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williamparry / cloudRIG

Stream your applications with Parsec and AWS on the cheap.
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Linux compatibility & advantages over Parsec's servers #114

Closed gunar closed 5 years ago

gunar commented 5 years ago

Would it be possible to run cloudRIG on linux? Seeing that it's a Nodejs app, there should be not problem.

williamparry commented 5 years ago

Hi, the CLI should work for Linux. If you want to try and get the GUI working there's $30 in it :)

gunar commented 5 years ago

Offtopic Is there any advantage to using cloudRIG over hiring a machine from parsec? They say they don't charge any fees and comparing to AWS Prices it really seems so.

ghost commented 5 years ago

Would it be possible to run cloudRIG on linux? Seeing that it's a Nodejs app, there should be not problem.

Absolutely, cloudRIG (CLI and GUI) works as expected under Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Once you build you'll get an appimage, it only complains about this repo missing a latest-linux.yml EDIT actually there are a few GUI issues :^).

Is there any advantage to using cloudRIG over hiring a machine from parsec? They say they don't charge any fees and comparing to AWS Prices it really seems so.

For me cloudRIG has 3 advantages:

  1. cloudRIG uses AWS' spot instances (which is where the $0.13/hr figure comes from). At the time of writing a g2.2xlarge (North Virginia) is $0.442/hr compared to Parsec's $0.77/hr

  2. Settings your own EBS volume size. Parsec's smallest storage option is 100GB for $10 a month, which is inline with AWS EBS pricing. cloudRIG can use your own EBS volume size if you only needed say 20GB for $2 a month

  3. It's more of a "pay as you go" versus Parsec's paying for a set amount of time.

If you do go with Parsec's server rental, be sure to double check the server's location.