Unofficial support, and may be incorrect. Just trying to help out.
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Originally Posted by Adiprene1
related Q, would a non-tech guy be better off renting a contabo server (or whatever else), or buying a suitable computer setup?
i had assumed buying a powerful enough comp was the only option since i know nothing about renting servers or how that works
I think it comes down to personal preference and what you plan on doing. I'm running large preflop sims around the clock so and will be doing so for quite some time so it seemed more cost efficient for me to buy my own server.
I would cost me about $180 a month to rent the server I wanted and instead I just bought one for about $450. The caveat being that mine does not have as much RAM and is slightly slower but I can add more RAM for reasonable price at any time and currently I have enough.
I'm more of a DIY'er and into tech so it seemed like buying my own was the right move and I'm more than happy with my decision a week or so later.
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Originally Posted by slowjoe
According to https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/, the machine I am looking at is 22cents per hour for time that it is switched on.
That is very different from $100 per month if I am careful to turn it off when I am not using it.
That seems to have 2x vCPU's, 16gb ram, 75gb ssd.
4 threads will be slow
16gb will limit tree size for preflop stuff but should be enough for a lot of stuff.
75gb will run out of room eventually unless you move stuff to another drive.
Lets back up though, what kind of spots are you looking to run? Basic postflop/preflop stuff or complex spots with different sizings and what not?