Guides and explainers
Distributed GPU marketplaces or data center GPU clouds
Community GPU marketplaces and provider-run data center clouds differ in who controls the machine, and that shapes reliability, interruption, privacy, assistance and workload fit.
Egress fees and how to reduce them
Egress fees are charges for data leaving a provider's network, and how a provider prices them shapes what your bill looks like.
Cloud GPUs
GPU Cloud Providers: The Company Behind the Platform
A provider's founding year, headquarters country, legal entity and support channels tell you who you are actually contracting with, and they are the first filter to apply before price and hardware.
Cloud GPUs
GPU Cloud Hardware and Regions: Comparing Accelerators, Interconnect and Footprint
A section by section method for comparing GPU cloud providers on accelerator lists, entry plans, interconnect and regions, using named providers as worked examples.
Dedicated and bare metal servers
How to Choose Dedicated and Bare Metal Servers
Compare dedicated and bare metal servers on billing unit, price, bandwidth and storage quotas, uptime commitments and accelerator features, using SberCloud and Aruba as worked examples.
Block storage
How to choose block storage: price, limits and reliability
Block storage decisions come down to storage type coverage, price per gigabyte per month, egress fees and free allowances, bundled disk, bandwidth and compliance, and this guide walks that comparison step by step.
CDN
How to Choose a CDN Without Guessing at the Price
A step by step method for comparing CDNs on egress price, bandwidth allowances, entry plan cost, and the traffic, request and uptime figures that decide the bill.
Cloud free tiers
How to Choose a Cloud Free Tier
Free tiers look similar on the surface, so compare them by entry price and billing period, then by quotas, footprint, support and certifications.
Managed databases
How to Choose Managed Databases
Managed database comparisons come down to billing unit, quotas, engine support and uptime commitments, and those are the rows to check on every provider page before you pick a plan.
Egress and bandwidth pricing
How to choose egress and bandwidth pricing
Egress costs reward a different habit of traffic than compute does, so compare included allowances, per gigabyte rates and plan pricing side by side before you pick a provider.
Cloud GPUs
How to Choose Cloud GPUs
Cloud GPUs differ most in hourly floor, billing granularity, hardware range, free allowances and uptime commitment, so compare them criterion by criterion rather than on the headline rate alone.
Managed Kubernetes
How to Choose Managed Kubernetes: Price, Limits and Reliability
A step-by-step way to compare managed Kubernetes providers on control plane cost, node pricing, limits, support and reliability, with worked pricing examples from Red Hat OpenShift, Cloudsmith, SberCloud and Vantage.
LLM APIs
How to choose an LLM API
Gateways, rented GPUs and managed model endpoints price, bill and limit work in different ways, so compare them in a fixed order instead of on a single headline number.
Object storage
How to choose object storage
Compare object storage on storage price per month, egress per gigabyte, included traffic, and the compliance behind each provider, with Aruba and SberCloud as worked examples.
Proxies and scraping APIs
How to choose proxies and scraping APIs
A section by section method for comparing proxies and scraping APIs on per-gigabyte price, country coverage, network types, pool size, support and company details.
Serverless and edge compute
How to Choose Serverless and Edge Compute Providers
Serverless and edge providers differ most in how finely they bill, what the entry plan really costs, and which workloads the GPU and region limits allow, so compare them on those points in that order.
VPS hosting
How to Choose VPS Hosting: Price, Limits and Reliability
Learn to compare VPS hosting on entry price, billing unit, quotas, footprint and support, using SberCloud, MTN and Vantage as worked examples.
InfiniBand or Ethernet for GPU clusters
InfiniBand and Ethernet both link the machines in a GPU cluster, but they differ in delay under load and in setup effort, and that difference decides the choice.
Setting up multi-GPU training
Learn how to split a training job across several GPUs, start a process for each GPU, check that the GPUs communicate, and recover from common errors.
On-demand or reserved GPU instances
On-demand GPU instances give flexibility, while reserved ones suit steady use, and utilisation decides which one fits your workload.
Quantization for lower inference costs
Quantization stores a model's weights with less detail, which can lower memory needs and inference costs, but only after you check that quality still holds.
Setting up GPU monitoring
This guide explains how to collect utilization, memory, temperature and power readings from a graphics processing unit, or GPU, and display and alert on them.
TPU or GPU for machine learning
A general-purpose GPU and a tensor processing unit both run machine learning, but they differ in flexibility, software support and how easily you can move between them.
Dedicated and bare metal servers
VPS hosting: the company behind the plan
VPS hosts differ in company age, headquarters, contracting entity and support reach as much as they differ in hardware, so read the corporate record before you read the plan sheet.
Dedicated and bare metal servers
VPS core features: comparing specs, bandwidth and locations
A section by section method for comparing VPS entry plans, bandwidth allowances and data centre reach across providers from 1Gbits to AlbaHost.
Dedicated and bare metal servers
VPS hardware and regions: how to compare specs and coverage
Entry plan specs, storage type, location counts and region lists decide which VPS fits your workload and audience, and here is how to read each one before you compare prices.
Dedicated and bare metal servers
VPS Pricing: How to Compare Entry Prices, Credits and Billing Periods
A practical guide to reading VPS prices across the listed providers, from entry price and billing period to free credits and the small print around currency and renewal.
Dedicated and bare metal servers
VPS security and compliance: a section by section comparison
Security and compliance claims differ more widely than most VPS specs, so read certifications, DDoS protection, firewall coverage and facility ratings brand by brand before weighing price and limits.
What GPU cloud computing is
GPU cloud computing means renting graphics processing units over the internet and paying only for the time you use them.