Community Cloud Pod Explanation | Generated by AI
Here’s what I found:
IP: 213.173.102.150 Location: Timișoara, Romania Owner: AS202779 — EVOBITS Information Technology SRL Type: Hosting/cloud provider (9 year old BGP network, 192 peers)
This is NOT RunPod’s own datacenter (Secure Cloud). This is almost certainly a RunPod Community Cloud pod — where someone in Romania is renting out their RTX 2000 Ada workstation through RunPod’s peer-to-peer GPU marketplace. That’s why:
- The IP traces to a Romanian hosting company, not RunPod’s infra
- The GPU is an RTX 2000 Ada (professional workstation card, not typical datacenter hardware)
- The SSH port was non-standard (33880)
- The connection is now REFUSED — the pod was likely terminated or the host shut it down
RunPod Community Cloud works like this: individuals/orgs contribute their GPUs to RunPod’s marketplace, RunPod handles provisioning and billing, and users get cheaper compute. The contributor’s own ISP shows up as the IP, not RunPod’s.
Current status: Connection refused. The pod is down. Either:
- You paused/stopped it in RunPod dashboard (as you said “I pause”)
- It hit an idle timeout and auto-terminated
- The contributor powered off their machine
If you want it back, go to your RunPod dashboard and resume/recreate the pod. Community Cloud pods are ephemeral — the host can disconnect at any time. For more reliable workloads, use RunPod Secure Cloud (enterprise datacenters, higher uptime, slightly more expensive).