Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs

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  1. freebsd-outerbase

    install script for a remote-unlockable FreeBSD system with geli-encrypted root-on-zfs

    I've got a dedicated machine for $30/month. It's ancient, a xeon L5640 with 16 GB ram, and 1 TB spinning disk, but it's dedicated and it works great. Well actually, the first one stopped working well, and I got a replacement with double those specs for the same price; and the second one is working great. I also run with full disk encryption, because I don't trust their opsec on wiping drives, so that's a bit of a hassle to reboots, I have to get a console with IPMI and put in the disk password, although I saw something [1] last night that inspires me to consider the possibility of automation.

    I recommend shopping at https://lowendbox.com/ and https://lowendtalk.com/categories/offers

    [1] https://github.com/emtiu/freebsd-outerbase

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  3. ollama-open-webui

    Discontinued Self-host a ChatGPT-style web interface for Ollama 🦙

    We've got a one-liner for spinning up your own ollama UI. See https://github.com/fly-apps/ollama-open-webui

  4. skypilot

    Run, manage, and scale AI workloads on any AI infrastructure. Use one system to access & manage all AI compute (Kubernetes, Slurm, 20+ clouds, on-prem).

    Skypilot is worth a mention here:

    https://github.com/skypilot-org/skypilot

    Open source CLI to deploy multiple gpu vm’s on all major cloud providers, with an option to use spot pricing with 1 cheap vm used as a controller to always make sure you have the most inexpensive deployment available with failover and load balancing.

    It’s like beating the cloud providers at their own game I wouldn’t be surprised if they banned it.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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