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ARMv7 dedicated servers for 3.40 per month

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Re: ARMv7 dedicated servers for 3.40 per month

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Post by lobster_johnson »

phantom_oracle wrote: post #31

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.

Boxes like these are extremely popular as BitTorrent seedboxes. Online.net, for example, is huge, and not just in Europe; people run FTP servers on these things and copy stuff over to their home servers. I would say that $3.40/mo is pretty competitive.

Re: ARMv7 dedicated servers for 3.40 per month

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Post by kweks »

I like the idea of the product a lot - but the question I have is how these servers stack up in an 'apples to apples' comparison (that is to say, with a DO small / medium / large instance - or an AWS small / medium / large instance) - which would allow for me to work out if it's worthwhile investing..

Re: ARMv7 dedicated servers for 3.40 per month

#43

Post by comboy »

JosephRedfern wrote: post #26
comboy wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If you'd like anything in particular running, let me know and I shall oblige when I can! bonnie++ would be great

Added: https://gist.github.com/JosephRedfern/57c81ac95bf4f1175e3e#f...

Thanks for taking time to do this.

Re: ARMv7 dedicated servers for 3.40 per month

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Post by mrmondo »

JosephRedfern wrote: post #17

I've just signed up for one of these instances - here are some speed tests/stats/details, if anyone's interested: https://gist.github.com/JosephRedfern/57c81ac95bf4f1175e3e If you'd like anything in particular running, let me know and I shall oblige when I can!

Hi, can you please run the following two fio tests:

  #Random write
  fio --randrepeat=1 --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --gtod_reduce=1 --name=test --filename=test --bs=4k --iodepth=128 --size=4G --readwrite=randwrite
  
  
  #Random Read
  fio --randrepeat=1 --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --gtod_reduce=1 --name=test --filename=test --bs=4k --iodepth=128 --size=4G --readwrite=randread

Re: ARMv7 dedicated servers for 3.40 per month

#45

Post by onli »

phantom_oracle wrote: post #31

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.

> Also, France? Same country that is trying to push privacy-unfriendly laws? Probably not a good idea to use this service for VPN then.

They are explicitly advertising VPNs, but even though I live in France I'm not sure whether the situation there is secure enough. France is collecting internet logs, and a server has its own IP, is a VPN then even useful?

> It would probably suffice as a test-box or cheap-static hosting I guess.

More than static. I installed serendipity (a blogging engine, think wordpress) there and it worked good enough for me to assume that it would work fine with medium traffic as well.

Got a pretty good impression otherwise. The thing that bothered me most was that the free test month was not a full month, but till the next accounting period – 14 days for me. Cut my time short to test it. But you can imagine that if that is my sole complain, it was fine otherwise for me. A solid site and their scripts to build images worked fine.

Re: ARMv7 dedicated servers for 3.40 per month

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Post by JosephRedfern »

mrmondo wrote: post #44
JosephRedfern wrote: post #17

I've just signed up for one of these instances - here are some speed tests/stats/details, if anyone's interested: https://gist.github.com/JosephRedfern/57c81ac95bf4f1175e3e If you'd like anything in particular running, let me know and I shall oblige when I can!

Hi, can you please run the following two fio tests: #Random write fio --randrepeat=1 --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --gtod_reduce=1 --name=test --filename=test --bs=4k --iodepth=128 --size=4G --readwrite=randwrite #Random Read fio --randrepeat=1 --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --gtod_reduce=1 --name=test --filename=test --bs=4k --iodepth=128 --size=4G --readwrite=randread

Sure - I'll get back to you in a couple of hours - I'm working right now, I'm afraid.

Re: ARMv7 dedicated servers for 3.40 per month

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Post by mrmondo »

JosephRedfern wrote: post #46
mrmondo wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi, can you please run the following two fio tests: #Random write fio --randrepeat=1 --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --gtod_reduce=1 --name=test --filename=test --bs=4k --iodepth=128 --size=4G --readwrite=randwrite #Random Read fio --randrepeat=1 --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --gtod_reduce=1 --name=test --filename=test --bs=4k --iodepth=128 --size=4G --readwrite=randread

Sure - I'll get back to you in a couple of hours - I'm working right now, I'm afraid.

Thanks, no rush, would be interesting to see. Off to sleep so I'll reply back in the morning.

Re: ARMv7 dedicated servers for 3.40 per month

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Post by puzzlingcaptcha »

Interestingly even though it's 'bare metal' you are stuck using their kernel: https://community.scaleway.com/t/official-linux-kernel-new-m...

/proc/cpuinfo hints at Armada XP so I thought mv_cesa crypto would be available but alas, no:

  # zcat /proc/config.gz | grep -i cesa
  CONFIG_CRYPTO_DEV_MV_CESA=y
 
  # grep -i cesa /proc/crypto
  #
Shame. Does anyone know what CPU is that exactly? The Soc in the picture at techcrunch seems to have a Marvell logo.

edit: it's definitely marvell, dmesg references 370_xp clocksource, armada xp pincontrol and aurora L2 cache controller.

Re: ARMv7 dedicated servers for 3.40 per month

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Post by [deleted] »

mrmondo wrote: post #44
JosephRedfern wrote: post #17

I've just signed up for one of these instances - here are some speed tests/stats/details, if anyone's interested: https://gist.github.com/JosephRedfern/57c81ac95bf4f1175e3e If you'd like anything in particular running, let me know and I shall oblige when I can!

Hi, can you please run the following two fio tests: #Random write fio --randrepeat=1 --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --gtod_reduce=1 --name=test --filename=test --bs=4k --iodepth=128 --size=4G --readwrite=randwrite #Random Read fio --randrepeat=1 --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --gtod_reduce=1 --name=test --filename=test --bs=4k --iodepth=128 --size=4G --readwrite=randread

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Re: ARMv7 dedicated servers for 3.40 per month

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Post by lorenzhs »

antjanus wrote: post #37

This was announced directly from Scaleway and was a pretty popular thread here on HN, why is an article about it on here again and just as popular?

I didn't click on the original article at the time because the title was utterly meaningless without context: "We are slashing the C1 price by 70 percent". I'm not motivated enough to figure out the context for every article, so I just skip those unless they have a very high number of points or comments. I'm probably not alone in this.
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