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We are slashing the C1 price by 70 percent

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Re: We are slashing the C1 price by 70 percent

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Post by voltagex_ »

zinxq wrote: post #7

Storage and VPS systems are becoming (have become) commodity so quickly. It will be interesting to see if this has any effect on open-source Saas businesses. I.e. "We'll host it for you or you can host it yourself for free" - for example, ghost. Hosting it for me has definitely has its level of remove-hassle advantages, but if such software is easy to install and low maint, then it becomes notably cheaper to grab a V…

ScaleWay seem to have some one-click setups - "InstantApps". See https://www.scaleway.com/docs/category/instantapps/

Re: We are slashing the C1 price by 70 percent

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Post by rmac »

lordlarm wrote: post #10

Scaleway is a highly interesting player in the IaaS market as they're one of the few currently that are offering ARM based servers. Will we see more ARM servers the next couple of years from more vendors?

Why is ARM interesting? Running android natively is one of the few things I can come up with...

Re: We are slashing the C1 price by 70 percent

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Post by voltagex_ »

lux wrote: post #4

This makes them very similar in price to Digital Ocean, even slightly cheaper. I wonder what the performance comparison would be between their equivalent tiers... Their S3-compatible object storage is also quite appealing. Being in North America though, I'd love if they had a data centre option here too.

It's 180ms from a residential Canadian connection so I'd imagine it's similar from some parts of the US. Expecting ~300ms from my Australian ADSL connection (compared to ~190ms to an LA based DigitalOcean instance).

vpsbench on Scaleway:

    CPU model:  ARMv7 Processor rev 2 (v7l)
    Number of cores: 4
    CPU frequency:  MHz
    Total amount of RAM: 2022 MB
    Total amount of swap: 0 MB
    System uptime:   10 min,
    I/O speed:  99.6 MB/s
    Bzip 25MB: 32.62s
    Download 100MB file: 70.5MB/s
Small DO instance:

    CPU model:  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 0 @ 2.30GHz
    Number of cores: 1
    CPU frequency:  2299.998 MHz
    Total amount of RAM: 494 MB
    Total amount of swap: 1023 MB
    System uptime:   40 days, 11:26,
    I/O speed:  445 MB/s
    Bzip 25MB: 8.76s
    Download 100MB file: 25.8MB/s

Re: We are slashing the C1 price by 70 percent

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Post by ddoscampaign »

This is brilliant because the main cost of running gear is power draw (PDUs / electrical circuits). Having OEM/ODM blade ARM setup a-la sgi cloudrack/supermicro is the way to drive costs to the floor, in a Backblaze/Google way. Unfortunately, it's a "Dell/Walmart model" hypercommodity where such a business has to maintain massive customer subscriptions to stay cash positive and still just trickles in $.

It's an interesting space, but if I were launching a cloud IaaS/VPS, I would probably optimize for the other extreme of "Apple model" premium/full-service expensive hosting that has fantastic uptime, gear and sales/support for enterprise/startup and IT/web operations... There's some more money in that and less headaches. (The most money seems to be in the upper-middle pricepoint area.)

Re: We are slashing the C1 price by 70 percent

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Post by sz4kerto »

"Today, we are announcing a huge price cut for Scaleway compute services. We believe that cloud computing is an amazing technology and that everybody should be able to benefit from its advantages. That's why we decided to reduce the price of the C1 to €2.99 per month or €0.006 per hour, effectively reducing the price by 70% compared to the previous price (€9.99 per month)."

Why must you say that? This is definitely untrue.

Re: We are slashing the C1 price by 70 percent

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Post by ikawe »

rmac wrote: post #12
lordlarm wrote: post #10

Scaleway is a highly interesting player in the IaaS market as they're one of the few currently that are offering ARM based servers. Will we see more ARM servers the next couple of years from more vendors?

Why is ARM interesting? Running android natively is one of the few things I can come up with...

Lower power consumption makes it possible to offer very cheap service. In some cases this will just save a few bucks, not very interesting.

But the interesting point is what kind of previously economically unviable projects are now viable.

Re: We are slashing the C1 price by 70 percent

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Post by api »

ikawe wrote: post #19
rmac wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is ARM interesting? Running android natively is one of the few things I can come up with...

Lower power consumption makes it possible to offer very cheap service. In some cases this will just save a few bucks, not very interesting. But the interesting point is what kind of previously economically unviable projects are now viable.

Total isolation is also interesting for some high-security applications.

I Tweeted to them and suggested that they offer -- at a possibly much higher price point -- a physically isolated server that must be manually provisioned by a human being. Any access would require multi-factor authentication followed by the actual dispatch of a person to retrieve the device.

This would be interesting for things like CA master signing servers, etc.

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