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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?
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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.
...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…
What's nice is that simply turning the server on and off allows you to move the faster machines :-)
How?
> All VC1 users can upgrade to Start servers without any price change.
> To upgrade your existing VC1 server, simply do a power off and a power on your server. Your server will start on a Next-Gen Start Hypervisor with increased performances and for the same price as before. You may already be running on a new hypervisor if you created your server recently. New hypervisors are powered by Intel Denverton CPUs instead of Avoton.
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?
Been running high-bandwidth stuff there for a while, no issues. They really don't seem to mind high-bandwidth applications.
Does someone have a benchmark of the new cpus in the start-instances vs the older X86 baremetal servers, C2S and higher?
With UnixBench single thread:
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Old VC1: Intel Atom C2750 @ 2.40GHz
Dhrystone 2: 12029634 lps
Double-Precision Whetstone: 1984 MWIPS
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New Start1: Intel Atom C3955 @ 2.10GHz
Dhrystone 2: 22143815 lps
Double-Precision Whetstone: 3165 MWIPS
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Other tests that I performed also showed a ~60% performance increase, except for some compression tests that only gained ~45%.
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.