<![CDATA[Does anyone know of a cloud provider who offers very cheap rates (i.e. lower than Hetzner) in exchange for extremely low uptime, e.g. &lt;50%?]]>Does anyone know of a cloud provider who offers very cheap rates (i.e. lower than Hetzner) in exchange for extremely low uptime, e.g. <50%?

In times of solar it seems it would make sense to just keep old(ish) servers connected and only power them up when electricity is free (or negative even).

I have a compute workload which I expect to complete in ~150days(!); if I could get cheap compute anywhen before that, I'd pay for it. [And I expect to have future workloads which can be delayed 2 days without much trouble.]

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/596fd106-fb8c-4c69-a78d-cd13932722c4/does-anyone-know-of-a-cloud-provider-who-offers-very-cheap-rates-i.e.-lower-than-hetzner-in-exchange-for-extremely-low-uptime-e.g.-lt-50RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 08:26:49 GMTTue, 05 May 2026 22:32:13 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone know of a cloud provider who offers very cheap rates (i.e. lower than Hetzner) in exchange for extremely low uptime, e.g. &lt;50%? on Wed, 06 May 2026 20:11:17 GMT]]>@txt_file In my case, each chunk is: 2-60 minutes (80% < 15minutes), 1 cpu core, <8GB RAM. Random crashes are fine (any ongoing chunks of work would have to be restarted).

I think many SaaS companies have such tasks (if only they looked). E.g. cassandra compactions could be done this way (with a bit of patching, though).

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/drahflow/statuses/116529448742112989https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/drahflow/statuses/116529448742112989Wed, 06 May 2026 20:11:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Does anyone know of a cloud provider who offers very cheap rates (i.e. lower than Hetzner) in exchange for extremely low uptime, e.g. &lt;50%? on Wed, 06 May 2026 17:46:49 GMT]]>@drahflow how big are the computational chunks (CPU time, system memory, …)

As I understand you have to compute the task in junks/parts as the computing computer might turn off at any time.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/txt_file/statuses/116528880634643545https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://chaos.social/users/txt_file/statuses/116528880634643545Wed, 06 May 2026 17:46:49 GMT