r/vastai

Earlier this year, a neighbor of mine was selling a small solar field he owned, that produces more kWh’s per year than my house uses, so I planned on selling the net metered credits to friends and family. I bought it, and the next month, our utility provider (Eversource) lowered their rates enough to put the whole endeavor in the red. Sucks to be me, I know.

So, I’ve been looking at ways to make money with the excess kWh’s I have access to now (asking AI all sorts of different questions around the topic) and I’ve been researching vast.ai as a way to gradually make use of what I have.

I don’t really have a specific question, other than “I’m thinking of hosting on vast.ai, but I’m new to this! What do I do?” Of course, AI tells me exactly what I want to hear, but I want the cold hard truth from people who will tell me all the reasons this is not going to work (y’know… what reddit is tailor made for!).

So, if you were in my position (with more electricity than you know what to do with, but losing money if you just sold it on the grid), how would you get started with hosting?

Has anyone used Vast.ai for hosting image generation models ? I burnt through $10 setting up the RTX 5090 series. Iterated for ~20 times. NO luck. always either timed out or errored.

Wanted to download Stable Diffusion, LLama 7B construct and QWen Image plus. Accounted for VRAM requirements and Storage. NOthing still.

Can anyone help ? I can share more specifcs reg config.

We've shipped a major upgrade to two-factor authentication on Vast. Five things to know:

• Authenticator app support: use any TOTP app (Google Authenticator, 1Password, Microsoft Authenticator, etc.) instead of SMS
• CLI 2FA: 2FA now works through the Vast CLI
• Team enforcement: team owners can now create roles with permissions that require 2FA to be used
• Backup codes: automatically generate one-time recovery codes so you're never locked out
• Multiple methods: register more than one per account

Migration notice — Action required if you use the old (legacy) SMS 2FA The legacy 2FA is being deprecated. So if you currently use 2FA, log in normally, go to the Settings Page, and click "Regenerate" on the backup codes section to migrate to the new 2FA. Takes under a minute.

How to set up: Enable 2FA in Settings → Full setup guide

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