How To: Building Your Own Render Farm

[turkey3_scratch]

Yep, but when this article was written, many online renderfarms were difficult to use, unreliable, or in some cases were using machines whose configurations were inadequate for even then. These days, there are cases when you need local systems doing the rendering and cases where using an online renderfarm is preferable. This article was published here on Tom's almost six years ago and the landscape has changed significantly since.

Heh I totally missed that it was old. I thought it was new yesterday.

 

[Draven35]

that's ok, at this point in time I would be hesitant to recommend building your own renderfarm... except in certain cases. For instance, lots of AE rendering....

 

[Peter_104]

I would rather use the render farm service which is much more cost effective than purchasing hardware and maintain myself. There are a lot of great render farm service available which even served some blockbuster movie: Baahubali: The Beginning, this is the 2015 India’s top budget historical epic movie rendered by Fox Render farm.

 

[Draven35]

And as i already stated, many of these online render farms use cloud computing resources that didn't exist when the article was written.

Some clients, including some movie studios, expressly forbid you from using online renderfarms for data security concerns. or limit which resources you can use. For instance, if you're a government contractor in the US, forget online renderfarms exist.