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Cheapest place to get a lot of CPU for nonstop video encoding (dedicated server)
I've read some older threads, but so far the best I've found is:
Scaleway cloud servers, 8 supposedly dedicated Xeon D-1531 cores for $24/month. I read another discussion on let indicating they aren't really dedicated? But if they wanna claim they are they can't complain when I run them 100% 24/7 ye?
Nocix 2x Xeon E5-2670 for $70/month
Is there anything else out there? I may need to encode ~5tb/video per month
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That nocix deal has a lot of cpu power
I don't know if you can do better than that
What's the budget. Have you considered Colo?
I'd probably go for a Hetzner i7-3770 at $27 a month or so ex VAT, or a little more for an E3-1245v2. Depending on codecs etc. 5TB is probably doable. Otherwise look into a GPU machine. Hetzner has one of those too, though more expensive, and Dedispec also has some.
The D-1531 has 6 cores (12 threads) and about the same total speed as the 4-core i7-3770 which runs at faster clock. So the 8 "core" scaleway offer is really about 3 i7 cores, and I don't think they're actually dedicated unless you get the 120GB, 12 "core" instance ($$$$).
Time4vps is fairly cheap but not full dedicated either. But you get quite a lot of dedicated resources for a low price
I'm using Hetzner i7-3770, it matches your requirement perfectly
Yeah I'm honestly really happy with what I've found, just figured I would throw it out there on the off chance there's something I missed or to save others time
I have actually, but I'm not sure if I'm that committed to the project I'm working on haha. Maybe down the road
Thanks for the breakdown on that, I'll look more into hetzner
Or get yourself some X5650 and a fast Internet?
nocix.net has i7-3770 for 7 cents an hour so you could try one for a while to test its conversion speed.
It's crazy how cheap you could put together something for with parts from ebay, sadly I have comcast 1tb data cap not google fiber
Dem slices from @francisco are tasty, no?
But, you need a dedi for transcode, as the hardware acceleration is much needed.
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/cpu-charts-2015/-25-Handbrake,3716.html
They are great as small VM's, but not for this level of CPU slamming. You really want dedis for this.
That's awesome, I didn't see that earlier
Looks like another +1 for the i7
i7 Game from OVH is a good choice, or a hetzner server bidding if there is one
You can encode as much as you want at Scaleway, burn the cpu, I have tested, they say nothing, you can also seed torrents, they never complain.
But aren't very fast though.
How does Nocix "7 cents per hour" works, should you pay at the start, or they take money from card every x hours/days/weeks?
Just wondering, what would you be using to encode - it may work out cheaper to use a render farm
Go big or go home: https://support.heymman.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=159
4 x E7-4870 (40 cores / 80 threads) | 512 GB RAM | 2TB SSD | Unmetered 1Gbps | $300 p/m
a hetzner with an e3 or i7 is perfect for this and very cheap
This is good to know, makes them by far the cheapest. $24/month for 8 D-1531 cores isn't gonna be beat by anyone else. IDK how they can afford to offer it for so cheap
It is a 6-core CPU though and you can't dualsocket them according to https://ark.intel.com/products/91203/Intel-Xeon-Processor-D-1531-9M-Cache-2_20-GHz
I have my doubts on how dedicated these are really.
That's 8 threads and they're not dedicated. It's a 6 core cpu with 12 threads so you're sharing it. That said, there might not be many users.
That 4x e7-4870 is a beefy machine with a ton of ram, but in raw cpu it's probably about 3x the speed of an E3 and costs 10x as much, so for something as low memory and easily parallelizeable as transcoding, you're better off getting several E3's and spreading the workload across them.
Scaleway claims that the resources are dedicated though, do you think they aren't?
Are you talking about the C2L? That's a genuine, dedicated, 8 core machine for 24/month, but it's an Atom C2750, not a D-1531. It's maybe 40% of the total speed of a D-1531.
i7-4790k 16GB of RAM and "120GB" SSD for $49.99 USD at SoYouStart in France and North America, https://www.soyoustart.com/us/game-servers/ limited time offer, I can highly recommend from my personal experience.
I have "120GB" in quotes as I bought one that was supposed to be a 120gb ssd but got a 240gb ssd instead, no complaints there at all, you may get lucky and get a bigger than 120gb ssd as well