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Re: Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Post by reacweb »

PaulKeeble wrote: post #22
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…

hello, my personal website is running on a scaleway C1 (dirt cheap baremetal arm) since 3 oct 2015. There were some network issues the first months. No problem since. My main administrative task is: apt-get update/upgrade every week and backup of my site every couple of month.

Re: Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Post by macdice »

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…

FWIW I have had a positive experience with their super low cost small ARMv8 instances, which help me test PostgreSQL patches-in-development on that architecture. (It'd be even better if they had a FreeBSD image available.)

Re: Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Post by the_common_man »

ViViDboarder wrote: post #26
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.

How are you running your email? Is it you primary email?

Re: Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Post by megous »

dspillett wrote: post #13
megous wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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

Rather not, I'm still glad it's not very well known in SV or mentioned on HN. Sorry.

I tried scaleway, and I'm glad I didn't try to move my personal SMTP server there.

The other issue was that I can't run my own kernel there, which was also non-obvious before purchasing. They make it look like it's baremetal, but it's limited in this way.

Now I'm on a fully virtualized vmware VM where I can do pretty much anything, including running a kernel with WireGuard included. And it's half the price of 1-XS for the same specs and no blocked ports and no uploading of my ID somewhere I don't trust.

Re: Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Post by dx034 »

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.

If you only want a server, OVH/Hetzner are much cheaper for the same performance. To me, AWS/GCP/Azure only really make sense if you start using the whole ecosystem. Otherwise you can get the same for half the price..

Re: Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Post by edko »

What's the catch with the unlimited traffic? Can I use their servers to deliver large content files to a large group of users, with only the advertised bandwidth as the limitation? Or do they decrease bandwidth after a certain amount of traffic?

Re: Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Post by aexaey »

reacweb wrote: post #31
PaulKeeble wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

hello, my personal website is running on a scaleway C1 (dirt cheap baremetal arm) since 3 oct 2015. There were some network issues the first months. No problem since. My main administrative task is: apt-get update/upgrade every week and backup of my site every couple of month.

  > apt-get update/upgrade every week
Have a look at: https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades

Re: Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Post by pnutjam »

reacweb wrote: post #31
PaulKeeble wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

hello, my personal website is running on a scaleway C1 (dirt cheap baremetal arm) since 3 oct 2015. There were some network issues the first months. No problem since. My main administrative task is: apt-get update/upgrade every week and backup of my site every couple of month.

Looks like that's a physical, not a virtual.

Re: Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Post by geostyx »

edko wrote: post #36

What's the catch with the unlimited traffic? Can I use their servers to deliver large content files to a large group of users, with only the advertised bandwidth as the limitation? Or do they decrease bandwidth after a certain amount of traffic?

I ran 173TB combined up/down last month without ever being throttled on their C2L instance. I've run 583TB through it in the last 5 months. It even bursts to 2.2Gbps every few minutes.

Re: Scaleway – NVMe SSD Servers and Hot Snapshot

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Post by tgsovlerkhgsel »

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.

Price - traffic is included (while GCP/AWS charge a lot for it, and a sudden surge in traffic could lead to an unexpected bill), and the server costs a fraction of what a small server would cost on GCP/AWS (except for the shared-CPU instances which I found to be slower than Scaleway once the throttling hit).

If you want to run a business, Scaleway's lack of reliability (servers often sell out etc.) may be a problem. If you're a hobbyist, the potential bandwidth bill from GCP/AWS is a show-stopper, and the Scaleway servers are more than good enough for many applications.

Regarding the slowness, are you talking about CPU speed, I/O, or network?

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