A guide for being a semi-professional or professional host on vast.ai

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Overview & Quickstart

CLI Command Reference

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Search Interface

Rental Types

Reserved Instance Discounts

Launch Modes

How to config templates for Vast.ai instances

Docker repository (registry) authentication

Templates

Docker Execution Environment

SSH/SCP

Jupyter

Data Movement

Cloud Sync

A gradio web UI for running Large Language Models like LLaMA, llama.cpp, GPT-J, Pythia, OPT, and GALACTICA.

Oobabooga (LLM webui)

Stable Diffusion is very powerful and you can run it on Vast instances

Stable Diffusion

1) Select the docker image &amp; config options

4) Download the modified DD notebook as a .ipynb file

7) Changing settings and downloading images

Disco Diffusion

How to connect a Vast instance to Google Colab using their "local runtime" feature and port forwarding.

Google Colab

Windows SSH/SCP Guide

Hosting

Get Machines

Schedule Maintenance

List Machine

Unlist Machine

Get Instances

Create Instances

Update Instances

Destroy Instances

Reboot Instance

Request Logs

Execute Command

Change Bid Price

Get Machine Earnings

Get Invoices

Set Minimum Bid

Set Default Job

Remove Default Job

Introduction

QuickStart

What operating systems are provided? Windows?

Are vast.ai interruptible instances the same as AWS spot or GCE interruptible?

What happens when my interruptible instance loses the bid?

How can I restart my programs once the instance restarts?

How can I stop the instance from within the instance?

How can I open an identity port map like 32001:32001 where external:internal are the same?

How do you protect my data from other clients?

How do you protect my data from providers?

Can you bill my card automatically so I don't have to add credit in advance?

I didn't enable debit-mode - what are these automatic charges to my card?

Why should I trust vast.ai with my credit card info?

Do you support PayPal? What about cryptocurrency?

How do I upload/download to/from my instance?

How do I upload/download to/from my instance - using scp?

How do I upload/download to/from my instance - using scp with a direct connection?

I'm getting a ConnectionResetError downloading files?

How can I download a Kaggle dataset using wget?

All my instances keep stopping, switching to inactive status, even though I didn't press the stop button. What's going on?

I keep getting this error: spend_rate_limit. What's going on?

I tried to connect with ssh and it asked for a password. What is the password?

I stopped my instance, and now when I try to restart it the status is stuck on \"scheduling\". What is wrong?

Do you support payout in any crypto-currencies?

What happens if I turn off my machine or just lose internet during a compute job?

What security measures protect my machine and my network?

Will guests be able to determine my IP address?

Someone is renting my machine for less than my price, what's happening?

What will the stability of earnings be like?

What operating systems are supported for hosting?