Comment by Imustaskforhelp
3 days ago
Oh this looks really interesting as well.
Can you tell me more about what do you mean by Neocloud and where are you exactly hosting the servers (do you colocate or do you resell dedicated servers or do you use the major cloud providers)
this is my first time hearing the term neocloud, seems like its focused on AI but I am gonna be honest that is a con in my book and not a pro (I like hetzner and compute oriented compute cloud providers)
Share to me more about neoclouds please and tell me more about it and if perhaps it could be expanded beyond the AI use case which is what I am seeing when I searched the term neocloud
Neocloud has come to refer to a new class of GPU-focused cloud providers. Sure, most of our customers use us for AI purposes, but it is really open to anything GPU related.
We buy, deploy and manage our own hardware. On top of that, we've built our own automation for provisioning. For example, K8S assumes that an OS is installed, we're operating at a layer below that which enables to machine to boot and be configured on-demand. This also includes DCIM and networking automation.
We colocate in a datacenter (Switch).
This is sometimes called bare metal as a service.
Ironic is an open source project in this space if people are curious what this looks like.
We built our own ironic. Instead of a ton of services and configuration, we just have a single golang binary. Our source of truth is built on top of NetBox. We integrate Stripe for billing. We're adding features as customers ask for them.
While it is a lot of moving parts coordination, I'm not sure I agree with the complexity...
https://docs.openstack.org/ironic/latest/_images/graphviz-21...
Rackspace called; they want their business model back. :P
imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. the rackspace folks did a great job.
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> seems like its focused on AI but I am gonna be honest that is a con in my book and not a pro
A service you have no use for or interest in is “a con in your book”, what?