Scaleway Global Expansion Starts in Amsterdam

I'm loving this, I've been using scaleway as a host for a few months and they've provided great value during that time. As a Dutch national it would be great for my latency to see scaleway add some capacity to Amsterdam.

Their low end offering allows me to get up and running quickly with a new machine and experiment, without touching any existing instances or firing up a VM myself.

It's a shame transferring machines to the new region apparently isn't supported, but since I'm running on docker it shouldn't be too hard to recreqte my current instances.

I'm using Scaleway for some experimental stuff, and it's great value for that.

I did not like that I am bound to their kernel on bare metal. There are setups that require kernel modules they don't provide, like DRBD. I got the modules to compile and work in the end, but it was not fun and will probably break on some future update. This is not how I expected it to be on "bare metal".

Also that prevents you from using the Xen hypervisor, which again I would not expect from "bare metal".

You only get a single IPv4-Adress per system, which not only is a burden to virtualization, but also larger container-setups.

So I found little value in the "bare metal"-part, but it's still great value if you compare it to other VM offerings.

If you treat it like a VM (or use one of their VMs), you need to be aware that disks are not redundant and their content (or at least the changes since the last boot) are gone on a crash or hardware failure. You need to mirror or replicate it yourself, or design around it on a higher level of the stack. There is no option to attach a persistent disk that would survive a hardware failure and could be attached to a replacement host/VM.

So in the end scaleway is a weird mix for me: for rented VMs I expect the platform/provider to take care of some basic reliability and redundancy stuff. For bare metal I expect to be able to setup all of that myself without trouble.

Scaleway is probably my new favorite VPS provider atm.

It's console is way simpler than AWS.

The only things that bother me are the limited availability of ARM nodes and being unable to ~~experiment~~ use SIS.

But even with that it's still way more fun.

I was really excited about Scaleway until shit started going wrong with my test C1 box there. They sent an email asking me to update my "boot script" (kernel version). You can only do this, it seems, when the box is shut down, except there is no power management on the box. The only option they have is to copy the contents of the box to cold storage. Great. It took 4 hours or so.

When I brought the box back online it would stay online for about a day and then lock up for no reason. I spun up a new one, copied the data from the old volume to the new one. Why can't I clone or detach a volume from a running box? It was a read-only data-only volume. The copying between two boxes was at 12Mbps... In the end, the new box had the same lockup problem. Not it's not my software. It had been running without changes for 6 months prior with no downtime. Oh and in the end it locked up again and when it came back online in rescue mode, it was basically a brand new install. My home directory was gone, root password had been reset, all the configuration was not there.

Also no IPv6 for bare metal ARM boxes.

tl;dr: I moved on because of inflexible control panel and random hardware issues. Really wanted to like it.

I was checking out their terms of service (https://www.scaleway.com/terms/), a few clauses in there seem pretty restrictive, such as:

>Users are required to use decent and respectful language. All abusive, violent or hateful sentiments are totally prohibited.

>The propagation of data, images or sounds that may constitute defamation, an insult, denigration or an infringement of privacy, image rights, good morals or public order.

Does anyone who knows this better than I anticipate that this would cause problems if one wanted to host, for example, an internet message board with this service?

Obviously one would comply with DMCAs, delete illegal content, etc, but I can't imagine forcing all users to use "decent and respectful language", for example. Is this something you just generally ignore until a specific problem with the provider surfaces?

I actually love Online.net and Scaleway. The problem is just that I personally prefer to have one strong core and not 8 slow cores since single thread performance is still the most relevant thing. Even though you get 2GB RAM for 3 EUR they are still shitty CPU cores. I mean you can't expect a lot for that price but I'd prefer a shared burstable E3 or E5 core over Avaton cores. Sicne Scaleway only offers these slow cores it's not useable for me even though I love them.

Why is Scaleway so cheap compared to for instance: DigitalOcean?

I've been loving Scaleway. It's a great service and I'm glad to see they're expanding. Hopefully they'll come to the UK and North America next.

I've been a Scaleway user for a very long time (I cancelled recently in an effort to cut frivolous personal expenses). Their cheapest offerings are very slow, but they are perfect if you're looking for something extremely cheap, dedicated (with your own IP), and with unlimited traffic (!!!). Also, as people noticed here, their web console is pretty great. They even have preloaded images, I had a personal torrent server up in 2 minutes.

So does Scaleway support machines – well, snapshots or volumes – transfer across regions? That would be nice.

Is there a reason for not supporting C1 instances in Amsterdam? I was an early adopter before Scaleway started offering virtual instances, and liked the idea of running bare-metal for such a low price, but it seems it is not available in Amsterdam.

How do scaleway cores compare to digital ocean?