

Hourly billed VDS/Dedi without 20$ pre-paid upfront?

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