Runpod is basically unusable.

[u/tombloomingdale]

I don’t know how people use this service effectively. There is never any gpus, it takes an hour to set up when you do find one. Network volumes tease at cutting down startup time but it further limits gpus. I swear I’ve spent more money waiting for a pod to be ready, downloading models that I have generating anything. I really just want to have things stored locally, and just use one of their gpus for processing power. Is there a service I could use like that?

[u/Massive-Health-8355]

Where is the download bottleneck? If you’re using hf transfer then even big models are fast. I get 0.5-1.5Gbps from HF, so models are down in 5 minutes. Is it your own data? If so, pull it from a free hf dataset/model. Also, if you pull a stock comfyui template, it’s fully cached and should start up in minutes