C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers
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C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers
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Re: C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers
#2the prices look sweet. anyone has experience with them? How's the network stability? support response times?
Re: C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers
#3has 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?!
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#4the prices look sweet. anyone has experience with them? How's the network stability? support response times?
I host my blog with a C1. The load hasn't been huge, but I've had zero problems. Provisioning is fast, and the pre-packaged images are well designed.
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#5Prices 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...
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#6Invite only.... So you cannot even get them. What's the use of this announcement?
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#7the 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.
Re: C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers
#8Prices 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.
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#9I can see nothing about where the servers are, which can impact latency dramatically in some cases. I have to serve to a chunk of our users in China, and I need to have at least a server in Asia.
Am I missing something?
Re: C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers
#10I can see nothing about where the servers are, which can impact latency dramatically in some cases. I have to serve to a chunk of our users in China, and I need to have at least a server in Asia. Am I missing something?
They are located in France