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Also, France? Same country that is trying to push privacy-unfriendly laws? Probably not a good idea to use this service for VPN then.
It would probably suffice as a test-box or cheap-static hosting I guess.
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The bandwidth is capped far below the max I assume, does that not provide a stable 200 mbit for everyone?
Unlikely...If there are 912 blades per server it would require 20Gbps of dedicated capacity per server. Having played around with Scaleway servers, they have at least a two cabinets of these servers (10-20 servers). Online.net's total network capacity is in the realm of 1Tbps. They would have to dedicated anywhere from 20-40% of their network capacity if they were to guarantee 200mbit
Is the storage attached directly to the box or is it a SAN? I'd like to use one of these for a personal email server, but don't want to bother if a fried disk or disk controller would result in significant downtime for my email.
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Fixed this up, sorry, don't have a lot of knowledge about ARM architecture.
Tangential rant: What is wrong with CPU manufacturers in particular? What do they gain from giving everything the most confusing names possible? Sockets LGA1155, LGA1150, LGA1151. CPUs only differentiated by a jumble of digits anymore. Something is seriously wrong with your product naming strategy when it needs to be clarified that ARM7 != ARMv7.
It's definitely not random, at least not with Intel. ARM is confusing as hell though. Part of the issue is that there is the ARM Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) that has different versions, and then there are different ARM CPU architectures, but those two don't necessarily need to correspond.
Comments on HN normally provide both sides to the story, so I am hoping someone with deep/vast server knowledge and the VPS market will provide a critique of why this is "not so good". Also, France? Same country that is trying to push privacy-unfriendly laws? Probably not a good idea to use this service for VPN then. It would probably suffice as a test-box or cheap-static hosting I guess.
As opposed to all those famously Switzerland-based companies such as AWS, Heroku, DigitalOcean...
Comments on HN normally provide both sides to the story, so I am hoping someone with deep/vast server knowledge and the VPS market will provide a critique of why this is "not so good". Also, France? Same country that is trying to push privacy-unfriendly laws? Probably not a good idea to use this service for VPN then. It would probably suffice as a test-box or cheap-static hosting I guess.
I suggest you look into eastern europe where you can purchase server time in BTC.
Comments on HN normally provide both sides to the story, so I am hoping someone with deep/vast server knowledge and the VPS market will provide a critique of why this is "not so good". Also, France? Same country that is trying to push privacy-unfriendly laws? Probably not a good idea to use this service for VPN then. It would probably suffice as a test-box or cheap-static hosting I guess.