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What is the difference between secure cloud and Community Cloud?

Lluciiii_29 What is the difference between secure cloud and Community Cloud?

J.•2/20/24, 10:19 PM

https://docs.runpod.io/references/faq/#secure-cloud-vs-community-cloud

FAQ | RunPod Documentation

General questions about RunPod and its services.

J.•2/20/24, 10:19 PM

In general though the tldr is secure cloud is data centers, community cloud is peer level gpus out there

J.•2/20/24, 10:19 PM

i personally find secure cloud is much more consistent in terms of performance / networking / bandwidth

J.•2/20/24, 10:19 PM

so i generally dont touch community cloud cause it not worth dealing with the headaches that can come with it

JJ.so i generally dont touch community cloud cause it not worth dealing with the he...

luciiii_29OP•2/20/24, 10:24 PM

and even configuring the maximum bandwidth it gives failures?

Lluciiii_29 and even configuring the maximum bandwidth it gives failures?

J.•2/20/24, 10:24 PM

what do u mean configuring maximum bandwidth?

J.•2/20/24, 10:24 PM

U cant configure a bandwidth of a pod? that's just the limitation of the pod itself / networking equipment they got

luciiii_29OP•2/20/24, 10:26 PM

J.•2/20/24, 10:26 PM

ah i see

J.•2/20/24, 10:27 PM

i never knew that was possible

J.•2/20/24, 10:27 PM

Hahaha, i learnt something new

JJ.Hahaha, i learnt something new

luciiii_29OP•2/20/24, 10:28 PM

hahahah I'm going to try it and see what works

J.•2/20/24, 10:29 PM

but I guess the other thing ill say with community pod i learnt is that:
Networking is usually affected by the source / destination bandwidth, so usually pods are fast enough but the end area to download like HF / civitai can sometimes bottleneck u. (I actually wrote a script for speed testing to see if it ur pod fault or to try to isolate to ur end desination fault)

But another thing i learnt during that time from the staff was that community pods are sharing the same network bandwidth as potentially other pods in the same region. so sometimes what u can get is that another pod on the same community pod network is throttling the whole bandwidth. (This is rare but it happens), vs secure pods, the data center has enough money for expensive networking equipment so that every pod essentially has its own lane.

Im not a networking expert, by any means, just what i had learnt in a different networking question in the past

Lluciiii_29 hahahah I'm going to try it and see what works

J.•2/20/24, 10:29 PM

yea go for it haha, i think community pods still very popular; im just a big i want as consistent as possible sort of person

JJ.yea go for it haha, i think community pods still very popular; im just a big i w...

luciiii_29OP•2/20/24, 10:30 PM

I will let you know how it works hahaha thank you very much!!!

JM•2/21/24, 5:43 AM

If I may chime in; I would say it depends on the purpose of what you are trying to accomplish @luciiii_29

How much redundancy do you require?
What are your expectations in terms of uptime?
What are your security requirements?
Is it for an business usage to monetize it?
What bandwidth speed to you require?

I would say if one or several questions above are leaning towards higher requirements, I would advise to go Secure

@justin

Lluciiii_29 Click to see attachment

ashley•2/21/24, 6:25 AM

This is just a filter to match pods with the specified bandwidth, it doesn't configure the bandwidth of the pod.

What is the difference between secure cloud and Community Cloud?

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