thanks @dkobran
I’ve added the link to the Paperspace instructions.
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@reshama Thanks for doing that.
One thing I wanted to clarify is that under Step 6 it mentions that you pay for storage each time. Fortunately, that is not the case. If you deactivate a machine, a corresponding amount of credit is added so you actually only pay for the amount of time the storage was used (it’s prorated like compute).
This is definitely confusing and we’ll be moving storage to the end of the month soon to make it more clear. The good thing is, you can create/destroy machines all day and you will only get charged while the storage is active (to the millisecond!). Apologies for the confusion!
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@dkobran
That’s good to hear! (as I set up my machine 3 times, so that would have instantly used up $15 right there).
I’ve updated the text to:
storage costs are pro-rated (like compute (or “usage”) costs)
That is great news!
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I am trying to setup paperspace, and have been able to launch the Jupyter Notebook. But for some reason the page is coming as blank in the browser. However, I could see in the paperspce cli that the Jupyter notebook is getting launched.
I am using Mac and facing the same issue both on Safari and Chrome. Has anyone faced this issue or know the resolution. Thanks a lot. Can’t wait to fix it asap and start the course 
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. I appreciate your detailed response.What do these 3 command phrases do?
echo 'export PATH=~/anaconda3/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
export PATH=~/anaconda3/bin:$PATH
source ~/.bashrc
Hi,
I am unable to use paperspace server, they rejected my credit card because I am come from outside US. If I use Amazon, can I still follow all the walkthrough on the video or this courses exclusively to used in paperspace server?
We support AWS too.
For 6 days I spent most of the time on paperspace waiting for it to start up; finally cancelled the account today. I was able to load the fast ai library and look at the notebooks. Couldn’t get around to load new data. I am in CA. Is my experience unique? Trying to decide if I should give it another try or go back to aws?
I haven’t experienced that myself. You may want to contact their support, or ask @dillon here who is from Paperspace.
@sandip @jeremy I am having the same problem with Paperspace not loading. I set up a server last night and used it for ~30 minutes and it worked great. Shut it down and have tried to use it again but it won’t start. The little circle on the start button just spins forever. I’ve submitted a ticket with support so we’ll see what happens.
I have a Hackintosh with a GTX 1080, so maybe it’ll be best to install a new drive with Ubuntu and dual boot and access the machine through my laptop. Was hoping Paperspace would make it even easier than that for now.
Edit: I did get it to load eventually. Not sure what changed.
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Earlier in this thread there is some mention of the paperspace terminal being bugg-y.
So I have been trying using ssh for the last hour.
My experience so far is that ssh works if the paperspace machine is in the ‘ready’ state at the website.
I was able to change my unix pwd, install fast ai and the start the notebooks.
No success with using scp to transfer image data from my local machine to paperspace yet but thats just my learning curve.
One curious observation (cannot claim causality yet): the paperspace terminal worked like a charm while bay area was commuting this morning.
My jupyter_notebook_config.py contains these two lines. Still My Jupyter notebook is not launching on ubuntu.
Hi all. I really don’t have much experience with all this, but sorta stumbled my way into a temporary fix which could lead to a “proper” solution for this. My fix was as follows:
ssh into your paperspace instance, while forwarding a port:
ssh paperspace@YOUR_PUBLIC_IP_ADDRESS_ADDRESS -L 8889:127.0.0.1:8889
I used port 8889 instead of 8888 because 8888 was giving me some sort of error. Maybe 8888 will work for you. My understanding is that this command ssh’s into your instance as usual, but additionally forwards port 8889 to your ‘localhost’.
Next, I started a notebook on port 8889:
cd fastai/
jupyter notebook --port=8889
Finally, I could now access the notebook by entering the following in my browser:
localhost:8889
The password is ‘dl_course’
Hope this works for others as well!
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If you’re not able to access your Paperspace jupyter notebook, try this:
sudo ufw allow 8888:8898/tcp
It opens the firewall to allow jupyter notebook connections. It ought to be there by default, but it sounds like some might be missing it. @alknemeyer let me know if this removes the need for ssh forwarding for you.
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The response to running that command is:
Skipping adding existing rule
Skipping adding existing rule (v6)
Unfortunately things are still otherwise the same (ie I need port forwarding and “cannot listen to port: 8888”). I started this machine today using the premade paperspace template
OK then my guess is the firewall is at your end. ssh forwarding is the best solution in that case