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C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers

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Re: C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers

#121

Dammit. Cheap - very cheap - for everything but storage. It seems impossible to find a low-cost server with some big, slow spinning disks on it at the moment. I'm really not sure why. Anyone got any recommendations there? Where would I look, if anywhere, for, say, 4Tb of storage attached to a low-cost virtual or dedicated server, for less than Google Nearline or equivalent?

Hetzner will give you a server with 24TB for €82/month, or 5TB FTP space at €26/month

Re: C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers

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post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Go's net/http framework uses a go routine per connection.

For my understanding: One request is executed on serveral cores?

I don't know about Go but Elixir/Erlang has a concurrency model that spreads one request workload over several cores.

Re: C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers

#125

Where are Scaleway's data centers located? I found mention on their site that they're a Paris-based company, but is this the only geographical location for their offerings?

Seems the data centers are also hosted in the Paris area:

https://www.scaleway.com/faq/general/

"The service is hosted in our own datacenters, Iliad’s datacenters, DC2 and DC3. Both are located near Paris, France."

I have to say this is quite an interesting offer, especially for private/side projects. Currently I rent a virtual server at Hetzner, which costs me 23 € / month and is way below the specs mentioned on the Scaleways page, so I am compelled to switch, provided reliablity is good.

Re: C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers

#128

Where are Scaleway's data centers located? I found mention on their site that they're a Paris-based company, but is this the only geographical location for their offerings?

Seems the data centers are also hosted in the Paris area: https://www.scaleway.com/faq/general/ "The service is hosted in our own datacenters, Iliad’s datacenters, DC2 and DC3. Both are located near Paris, France." I have to say this is quite an interesting offer, especially for private/side projects. Currently I rent a virtual server at Hetzner, which costs me 23 € / month and is way below the specs mentioned on the…

The problem is the latency (if your customers are in America).

Re: C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers

#129

Where are Scaleway's data centers located? I found mention on their site that they're a Paris-based company, but is this the only geographical location for their offerings?

Seems the data centers are also hosted in the Paris area: https://www.scaleway.com/faq/general/ "The service is hosted in our own datacenters, Iliad’s datacenters, DC2 and DC3. Both are located near Paris, France." I have to say this is quite an interesting offer, especially for private/side projects. Currently I rent a virtual server at Hetzner, which costs me 23 € / month and is way below the specs mentioned on the…

Interesting. I'm currently using servers by OVH, which compete in the same low-end segment using their Kimsufi[1] offering, and have datacenters in France, Canada and Germany.

Paris is close to me, so these might be interesting for VNC or other low-latency applications.

[1] http://kimsufi.com

Re: C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers

#130

Where are Scaleway's data centers located? I found mention on their site that they're a Paris-based company, but is this the only geographical location for their offerings?

Seems the data centers are also hosted in the Paris area: https://www.scaleway.com/faq/general/ "The service is hosted in our own datacenters, Iliad’s datacenters, DC2 and DC3. Both are located near Paris, France." I have to say this is quite an interesting offer, especially for private/side projects. Currently I rent a virtual server at Hetzner, which costs me 23 € / month and is way below the specs mentioned on the…

Bummer, if they had (or if they eventually open) something here in the states, this would begin to look very attractive.
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