Scaleway C2 Ramp Up: 10 000 BareMetal Servers per Month
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Scaleway C2 Ramp Up: 10 000 BareMetal Servers per Month
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Re: Scaleway C2 Ramp Up: 10 000 BareMetal Servers per Month
#2Has anyone already tried scaleways C2 instances and can share some insights? I've tried their other offers (not BareMetal) and had mixed results.
Re: Scaleway C2 Ramp Up: 10 000 BareMetal Servers per Month
#3Has anyone already tried scaleways C2 instances and can share some insights? I've tried their other offers (not BareMetal) and had mixed results.
Beware: their servers do not use ECC memory.
I believe building reliable, internet-scale services on such hardware is impossible. Having single bit errors, which are hardly rare [0], silently propagate is a recipe for disaster.
I applaud Scaleway for the foresight of building custom, sale-out hardware, however, that this is their second effort and still lacking in ECC use is very, very, disappointing.
I would love to use this hardware, it's almost the perfect design, but it's tragically flawed as is.
[0] DRAM Errors in the Wild: A Large-Scale Field Study http://research.google.com/pubs/pub35162.html