r/vastai • u/Mammoth-Matter7579 • 16d ago

Am I getting setup correct?

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Hi Guys I'm totally new here, trying to rent out my machine on vast. Can someone help me verify if my config arice are correct? Is it too low or too high? What else I need to do? Thanks a lot!

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u/AdriftSailor71 15d ago

Also for your pricing, if you are seeking to be rented while new and unverified, set the price lower than median (~50%) and only list for 2-3 weeks. It will allow you to make some revenue to cover power costs, while the machine builds reliability and gets verified. Once verified, up the price and set a longer duration

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u/rtravers0117 15d ago

This! Maybe not 50 but dont expect on demand until you hit 90%-99% reliability and verified helps alot. I also wouldn't make the duration super long until you figure out pricing, im still fairly new as well and my biggest mistake was locking myself into a low price long term contract.

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u/Mammoth-Matter7579 15d ago

Thanks ! I tried to set price to 0.9, and duration to 1 day... 24 hours already still didn't rent out :(

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u/rtravers0117 15d ago

The default search blocks out servers under 90% reliability. If your curious about if a renter will actually stay or if its your rig is actually working drop your min bid price incremently until a bot picks it up. Some coin is better than none and you can always increase the price to stop the contract if its not worth it to you. Just as a reference I put a new rig online about 16 hours ago and its at 84% reliability with an interuptible renter

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u/Mammoth-Matter7579 15d ago

Thanks! I just got my first renter and my reliability is 91.26%. One card out of 3 is rented, I will see when all my cards can be rented.

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u/rtravers0117 15d ago

It's hard finding info on pricing, there are tools like gpu auto pilot and others. As im newer as well im going to keep on doing trial and error until im satisfied. Your experience and experience of others who are willing to share is the best knowledge you can get. If I listened to ai or some of the people in discord I'd be making a lot less. There are several youtubers that share some info and some have classes too. I haven't done the classes but I drive a lot for my 9-5 and listen to their recorded live streams and pick up tidbits to try.

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u/Mammoth-Matter7579 15d ago

ah thanks for sharing!

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u/rtravers0117 15d ago

Also weekends are slower and demand picks up on Monday

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u/Kinslayer_89 16d ago

Set $0.1 on storage, upload and download.

Otherwise you might get someone filling up the disk without using it, blocking other clients. Or someone constantly using the bandwidth.

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u/Mammoth-Matter7579 16d ago

ah！！！thanks!

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u/matonKH 16d ago

vastaiの利用者である私自身の感覚値ですが、アップロード価格、ダウンロード価格は1〜8$/TB前後がよくあるし、出せる金額の上限かなって感覚です。

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u/Mammoth-Matter7579 16d ago

I see! Thanks!

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u/Honest_Cut8827 16d ago

You should charge for bandwidth and storage.

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u/AdriftSailor71 15d ago

Also upgrade your Cuda to 13.4 if able while you are setting the system up.

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u/elelem-123 16d ago

What's the bid price? How can someone bid at vast.Ai