Submitted by FermatsLastAccount t3_11ys19h in deeplearning
I've been using Paperspace Gradient Growth recently and really liked it. Their shutdown after 6 hours was annoying, but bearable. And the access to A5000s, A6000s, and A100s for $40 per month was pretty fantastic.
Unfortunately, my account was closed. I was using it to train a Chess engine and I installed Stockfish, which is apparently not allowed. I contacted them because I was having issues logging in and they told me that they "detected unauthorized activities" and explained that I needed to upgrade my account to Paperspace Core to use it.
The 2 most popular services I've seen here are probably vast.ai and podrun, but I don't want to pay hourly. I'd prefer something with persistent storage so I don't need to be constantly processing or uploading large amounts of data.
There's Google Colab Pro, of course. But I don't like their lack of transparency in regards to pricing with their credit system.
Edit: Title should say "unauthorized activities."
fhadley t1_jdbbak8 wrote
Sorry for not coming here with an actual answer but why would they ban stockfish?