I recently read a thing on p****bot's forums saying that you could use google cloud platform's VM functions to run a botfarm on a cloud server. I'm trying it out now with their free trials, and I'm not seeing any issues on my end. Anyone else doing this?

 

Spoiler

Everyone probably already knows about this, and i'm just an idiot.

 

I just could never get it set up, had no idea what i was doin!

15 hours ago, 200kwoodcut said:

I just could never get it set up, had no idea what i was doin!

It took me a bit of time to set mine up, but I figured it out eventually.

Isn't cloud way more expensive than just renting a server?

5 hours ago, Zummy said:

Isn't cloud way more expensive than just renting a server?

YOU GET FREE 300$ with google cloud when you sign up for first time< just keep creating gmails = free hosting

 

2 hours ago, 200kwoodcut said:

YOU GET FREE 300$ with google cloud when you sign up for first time< just keep creating gmails = free hosting

 

I've worked with Azure for a little bit but I burned through my free credit real quick. I wonder how long $300 will last you.

1 hour ago, Zummy said:

I've worked with Azure for a little bit but I burned through my free credit real quick. I wonder how long $300 will last you.

it problably doesnt last long but you can do a new email a day with what you get back its nice

 

I am an IT professional with a ton of servers lying around my house, hosted cloud computing is the only reason I'm even interested in running a bot farm.

On 8/17/2019 at 9:08 PM, Zummy said:

I've worked with Azure for a little bit but I burned through my free credit real quick. I wonder how long $300 will last you.

If you're not trying to go mass scale, you would do much better by buying used server hardware off ebay and setting everything up yourself.

 

On 8/24/2019 at 6:17 AM, heavy_rope said:

I am an IT professional with a ton of servers lying around my house, hosted cloud computing is the only reason I'm even interested in running a bot farm.

If you're not trying to go mass scale, you would do much better by buying used server hardware off ebay and setting everything up yourself.

 

I'm very curious to see how you calculated estimated monthly costs. What you do think running a 100 bots would cost you?

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Think of it this way. If you run a Preemptive Server for 24 hours on a VM in G-Cloud, it'll cost you 0.0014 dollars an hour for a basic server that can host 2 instances of OSBot

I don't see any issue w/ it. I would wrap the jar in a docker image w/ osbot cli as the entrypoint and run it on GKE. Use the script/account details as configurations and you can scale a farm easily. I would think preemptible nodes would be fine depending on the task at hand. For more serious/risky scripts I would think you need non-preemptible

Edited February 9, 20215 yr by Mom

Cloud is almost like a marketing term which makes the price tag slightly higher. Well, cloud can still be affordable but big names like gcp definitely charge more than less well-known providers. I haven't compared prices directly but I'm pretty sure clouds like hetzner/scaleway are cheaper. Heck, even those more known ones like digitalocean/vultr/linode are probably cheaper.