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Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Re: Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Post by jmngomes »

...providing that they can actually and predictably supply the servers.

My experience with Scaleway was essentially this: they advertise that you can have virtual servers with up to 10 150GB SSD volumes, so I signed up and created a virtual server with two 150GB volumes. After several attempts over three days, the server wouldn't start at all; it never actually started.

Scaleway's support told me that "it's because there are no available nodes matching your configuration." and "If our stock is low then there is more chance that the only free nodes are "default" ones, with 200GB available only". The solution, according to their support, would be to "keep trying to start the server until it works".

So, they'll sell you a vServer but can't guarantee when you'll be able to spin up the machine.

For me, it was a terrible experience, and Scaleway's "customer support" forums will give you a good grasp of what you're in for if you buy their service.

Re: Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Post by dspillett »

megous wrote: post #5
Zekio wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

so them blocking a port that can be used for sending Spam mail, without you identifying yourself, is shady?

Yes. But who cares, there are many better services.

Care to name the one(s) you recommend and why?

Re: Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Post by ryanlol »

tombowditch wrote: post #6
thereandhere wrote: post #2

Is one still required to submit all their personal information (ID card details, proof of address, etc.) before the servers can be useful? Previously you had to do it, or SMTP ports (etc.) would be blocked until you did. If that's still the case, is it at least made known that the servers are crippled, prior to starting your account creation process (previously it wasn't, which I found shady)? My experience so far is…

IMO, requesting identity is perfectly normal - albeit a bit annoying, but I get the point. Take Hetzner, for example.

Bullshit it's normal. Only a couple of hosts do this.

Don't try to normalize this stuff, there's no reason hosting companies should need scans of their customers IDs.

Re: Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Post by LaurentGh »

drdaeman wrote: post #8
Aissen wrote: post #4

What's nice is that simply turning the server on and off allows you to move the faster machines :-)

Except that you may suddenly encounter that servers were out of stock, someone just got lucky with the slot you've freed and now you can't power your server back on. ;-) Not sure about VPSes, but this had happened to me once with a C1 server.

More details are needed, it looks like a good story.

Re: Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Post by drdaeman »

LaurentGh wrote: post #16
drdaeman wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except that you may suddenly encounter that servers were out of stock, someone just got lucky with the slot you've freed and now you can't power your server back on. ;-) Not sure about VPSes, but this had happened to me once with a C1 server.

More details are needed, it looks like a good story.

Well, I don't exactly remember what I was doing (it was, like, an year ago or so), but I've de-provisioned a C1 to temporarily release its system volume as I wanted to attach it to another server (to make changes there). IIRC, I've messed up my root partition a little bit, had some nbd issues with recovery kernel, and decided to just reattach the volume to another C1 instead. And then, basically, what I wrote - someone got lucky and got the computing resources I've freed, so I wasn't able to spin things up.

Re: Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Post by iMerNibor »

ryanlol wrote: post #14
tombowditch wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMO, requesting identity is perfectly normal - albeit a bit annoying, but I get the point. Take Hetzner, for example.

Bullshit it's normal. Only a couple of hosts do this. Don't try to normalize this stuff, there's no reason hosting companies should need scans of their customers IDs.

It's usually the low budget hosts that do this, since those will attract more shady "customers"

Easy way to get rid of those

Re: Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Post by ddorian43 »

option_greek wrote: post #12

I checked them out after using GCP, AWS and its unbelievable how much slower their servers are. I some times wonder how anyone other than AWS/GCP/Azure even survive in this competitive market.

Many people think the same for GCP,AWS when you compare their VPS with dedicated hardware. Though the managed services are nice.

Re: Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Post by drdaeman »

Aissen wrote: post #10
drdaeman wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except that you may suddenly encounter that servers were out of stock, someone just got lucky with the slot you've freed and now you can't power your server back on. ;-) Not sure about VPSes, but this had happened to me once with a C1 server.

Did it happen to you on a VC1 (now Start-XXX) ? These are virtual servers.

No, I've only ever used their baremetal offerings (C1 and C2s). Sans the few oddities, I think they're quite good for the price, at least for various toy/sandbox stuff. It could be that this kind of situation can't happen on VC1 (Start-XXX) - as I wrote, I'm not sure.
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