Paperspace setup help

The same thing happened to me. I spent hours going back and forth with their support team. Paperspace refused to refund me but finally agreed to credit my account $400 towards future use. The problem is that Paperspace is unusable. I’ve wasted days trying to various approaches to configure my instance and get Jupyter Notebook running. I’ve scoured the help forums and followed instructions to the letter, but still fails. Now I’m just walking away, leaving the $400 in unused credits sitting in my account.

Over the past two years I’ve completed over 30 machine learning projects via AWS and FloydHub. Their tools and service are infinitely better. I only tried Paperspace because Fast.ai recommended it. What a mistake.

PAPERSPACE SUCKS. DO NOT USE IT…regardless of what Fast.ai says. You’re better off with AWS.

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I am planning to get started with this course so I wanted to check if this is the currently recommended approach rather then setting up a VM as described earlier.

@2sk21 Definitely! For the most part, Gradient is easier to use than managing VMs. Let me know if you have any questions.

I Just typed every line from http://files.fast.ai/setup/paperspace into terminal.

Anyone else getting stonewalled by paperspace because their website refuses to update the fact that you’ve added a credit card? I get this ‘no valid billing method’ error that prevents me from moving forward with the course.

Hey, @jeremy I set up paper space using the fast.ai template, like you said but when I tried opening the lesson1 jupyter notebook and some other jupyter notebooks it gave me an error. PLease Help

! It also says ‘500: Internal Server Error’ in big red letters.

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what is the updated promocode to setup a paperspace account ?

You can use this one: 6J3HMRI

They finally refunded my money.
I hope they change their billing practices to stop a machine that provisioned after a support ticket was filed, or require acknowledgement of a running machine from the customer before they start charging.
This was extremely stressful - but in the end they did the right thing.

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Can someone please tell me if I’m right?
You can just use a gradient notebook for the course, and running the notebook is charged in the same way as running the VM, by the hour and for the storage space.
But, for some odd/stupid reason, whenever you stop the notebook to avoid paying for unused GPU/CPU/VM time, the notebook is permanently closed, and you have to clone it every time you want to resume the course???

Here is another promocode that can be used:
U780WON

I’ve set up a machine on Paperspace, using the fast.ai template and ran git pull and condo env update. However when I run jupyter notebook I get the following error:

[I 03:20:37.704 NotebookApp] 302 GET /?token=653f3040ba18d5d3d2f0b19787b4c58746f1c8717131348f (87.210.25.132) 0.84ms
[W 03:20:56.220 NotebookApp] Notebook courses/dl1/lesson1.ipynb is not trusted
[W 03:21:02.808 NotebookApp] 403 POST /api/sessions (87.210.25.132): '_xsrf' argument missing from POST
[W 03:21:02.808 NotebookApp] '_xsrf' argument missing from POST
[W 03:21:02.809 NotebookApp] 403 POST /api/sessions (87.210.25.132) 1.77ms referer=http://64.71.146.171:8888/notebooks/courses/dl1/lesson1.ipynb
[I 03:21:02.844 NotebookApp] 302 GET /notebooks/courses/dl1/images/sgdr.png (87.210.25.132) 0.89ms
[I 03:21:02.852 NotebookApp] 302 GET /notebooks/courses/dl1/images/pretrained.png (87.210.25.132) 0.81ms
[W 03:22:18.766 NotebookApp] 403 POST /api/contents/courses/dl1/lesson1.ipynb/trust (87.210.25.132): '_xsrf' argument missing from POST
[W 03:22:18.772 NotebookApp] 403 POST /api/contents/courses/dl1/lesson1.ipynb/trust (87.210.25.132) 7.75ms referer=http://64.71.146.171:8888/notebooks/courses/dl1/lesson1.ipynb
[W 03:22:22.486 NotebookApp] 403 POST /api/contents/courses/dl1/lesson1.ipynb/trust (87.210.25.132): '_xsrf' argument missing from POST
[W 03:22:22.487 NotebookApp] 403 POST /api/contents/courses/dl1/lesson1.ipynb/trust (87.210.25.132) 2.58ms referer=http://64.71.146.171:8888/notebooks/courses/dl1/lesson1.ipynb

Which manifests in the frontend like so:

NB In .jupyter/jupyter_notebook_config.py I changed the line

#c.NotebookApp.disable_check_xsrf = False

to:

#c.NotebookApp.disable_check_xsrf = True

to no avail.

Has anybody run into a similar problem and/or knows how to fix it?

Update: This seems to have been a browser issue (on Brave), on Chrome everything works fine.

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Yes - That is what I experienced as well and reason why I changed to requesting a Machine.

After entering my billing info, trying to set up a machine, immediately have a problem - Cannot choose a GPU Machine, after choosing the Paperspace + Fast.A.I Container.

Am I missing something basic?

Another promotion code if you would like:
ZWQKA4D

Can someone post a referral code to Paperspace setup ?

you’re welcome to use mine if you are still looking: https://www.paperspace.com/&R=6ZEQ7KV

Here’s another promocode to use: 87DPSUV

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Can anyone share an estimate of how much have you spent on Paperspace in past few months? I am trying to approximate how much it will cost monthly.

I’m using the Gradient version of the fast.ai template. I’ve used maybe 10 hours total @ US$0.78 per hour. So, not much.

I’m more than halfway through the fourth video, but I only spin one up when I actually want to re-create something from the lessons. That is, I don’t have one running the entire time I watch the videos.

So far, the hardest part has been not having access to a console, which means I need to add Python modules through a Jupyter notebook. After reading this thread, it seems this is a better ‘problem’ to have than the headaches created by provisioning an actual machine.