Last Updated: October 30, 2024

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SaladCloud Infrastructure

SaladCloud is a distributed network with nodes located worldwide, ranging from esports arenas to personal computers. This global network allows us to offer computing resources at exceptionally low prices and gives us the ability to grow the network by hundreds of nodes a day when needed. It is important to understand that as a result, the nodes powering our network can disconnect at any time, stopping container instances running on the node. When this happens we automatically reallocate these instances to a new node as quickly as possible. Although some nodes may remain connected for days at a time, maintaining constant uptime requires multiple replicas for redundancy.

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Priority Levels

Priority levels let you balance interruptions and cost savings according to your needs. Container Groups run at one of four priority levels on our network: High, Medium, Low, or Batch. Lower priority levels have reduced costs. Higher priority container groups can preempt lower priority ones if a higher-paying job becomes available. If you find that instances at a lower priority level are reallocating too frequently for your needs, you can edit the container group to select a higher priority level. After adding a GPU to your container group, you can choose between priority levels. At the highest priority level, your container group instances will not be interrupted by other workloads. However, high priority instances will still be reallocated if your container exits, you request a reallocation, or the node powering the instance disconnects. Container groups without a GPU always run at the Batch priority level, and can be interrupted by any container group requesting a GPU.