r/vastai

I just built a new gpu rig to rent out on Vast. Currently the rig is chillin in my garage, which is safe, but I can't help but imagine what could happen if someone broke into my house or if there was a fire, or electrical surge.

Does anybody have insurance for their rigs? I looked at getting a Business Owners Policy through Geico, but idk if that will cover everything I want. I could get insurance through where I bought the hardware, but it costs thousands for only 1 gpu, for 3 years just for the insurance. My quote form Geico was less than $50/month.

Thoughts?

Currently I need about 4-8x RTX 5090 that could run for a few days reliably and with good internet bandwidth. Contact me if you have instances that are available probably about 3$/hour for 8 gpus

Hey everyone,

I'm looking into building/buying a high-density node with 8x NVIDIA V100 32GB GPUs (256GB VRAM total) aimed at decentralized rental platforms (Vast.ai, Akash) and running local model fine-tuning.

For anyone hosting multi-V100 32GB rigs:

How is the current rental demand and fill rate for full 8x 32GB V100 nodes?

What average rate ($/hr per GPU or full node) are you realistically seeing?

Any thermal or power management pitfalls for an 8-card V100 setup I should keep in mind?

Thanks for any insights!

I have one 4070 ti super (16 vram) GPU, 32 gb Ram, 1tb nmve ssd, 1gb symmetric internet without cgnet and 99.82% of Reliability. It's recommended to upgrade to 64gb? They have only rented my machine for 1 to 3 days. How can I rent my machine for long days?

I am currently hosting 3 RTX 5090 machines, and am looking for ways to get verified faster and optimize earnings. Each machine has either i9-14900KF or Ryzen 9 9950X3D, a 64GB RAM, and 2TB SSD (2GB-5GB/s). My internet speed is 600Mbps/550Mbps. It has been one week since I started hosting, and none of the machines are verified. Since it doesn't make much financial sense to leave them unoccuppied all the time for verification purpose, I started attracting offers by setting the prices low (0.30-0.40), while leaving the duration time medium length (10days).

I wonder: should I take a break after the 10 days to get verified first? If so, how long should I typically wait for verification before setting the prices low again to attract offers?

Does the CPU matter or is CPU a filtering criteria for renters typically when they search? Obviously both of my CPUs are 6GHz while majority of machines on the market are lower speed. Should I charge a premium for the CPU?

Interruptible bids: where can I find statistics on machines that are successfully rented on interruptible bids? All the websites and machine metrics don't seem to separate bidding price from the on-demand price, and no statistics on their occupancy rates. Do you find bidding a good way to attract competitive offers? How do you set the minimal bidding price and does the bid price sometime even exceed the on-demand price? I guess for renters they have no way to see both the on-demand and bidding price for the same machine, since their search results are on separate webpages.