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Scaleway is probably my new favorite VPS provider atm. It's console is way simpler than AWS. The only things that bother me are the limited availability of ARM nodes and being unable to ~~experiment~~ use SIS. But even with that it's still way more fun.
Except AWS have ECC RAM, Scaleway doesn't.
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Except AWS have ECC RAM, Scaleway doesn't.
Well, for one I don't care much, I run my hobby stuff on there, not my mission critical services, so cheap is good, even with some really minor drawbacks. Secondly, I could not find a source if Scaleway uses ECC or not...
Furthermore if you look at what CPUs they use, especially for the x86 solutions, the cpus themselves don't support ECC.
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Well, for one I don't care much, I run my hobby stuff on there, not my mission critical services, so cheap is good, even with some really minor drawbacks. Secondly, I could not find a source if Scaleway uses ECC or not...
I actually asked them directly, and they told me their ram doesn't have ECC Furthermore if you look at what CPUs they use, especially for the x86 solutions, the cpus themselves don't support ECC.
I guess I'll use more hashes.
Why is Scaleway so cheap compared to for instance: DigitalOcean?
How do scaleway cores compare to digital ocean?
How do scaleway cores compare to digital ocean?
2x Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU C2750 @ 2.40GHz
The ARM cores are slower - there was a thread a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9309459 the X86 servers are not very fast either: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11251671 but if you look at the numbers in that thread it's likely that DO overbooks their machines and if you are unlucky you can end up with slower performance than on Scaleway.
But for me it doesn't matter. I'm not doing heavy computational lifting and for nginx + some database it's fine and 2GB memory is pretty nice to have.
A minor annoyance is that you can't choose the kernel version and you are stuck on 4.5.7 at the moment - I guess if you care about local security priv escalation bugs it's a no go.
But docker seems to work and you can select a kernel flavour in the admin menu.
Another annoyance is only a /128 IPv6 address for the VPSs - but IIRC the dedicated boxes get a /48
But for 3€/month I'm more than happy - you usually only get OpenVZ VMs with ancient 2.6.36 kernel for that price if at all.