Hyperstack has a snappy, easy-to-use web portal, where we can quickly and easily spin up and spin down GPU VMs across three regions: Norway, Canada, and the US. They also plug in to external marketplaces such as PaleBlueDot.AI, where we were able to test them again.
However, in our direct testing we also found that either their flagship Kubernetes service is broken, or we got them on a bad capacity day. After waiting for three hours, we got a vague “reconcile failed” error. The system gave us no logs or details. Luckily, our account was not charged for GPU time during this attempt (unlike some other providers on our list, more on that later).
On our second attempt, with different GPUs, more progress was made. After 4 hours stuck in the “Creating” stage, it did look like some machines were created and public IPs were allocated to the cluster.
Our kubernetes cluster, waiting for something to happen
We encourage Hyperstack to fix this core problem with their kubernetes deployment workflow so that customers can reliably use its H100 and H200 GPUs in clusters.