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Running some €2.99/Month Cloud Packages and they are working great
Better to say Scaleway with Anybody
another offline.net product
Mine has been reliable
no problems for me
Mine is working great as well.
last month i did ~100TB transfer on single vc1s per month
why not for that money xD //but sure offline.net product ^^
100TB is around 3TB/day, which is 125Gb/hour or 2Gb/min.
To download 2Gb/min, you need, at least, 34mbps, that's pretty fast.
No particular issues other than some occasional lag to the storage. €0.50 just to create a snapshot though and then €1 per month.
The VPS offerings seemed fine when I used them, though admittedly I didn't use them for anything serious. I had a Dedibox SC 2016 for a a couple of months but canceled it after it started suffering from the infamous slow disk bug that they apparently still haven't fixed.
I keep running into routing issues with them. And support is not helpful at all.
For example a scaleway server simply wont be able to access some other server, all traffic stops in their network. I found that it can be fixed by changing the IP of the scaleway server.
But its super annoying and support simply tries to prove that the problem is the firewall on that remote server that is dropping the connection. After giving all the proof they say "we will look into it" and thats it, it keeps happening at random once every 2 months or so with completely different networks. So I stopped using them for anything important.
Your math is off. 100mbit/s is 30TB/month. 100TB would equal 333mbit/s, which is pretty DAMN fast.
Sorry, my bad. I mean 34MB/s, which is 340mbit/s.
You're math is wrong :P
1MB/s = 8Mbit/s
So 34MB/s would be 272Mbit/s
So, I'm double wrong.
I'm not really into math.
Their first level support is definitely garbage, they don't even understand basic networking. I once asked them to confirm that NAT is not supported for non-dedicated-IPv4 servers, after getting useless replies from like 5 people finally someone competent showed up.
Overall, you get what you pay for with Scaleway. It's not as cheap as it seems. Storage is kinda slow, and the cheaper VMs all run on Atom C2000 cores. Also, you are limited to the kernels they provide, even on the dedicated machines.
With the recent price drops, I'd definitely recommend Linode, Vutlr or BuyVM instead though, they probably perform better for the same money.
None of them have the same features set and specs for such a low price though. Buyvm will once they have hourly billing and deployment via API but at the moment they don't. Vultr and Linode cost heaps more for the same specs.
I see BuyVM offers 1/4 core, I didn't see something like this. The minimum with Vultr, DO, Linode is 1 core. Is it worth it?
I don't get it....?
Scaleway is no longer reliable. Try to archive your server and then loose all that data. Bug is active for a few months now. https://status.online.net/index.php?do=details&task_id=851
You're not alone. I had a mail server there for testing a setup and I can never reach that IP from AT&T. I'm sure it's not their fault but the thing about low price is there's a price too low for even me to want to fool around with troubleshooting some things.
Not all specs are equal. IO is not great on Scaleway because their "SSD" storage is implemented over the network. A single Xeon core will easily outperform the 2, possibly even the 4 Atom cores you get with Scaleway. The only area where Scaleway is a clear winner is in the RAM department.
I'm looking forward to them introducing C3000 based servers though, they will be perfect as low end VM hosts.
Uhm, to be honest if you asked in these exact words, it's no wonder it took support a while to decipher what you mean.
Haha yea I couldn't think of the proper term there, but no that is of course not what I sent them. They did understand my question, but they weren't able to communicate that they did. Here's what they replied:
With no mention of either a) NAT or b) IPv4, any bullshitter could have just made that up.
Most budget hosts have bad support though, it's not meant as criticism.
What about taking overheads into factors here...
:P
They are good.
Also, everyone blatantly assumed transfer = download and not download + upload.
They network like yoyo, since I cant get 7 mbps everytime I'm out and move to ovh
Overhead is still counted as traffic
The 1 core on Vultr/DO/Linode is potentially shared with N other users. I'm told in practice that you get nearly the full core at first, but if you use it for a long time, your share gets lower and lower as you compute more. With BuyVM, 1/4 of a core (well ok, hardware thread, but it's an E3 server that is faster than most of the V/D/L servers which are usually ~2 ghz E5's) is dedicated to you, and you can burst above it if more capacity is available, which it usually is. You can get throttled over time but never below the dedicated 1/4 core.