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User review of Paperspace

Paperspace Lures With Price, But Fails With Delivery

- by David Lieder

USER SATISFACTION

RECOMMENDATION
1 out of 7
Never
COST EFFICENCY
6out of 7
Very good
OVERALL IMPRESSION
1out of 5
very poor
EASE OF USE
2out of 5
mediocre
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
1out of 5
very poor

PROS & CONS

What are the best aspects of this product?

I tested Paperspace for six months. The product is unusable in its current form. Paperspace virtual workstations are limited by the "remote login" software that the company produces, which is a total fail. The instances will crash for up to 60 hours at a time, and support is slow to respond, because the support team is understaffed and underqualifed (meaning that most of them are not fully trained to do their job). The graphics drivers get mismatched between their servers and your local computer due to bugs in the remote login software, which results in crashes or the software not displaying properly. For professional graphics software or rendering, this is terrible, and video games will display properly. The billing software often billed me when the workstation was crashed. The workstation will power down by accident, due to bugs in their "auto-shutdown features". If it happens during a lightmap render or some other process, you can lose hours of work time and still have to pay for it, even though Paperspace killed your project. And support can be rude. Support is always bad. But sometimes they are also rude about it.

What aspects are problematic or could work better?

The entire Paperspace experience is a disaster. They have great backup management, but for all features that a company would depend on, Paperspace is a fail.

What features/services would you like to see in future versions of this product?

Using Paperspace was a waste of my company's time and money, and we've moved on.

What specific problems in your company were solved by this product?

Paperspace wasted our companies time and money, and we consider them a non-solution.

Are you a current user of this product?

Yes

USER DETAILS

What is your role with this product?

  • I implemented it

How long have you been using this product?

Less than 1 year

COMPANY DETAILS

What is your company size?

1-10 Employees

What is your industry?

Graphic Design

USAGE & IMPLEMENTATION

How did your company implement this product?

in the cloud

How long did it take to set up this product?

less than 1 day

How many people in your company actively use this product?

just me

What is the primary use of this product in your company?

both B2B & B2C

EFFECT ON BUSINESS GOALS:

How did using this product affect your business goals?

  • It reduces hardware and device costs.
  • It centralizes workforce in the company’s local network.
  • It empowers remote system for mobility.

PRICING & COSTS

What was the cost of implementing this product?

A bit lower than Google Cloud or Amazon EC2, but the constant crashes of Paperspace resulted in a huge cost and failure of the software .

Did you get any discount for this product? How much?

No

FEATURE DETAILS

Application virtualization
1
very poor
Backup management
5
amazing
File sharing
3
ok
Memory allocation
3
ok
Network monitoring
1
very poor
Predictive recommendations
1
very poor
Remote access
1
very poor
Storage
4
very good
Systems management
1
very poor