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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 atkbrah »

Aissen wrote: post #4

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

I tried doing this to my AMS1 region VC1L server but after powering off/on the server it was still using the old hypervisor (C2xxx atom). I noticed that the Start Range servers are all out of stock so I suppose they did fallback to old ones.

(I've already opened a ticket with them).

Edit: Just received a second message from them. Turns out I a missed part of their blog post that says that the update is not yet available in AMS1 region.

Re: Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Post by PaulKeeble »

jmngomes wrote: post #11

...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 t…

I also found that in addition to that even when the server was available I had a bunch of problems even getting it to start. Their customised images just seemed to not work that day.

Once I finally got the image started I then attempted a basic update && dist-upgrade and find myself looking at a bunch of errors, they had reconfigured the entirity of their image to point at their own caches, but thoses caches weren't there.

I finally contacted support and their answer was that this was my fault for choosing an old Ubunutu instance (I hadn't it was new ish). I went to the forums and all I found was people with major stability issues, problems with availability and broken images. They are cheap but awful both in basic delivery and in customer support. It is not worth wasting your time with. It cost me 5 cent just to mess around and not get anywhere and that was mostly a ridiculous bill after they wasted my time so incredibly and I never got a working box.

This is not a company worth dealing with.

Re: Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Post by [deleted] »

jmngomes wrote: post #11

...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 t…

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Re: Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Post by ViViDboarder »

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.

I’m using it for personal hosting and it’s way cheaper than others. The speed isn’t a big deal for a Nextcloud or Gogs server since I am the only user.

I wouldn’t use it for any large web service though.

Re: Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Post by giancarlostoro »

jmngomes wrote: post #11

...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 t…

That is horrifying... Don't sell me a virtual server if the hardware isn't remotely close to being available. I understand fronting me a bit on resources other than storage, but dang.

Re: Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Post by ViViDboarder »

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…

I don’t believe they do this now.

I am using Scaleway for hosting my own mail server and never sent them an ID. They have my credit card info, of course, but that’s it.

Re: Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Post by vidarh »

PascalW wrote: post #9

Last I looked at Scaleway what put me off was the fact that their storage was not backed by RAID [1]. Compared to other, comparably priced providers like Hetzner and OVH that do use RAID this is a big caveat IMHO. Of course important data should be backed up remotely but disks fail and I'm not willing to deal with the hassle of restoring data simply because a single disk failed. [1] https://www.scaleway.com/faq/serve…

Different use cases. If your servers are sufficiently redundant, then RAID is a waste of money, and you might be better off getting more capacity for your money.

But for critical data, or data where you can't scale out as easily, of course, that's another matter.

I won't use RAID for services I have 10 identical copies of and health checks, but I will for the database server that is a pain if I have to fail over or restore, in other words.

Re: Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Post by a2tech »

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.

Pretty much every physical hosting provider I use (i.e. a company that provides physical boxes or slots in a data center) have required a scan of an ID to setup your account.

So yeah, pretty normal.

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Post by Avamander »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #25
jmngomes wrote: post #11

...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 t…

That is horrifying... Don't sell me a virtual server if the hardware isn't remotely close to being available. I understand fronting me a bit on resources other than storage, but dang.

The annoying thing about that is when you create a server they ask money for reserved IPs (and if I remember correctly the HDDs) even if the server isn't being used or never spun up. I paid my 26 cents to them for nothing and those were the last cents they saw from me.

Re: Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Post by ryanlol »

a2tech wrote: post #28
ryanlol wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Pretty much every physical hosting provider I use (i.e. a company that provides physical boxes or slots in a data center) have required a scan of an ID to setup your account. So yeah, pretty normal.

If you're physically going into the DC, yeah that's normal.

ID scans for colo with remote hands? Nah.

We're quite far from either of those anyway.

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