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Scaleway ARM or x86-64? Or which EU VPS with big SSD storage?
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Scaleway ARM or x86-64? Or which EU VPS with big SSD storage?

Hello, respected community.
Going to move one instance from USA to EU. Scaleway plans are interesting, but I can not find recent objective reviews. Someone writes "EVERYTHING LOST!!11!!! GOING TO COURT TO IMPRISON THEM!1!!", someone "Works fine for months".
My tasks for VPS are average load sites & VPN with other servers. Here on LET i read that Scaleway ARM work fine because of no overselling. As i never work with them i'm asking you to help would it

  1. work apache+nginx and openvpn?
  2. work well in principle? i mean Scaleway as provider.

And last. In case of Scaleway is not so good do you know any VPS provider in EU (no matter the country, must be present in DE-CIX and/or AMS-IX) with huge (150Gb+) SSD storage and similar to 9,99 Scaleway plan specs (4+ cores / 4Gb+ RAM / 1Tb+ band) under 10 EUR / 12 USD?

Thank to all and have a great weekend;)

Comments

  • Both are slow but the ARM is even slower than the Atom. The SSD storage is network mounted and nowhere near the speed of local SSD. Still the stuff is cheap enough that I still have to call it good value. AFAIK there is no other way to get what you're asking with that low budget.

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  • XeiXei Member
    edited January 2018

    Scaleway would be my first guess. I think UltraVPS had a storage promo recently. I don't recall the specs however it's very difficult for people to match Scaleways specs and price points afaik.

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  • How would they oversell if it is dedicated servers or do you refer to their cloud vps? Im tired dont judge :P

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  • FHRFHR Member, Host Rep

    Just a warning that Scaleway doesn't use RAID, so if the single SSD your instance is running off dies, your server will be rebuilt with a clean image and your data is lost. Be prepared for it, do periodical snapshots and preferably also your own backups.

    I have heard good things about Contabo, never tried them myself though. Their "VPS M SSD" offer could suit you - 4 cores, 12GB RAM, 300GB SSD for 9e/month.

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  • I suggest reading my review on Contabo :) Just search it here on let.

    Tl;dr: They are surely not the best choice but they are ok for what it's worth considering what you pay. There are a few hick ups here and there and my uptimerobot logs surprise me at times but other than that their support is very friendly, they've won a support hotline award by CHIP online several times in a row and are a german company which appears to be solid and professional on the support hotline.

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  • Thanks to all and huuuuuge thanks to @Ympker. I've seen Contabo's offers previous time searching EU VPSes but chose another offer found here from RootNerds (hope i'll be ready to write review of them shortly). But i forgot about them. So yeah, their regular prices are really unbeatably.

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  • jvnadrjvnadr Member
    edited January 2018

    FHR said: Just a warning that Scaleway doesn't use RAID, so if the single SSD your instance is running off dies, your server will be rebuilt with a clean image and your data is lost.

    Even if this has being said a lot of times here, I will write it once more: RAID IS NOT BACKUP. So, a disc can fail even with raid, a raid array can fail, a lot of things can happen the data to be lost. ALWAYS KEEP BACKUP.

    @MarshalChe it all depends on what will you host there (some wp sites or lot of heavy wp sites with tons of plugins, 100K visitors per day, huge databases etc.). If it's just for average load sites (e.g. 4-5 wp sites with ~10K visitors per day total and not too heavy ones), then, ARM Scaleway is just fine. SSDs are not local but network attached, still, much faster than the normal local HDDs. Even their 3€ vps is fine and fast enough.

    PS: NetCup and Contabo (with this order) are decentg providers and the NetCup root series (dedicated cores) with lots of space, is nice

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  • WSSWSS Member

    NetCup is damn good for the price.

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  • If anybody interested here is Ympker's review: https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/107757/contabo-review-vps-m-ssd

    His benchmark almost year ago: https://serverscope.io/trials/740M

    My benchmark hours ago: https://serverscope.io/trials/BBdR

  • XeiXei Member

    @MarshalChe said:

    My benchmark hours ago: https://serverscope.io/trials/BBdR

    Upload speeds are within DE so not very helpful as it's expected. Download speeds lack location so not helpful but likely DE given former statement.

  • @Xei said:

    @MarshalChe said:

    My benchmark hours ago: https://serverscope.io/trials/BBdR

    Upload speeds are within DE so not very helpful as it's expected. Download speeds lack location so not helpful but likely DE given former statement.

    Big difference in the I/O though.

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  • @Xei said:
    Upload speeds are within DE so not very helpful as it's expected. Download speeds lack location so not helpful but likely DE given former statement.

    I tried to paste the code using markdown but failed. And non-formatted results look ugly. If you are interested please follow https://paste.ubuntu.com/26431947/

    @Ympker different nodes load or something else. Really doesn't matter as i've got what i wanted. Thank you once again.

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