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Call for Scaleway reviews
Hey,
I have been seeing mixed reviews for Scaleway on the internet, including LET. I know some hosting providers may improve or get worse over time.. so at this current time, if you use scaleway, please provide your feedback. My main interest is in their dedicated servers starting at 2.99 Euros per month.
Questions:
1. How do you feel about your current service?
2. Do you have free reinstalls on OS?
3. Do you have unlimited free reintalls on OS?
4. Are reinstalls automated do you have to submit a ticket? if ticket, what is average turnaround time?
Comments
https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/ is the reference link for pricing.
Never used them, hear mixed reviews, but why ask us, you already said you think we are useless here and this forum is pointless.
Just test it yourself for free http://instantcloud.io/
Tried arm "dedicated" server and did not like it.
The main issue is, it is not really fully "dedicated", storage is still shared/network based and "not very fast".
CPU itself is slow too, with very low single-core performance, and no hardware aes...
It may be good for experimentation, but for any real task simple kvm vps with the same price will be better IMO.
@Gamma17 they have been offering Atom (server edition) based dedis too for some time now.
The disks are sluggish networked SSDs without any RAID or duplication. The only plan with a local SSD is the most expensive one.
@bersy The Avotons are still slower than your typical Xeon
Software RAID is actually supported, albeit with some reservations.
Yes, sir, and that's obvious.
@bersy Even then, it's not fair to call networked storage 'Local Volumes' when these disks are anything but local
I wonder where exactly did you find term 'local' regarding their SSD storage volumes?
I have one in AMS (€2.99 one , non-arm cores), they are using the Avoton C2750 CPU's on their host nodes. Performance is a bit meh, SSD's are network attached, getting around 200MB/s I/O.
I can max the network at around 200-220Mbps, but that's it, not higher, although the guaranteed speed is 200Mbps.
I tried using OpenVPN on this server, but I could not get past 35-40Mbps download and upload speed, while on my PIA VPN I can get around 350Mbps download and upload (this is on a 500/500 fiber home connection).
It's great for testing purposes, and maybe for hosting a small website, but that's about it.
Right on the page you linked:
Yes, but they use network storage too and you can buy the same machines for similar price from online.net, where they have physical hdd/ssd... what's the point in buying them from scaleway?
Scaleway is more flexible than, say, a Dedibox SC/XC.
If you need a machine just for a few hours/weeks, you can just spin up an instance, use it, shut it down, snapshot it and delete it.
Then you can spin up another instance from your snapshot when you need it again. And you are charged only for the snapshot creation and storage costs in this case.
I'm happy with them except reinstalling OS. I don't know how to reinstall OS so I terminated current server and bought new one. It costs me a lot.
@cheapwebdev and @Vbro There is no Reinstall OS feature. People have been asking for it since April 2015 and it's still not there.
Here's a fresh benchmark of the C1 if someone wants it:
I asked this from their support team, They said, start docker server then install OS to other docker image. I don't understand this at all.
Well the price is amazing and the machines itself are pretty reliable, the problem is that it has a lot of drawbacks. The storage system is a mess, you only can get 1 IP, Atom cores are very slow and most software runs way better on better single thread performance compared to 8 very slow atom cores. Also one might think that you can add 15x 150 GB SSD storage volumes (as stated on their pricing page) but there is a maximum GB limit, so you are only able to add 15x 50GB or something because the overall storage is limited.
The object storage is sold out for ages and they disabled the webinterface for that completely. Last time I checked the amsterdam location, the routing (from germany) sucked big time, because they routed everything through paris, so you have additional latency even if you are closer to their AMS location.
So my conclusion is that if you just need a lot of RAM and don't need single thread performance or any extras these machines are awesome. Otherwise they suck and I would prefer any regular VPS.
You dont need to do that. Its indeed confusing. To reinstall the OS, you simply need to:
Terminate the previous server
Start a new server with the Image you want and using the reserved IP attached to your previous server.
There is no additional cost, this will only cost the normal fees related to a running server with a reserved IP.
This shit not load correctly or busy every time.
Using their 2.99 ARM server (Paris location) since October 2015 (hosting some internal sites and a private Subversion repository).
Steady service. Didn't need to reinstall OS, monitoring shows at least 99.99% uptime. Personally, I think they're just fine.
I've been using one of their 2.99 KVM VPSes for the past 3 months and I think Scaleway is pretty good. Sure there's some crappy things about them (that have already been mentioned in this thread) but they're still great for the price.
Here's a quick ioping, dd, and network speed test from my cheap Scaleway VPS:
good luck finding a better shit man
Biggest disadvantage is that Scaleway does not have reserved IPv6. They promised it 1.5 years ago, but still nothing. You only get a random /127 IPv6, lost upon machine restart.
Please provide reference for 2.99 euros on online.net
Could you please stop, reposting the Fucking Hitler movie with Subtitles?
anyone can comment on the AMS location? has the routing improved since they started offering the location? or does it still do weird routes for outside of NL
This is after ~25 days of experience.
I got an AMS VPS, got a french IP instead of NL. Thought I must've fucked up so I tried to get another NL IP. Ended up with 2 french IPs.
Routing hasn't improved one bit and the CPU/disk performance is sub-par.
If you have a better budget, go for online.net. The only thing good with Scaleway is the pricing and uptime.
VPS is not up for question here... but thanks for sharing.
I was talking about x86 offers... the cheapest one is 11.99, which is somewhere in between dedibox sc and xc....
As for arm yes, it is probably the cheapest "dedicated server" you can find, but it is not trully dedicated with shared network storage capped at 2k iops...
Also it is very easy to try as you can pay hourly, and trying will be most likely the best solution, it may be still suitable for your needs with all the disadvantages...