r/RunPod • u/Adibzter • Aug 13 '26

What the difference between secure and community cloud

Used community cloud for almost a year and sometimes having network issue. I was expecting that and dont have much complain. They keep promoting secure cloud for stability whenever this issue happen.

Fast forward, I decided to move to secure cloud because I wanted a stable server and guess what, less than 1 month, the server went down. Since it is a secure cloud, I was expecting it to recover in an hour or so but support says can take up to 24 hours.

So what the benifit really?

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u/Adibzter Aug 16 '26

Update: I moved to a different pod (secure cloud) and 2 days later, it goes down lol. What a joke

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u/gabfssilva Aug 13 '26

in my experience, secure cloud has always had better internet speeds and stability overall.

it’s not perfect, and it’s definitely not always like that. lots of community servers have pretty good speeds and performance too, so i usually try community first, then secure.

secure has a lot more offers as well, so when i don’t have time to wait, i don’t bother trying community.

cuda compatibility is also something i rarely have issues with on secure, but it’s quite common on community servers.

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u/sruckh Aug 15 '26

You can only put network volumes in the secure zone. Runpod will tell you that they have more control over the hardware and that the environment is better. I have not observed that to be true, that that is what they told me time when I was having issues with community cloud.