![]() ![]() The wierd economic of it all is that is cost the same to let 1 instance render for 50 hours or let 50 instances render for 1 hour so it scales quite nicely! And no need for windows licences… it’s included in the hourly price. ![]() It’s quite some work to setup, mostly to get a VPN connection from LAN into the cloud, but when that’s done it quite easy and you can just use backburner like you normally would. Spot instances can come and go anytime but in reality I’ve never seen the plug being pulled on one of them but if that happens it doesn’t matter much, you can always fallback on the normal ones but that will cost a bit more)Ī few weeks ago I had 30 8-core instances running for a grand total of just under 7$ an hour… it’s a steal (see attached image, btw why is there such a small allowed size for attached images here?)Ĭost when not in use: about 4$ a month for storing the AMI diskimage so unlike a real hardware farm it doesn’t loose value/money when it’s doing nothing. $0.21 per 8-core/8GB machine an hour… (overcapacity ‘spot’ price. $0.45 per hour for the manager node (normal price) + Yep it’s the Amazon thingy I use it a lot, cost wise it’s brilliant: To be honest our render farm is small but cost 25k at the time and the thought of updating it does worry me. Could you tell me more please ! Is this the Amazon thingy ? Do you use it and how, do the costs compare with purchasing servers and running then yourself. ![]()
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