Hi guys,

Sorry for my newbie questions. I'm technologically literate but in this case I feel like a moron.

I want to explore an option of running GTO+ on a rented online server. However, I've never rented a server before and I don't know how it works.

Do I just google: rent a server, then compare CPU options and rent it? Will I be able to somehow install the GTO+ software on any of these virtual machines? Or does it neet to be some special kind of a server?

If I proceed to rent it, open the program and rent it, do I just wait for it to finalize calculations and then proceed to download the solutions to my PC, or is there something I don't know about?

Thank you for help!

Do a web search on AWS and Azure Infrastructure As A Service(IAAS) virtual machines to start getting some background.
Read the website for your solver software/ask their customer support how to manage licensing and installation on cloud VMs and what the required specs are.

This does make me wonder if there's a niche for doing a value added cloud service for solvers, but I don't have the bandwidth to dig into it at this point. I suspect payment fraud, resistance from the solver IP owners and copycats would make it hard to make a decent go of it.