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C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers

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Re: C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers

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Post by Vlaix »

fooyc wrote: post #7
kyriakos wrote: post #2

the prices look sweet. anyone has experience with them? How's the network stability? support response times?

They are a subsidiary company of Online.net, itself a subsidiary of Iliad/Free, one of the leading ISPs in France. I have over 50 servers at Online since more than a year now, and they have been pretty much flawless. Support is good and reachable by phone. I haven't worked with Scaleway though.

>Support is good and reachable by phone

Really ? I used them quite a bit years and years ago, and at the time the support was somewhat garbage, which made me move to OVH.

Re: C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers

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Post by adamt »

therealmarv wrote: post #3

has somebody experience with Scaleway? Especially if you compare to DigitalOcean? First time I see them. Seems for me the biggest difference is that their servers are baremetal and not VMs?!

I've been using their ARM Servers for a while as a build/test servers for some embedded Linux stuff. Overall a positive experience and things have 'just worked' with a Digital Ocean style interface. That said I've not been hosting critical websites or similar.

Unlike Digital Ocean I like the ability to add flexible storage volumes.

Re: C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers

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Post by Rafert »

Ambroos wrote: post #8
cfallin wrote: post #5

Prices seem really great but a few paragraphs down they say the servers are based on Avoton SoCs. Intel Avoton is an Atom chip (Silvermont core), so CPU-bound performance will be somewhat lower than the usual Sandy Bridge/Haswell/whatever core that you get on AWS or Google Compute Engine. It's a server SoC though so I/O throughput is probably pretty decent...

That's what scares me a bit. The multi-core performance is great (considering their pricing), but single-threaded performance is quite a bit below what the competition gets you. If you're running a web server with something single-threaded (like PHP) requests might start taking a bit longer than you're used to.

Correct me if I'm wrong but you can spin up multiple PHP worker processes to take advantage of those cores?

Re: C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers

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Post by zschallz »

The blade servers at Delimiter (https://www.delimiter.com/) are even more affordable. I pay $20 a month for a dual Xeon blade with 16gb of ram.

They did have a very long downtime this year with no service credit, but uptime has been reasonable over the past year. If you're looking for a hobby box it's a pretty good deal.

Re: C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers

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Post by speakeron »

I've been testing the performance of the C2.

Compared with a Xeon D-1520 (the current hot chip of low-cost cloud computing and actually very nice), single core speed is less than half of the Xeon D (at about the same clock rate of 2.4GHz); multi-thread speed (8 threads running lame encodes) is about 66% of Xeon D.

Not bad for the price.

Re: C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers

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Post by strongai »

8draco8 wrote: post #18
pjc50 wrote: post #12

If you want even more affordable (but lower performance), http://lowendspirit.com/

I would be careful with them. I've bought couple VPSes there and there was always an issues. In one instance provider vanished after 3 months, in another one VPS is still live but it's terrible slow (high ping latency). I am not complaining much because I paid for them ~$7/year (yes, thats year) but still, the same companies offer more expensive options and I wouldn't risk data lost. Use DigitalOcean, I think its ver…

Thanks for the intel re the London DO datacentre. I'm glad it's not just me :-)

Re: C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers

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Post by rfreytag »

I tried Scaleway last year. I was very disappointed with the usability of their offering (I was trying to run a simple Ubuntu Minecraft server - it was unnecessarily complicated to set up everything from ssh keys to snapshots), and stopped the account quickly. That very next day and for the first time ever my card picked up a fraudulent $3000 bar bill in Las Vegas. I don't think it was a coincidence.

I cannot recommend Scaleway.

Re: C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers

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Post by codecamper »

unlimited bandwidth. Is that for real?

300 Mbits. Let's assume you can pump out 100 Mbit sustained. That is about 10 MB/s. or 26,000,000 Megabytes/month. 26,000 GB / month.

  AWS & google cloud are about $.10/GB.    That'd cost 2600 USD to serve.
Scaleway claims that'd cost just 12 euro.

For realz?

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