Scaleway's data centre in the catacombs, 26 metres under Paris
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There are a handful of companies that have underground data-centers, but I think it's mostly hype. Creating functional (real) bunkers at that scale is very expensive. When I look at bunkers, the first things I look for is how many bars of pressure they are rated for. A nuclear bunker must be rated for at least 8 bars. Getting permits for underground generators and fuel tanks is also very expensive.
Maybe the seemingly advanced building techniques they described in the blog post are also required to build an above-ground datacenter. Or the cost of doing it (and doing it below ground) isn't drastically greater.
> With city space ever scarcer and more expensive, but latency requirements only increasing, companies have been looking at innovative ways of getting data centres closer to the action.
It doesn't specifically say this is the reason Scaleway did it, but it could make sense if there's a bunch of tech firms located nearby and the above-ground real estate is expensive.
That is, of-course, until they decided to up the price on my tier by almost 60% with very short notice. Same box I'd been running for years, no upgrades or nothing aside from a shiny new price tag...
better title: "Scaleway's data centre in a bunker, 26 meters under Paris"
They also have no managed DNS! You've got to setup your own DNS servers!
The server setup does seem tool though. Also, how did a Register link get through? I thought that site was banned on HN.
What's the reason for it being banned?
Oh deary me, why should that be? Just because the journos are snarky and sarcastic, or because it's pretending to be a red-top?
... or is it because it's mostly written in Perl?
Very soon after El Reg was bought by the Daily Mail, there was a very noticeable change in the writing. It had always been snarky and sarcastic, but in amusing way - afterwards it was snarky and sarcastic, but in a kind of hateful, "fake outrage", unmistakable Daily Mail kind of way.
I'd read El Reg almost every day for a decade before the Dailly Mail bought them, but I just couldn't stand it afterwards. A real shame.
(If you haven't read us for a while, then please why not try us again. We're still snarky but I like to think our sarcasm and skepticism is precisely deployed as and when it's needed rather than as a scattergun. And above all, puns, jokes, and irreverence aside, we strive to be technical and correct.)
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I'll give it another try, as long as the BOFH is still around, obv.
I have never had problems with the API. Is this documentation missing something?
https://developers.scaleway.com/en/products/instance/api/
There is also a scaleway cli that has also not given me any problems:
During the event mentioned in ElReg, the keynote listed about 90-100 new features/products scheduled between now & early next year, amongst them DNS apis ;)