Blog Topics

Every post on the Spheron blog belongs to one of 16 topics, grouped below by the question you're actually trying to answer. Pick the one that matches what you're building, from choosing a GPU to running a compliance review on a self-hosted deployment, and start with the pillar guide.

Choosing & Comparing

30 guides

GPU Selection

How to choose the right GPU for training, fine-tuning, or inference. Compares VRAM, compute, and cost across GPU models so you rent the right one for the job.

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19 guides

GPU Deep Dives

In-depth breakdowns of individual GPU models: memory bandwidth, architecture, compute specs, and real-world performance for training and inference workloads.

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55 guides

GPU Pricing

Hourly GPU rental rates, cost-per-token breakdowns, and pricing surveys across cloud providers, so you know what training and inference should actually cost.

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66 guides

Provider Comparisons

Head-to-head comparisons of Spheron against other GPU cloud providers, covering pricing, availability, and setup time to help you pick the right platform.

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Serving & Inference

11 guides

vLLM

Practical vLLM guides covering production deployment, throughput tuning, continuous batching, and benchmarks against other serving stacks on rented GPUs.

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16 guides

Serving Stacks

Guides and benchmarks for SGLang, TensorRT-LLM, TGI, and other LLM serving stacks, comparing throughput and latency so you pick the right one for production.

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46 guides

Inference Optimization

Practical techniques for faster, cheaper inference: KV cache management, continuous batching, quantization, FP8, and prefill-decode disaggregation on GPUs.

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32 guides

MoE Inference

How to serve mixture-of-experts models in production: expert parallelism, routing, memory layout, and throughput tuning on multi-GPU rented clusters today.

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80 guides

Model Deployment

Step-by-step tutorials for deploying open-source models on rented GPU cloud infrastructure, from environment setup to serving your first inference request.

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Training & Infrastructure

31 guides

LLM Training

Guides on pretraining, fine-tuning, LoRA, and RLHF for large language models, with practical setup steps for running training jobs on rented GPU clusters.

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28 guides

Infrastructure

Networking, orchestration, storage, and multi-node cluster design for AI workloads, covering the infrastructure decisions that determine training performance.

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10 guides

Kernel Development

Writing and optimizing CUDA and Triton kernels for GPU workloads, covering memory access patterns, occupancy, and profiling techniques for faster training.

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21 guides

Cost Optimization

How to cut GPU compute costs with spot instances, reserved commitments, utilization tracking, and budget controls, without slowing down training or inference.

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Agents, Use Cases & Compliance

31 guides

AI Agents

Running agentic workloads in production: infrastructure choices, serving patterns, and GPU sizing for AI agents that plan, call tools, and run continuously.

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15 guides

Industry Use Cases

Industry-specific guides for self-hosting AI models in healthcare, finance, legal, and other regulated verticals, on infrastructure you control end to end.

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11 guides

Data Privacy

Self-hosting AI models for data privacy, regulatory compliance, and data sovereignty, so sensitive workloads never leave infrastructure that you control.

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Try It Yourself

Try It on Real GPUs

The GPUs behind these guides are the ones you can rent here: H100s, H200s, B200s, and more, billed per minute with no contracts and no minimum. Pick one and you are live in under two minutes.

Deploy Time
< 2 min
Uptime SLA
99.9%
GPU Models
10+
Billing
Per-Min