I Run 36 GPUs on Vast.ai. Most of You Should Use Salad Instead. Here's Why.

I run 17 rigs and 36 GPUs on Vast.ai. In this video, I explain why most of you should NOT do what I do — and which GPU rental platform is actually right for your gaming PC. Salad vs Vast.ai — the honest comparison nobody is giving you. We cover when Salad wins (Windows-native, no Linux, no networking config, no bandwidth minimum), when Vast.ai wins (higher rates, dedicated rigs, scaling beyond one GPU), and the one hidden feature on Salad that makes it a no-brainer for RTX 4090 and 5090 owners — the pause button. Pause your rental whenever you want, fire up a local LLM like Llama, Qwen, or DeepSeek through Ollama or LM Studio, and stop paying $20/mo each for ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro, and Gemini Advanced. That single feature can save $720/year on AI subscriptions while your GPU still earns passive income the rest of the time. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💰 TRY SALAD (referral link) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👉 bit.ly/Salad-MaxVoltage Using this link supports the channel at no extra cost to you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 0:00 — Why I'm telling you not to do what I do 0:15 — Intro: the work nobody admits Vast.ai takes 1:00 — The real friction of hosting on Vast 2:30 — What Salad actually is (and the 4-minute install) 4:00 — Five things Salad kills for you 7:00 — The honest trade-off (Salad pays less, here's why it's fine) 8:30 — Should you use Salad or Vast.ai? (decision framework) 10:00 — The hidden feature that changes everything for 4090/5090 owners 13:00 — How to actually get started 13:45 — Final thoughts ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 LINKS & RESOURCES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ My website + Vast.ai auto-installer ($49.99): https://maxvoltage.tech Newsletter (weekly homelab + GPU economics): [INSERT BEEHIIV URL] 1-on-1 consulting (GPU hosting strategy): https://introwise.com/max-voltage Discord community:   / discord   Channel merch: [INSERT FOURTHWALL URL] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛠️ TOOLS MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Salad: https://salad.com Vast.ai: https://vast.ai Ollama (run local LLMs on Windows): https://ollama.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📺 WATCH NEXT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Dell T7810 PSU failure troubleshooting:    • My Reliability Score Tanked to 45% — Here'...   ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📬 BUSINESS INQUIRIES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [email protected] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DISCLAIMER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ This video contains affiliate/referral links. If you use my referral link to sign up for Salad, I may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. All opinions are my own and based on my actual experience operating GPU rental infrastructure. Earnings vary based on hardware, location, internet connection, and platform demand — your results will differ from mine. This is not financial advice. #Salad #GPURental #PassiveIncome #LocalLLM #RTX4090 #VastAI #Homelab #AICompute #SideHustle #GamingPC