Rebus Renderfarm

[tricky]

Bobby,
When you send your renders off do you use DR?
If you want to save some money send them off without DR. They might take a little longer to render but they will cost much much much less.

We are just giving this a whirl on Rebus now and will see how much cheaper the rendering is. However, I thought Rebus charged per CPU hour so it wouldn't matter how many machines were employed. Am I wrong?

[AndresAhumada]

DOnt... if u need more machines is more money!!!

[glorybound]

Yep... the more machines, the more the money.

[Vizioen]

I wonder what's the point of using a renderfarm, if you're not using its full power, you're just rendering as slow as you're at home/work? The only thing is you that can keep working, is that it?

[glorybound]

It's much faster, if you want to pay for the horse power. Uploading all the assets and waiting for your turn in the queue, it's not faster, unless of course, you want to pay for it. It cost more for the power and to get in the front of the line.

I wonder what't the point of using a renderfarm, if you're not using its full power, you're just rendering as slow as you're at home/work? The only thing is you that can keep working, is that it?

[AndresAhumada]

For that reason everyone use rebusfarm for animation

[tricky]

Bobby,
When you send your renders off do you use DR?
If you want to save some money send them off without DR. They might take a little longer to render but they will cost much much much less.

Having just tested this, as I suspected, using 1x Rebus machine costs just the same as using 100x Rebus machines: it just takes 100x longer! Not sure where you got your information from but it is wrong.

[Vizioen]

Everytime you send the render to rebusfarm, rebusdrop informs you of this; stating that using DR costs a lot more. I haven't tried it myself as I always use DR.

[glorybound]

Yep! It's right there in the initial dialog box. Like my daughter would say, Booyah!

Everytime you send the render to rebusfarm, rebusdrop informs you of this; stating that using DR costs a lot more. I haven't tried it myself as I always use DR.

[Neilg]

Is that because it switches you from economy to premium pricing when using DR then?

[glorybound]

Yes, I believe so

Is that because it switches you from economy to premium pricing when using DR then?

[Syclone1]

LOL maybe I should start offering rendering support, I have 2 farms and for the most part at least one or both are not being used for days/weeks at a time...

[glorybound]

I tried one out of China. They reached out to me on Facebook. Their uploaded was running at 14k; it would have taken a month to transfer all the assets. They told my to just upload to Dropbox and they'll download it, render it out, and email me the still. I abandoned the idea.

[jacksc02]

Interesting, I got that information from Rebus. Thing is you pay for the loading/unloading time of render jobs so if you have 30 machines for DR that is a lot of loading and unloading time you have to pay for.

[jacksc02]

I tried one out of China. They reached out to me on Facebook. Their uploaded was running at 14k; it would have taken a month to transfer all the assets. They told my to just upload to Dropbox and they'll download it, render it out, and email me the still. I abandoned the idea.

You are still welcome to use my machines Bobby