Am I the only person who is turned off by that kind of marketing copy? You lowered prices because you thought you could sell more nodes, gain economy of scale, serve as a loss-leader, your costs went down, something. You didn't lower the prices because you wanted to do something nice for everybody.
More likely in my estimation is that the cause and effect are reversed, and they wanted to lower prices (to gain market share, users and an advertising blurb) and that has the nice effect of opening cloud computing up to more people.
It has worked every time and competitors followed by reducing their prices as well.
Their S3-compatible object storage is also quite appealing.
Being in North America though, I'd love if they had a data centre option here too.
vpsbench on Scaleway:
CPU model: ARMv7 Processor rev 2 (v7l)
Number of cores: 4
CPU frequency: MHz
Total amount of RAM: 2022 MB
Total amount of swap: 0 MB
System uptime: 10 min,
I/O speed: 99.6 MB/s
Bzip 25MB: 32.62s
Download 100MB file: 70.5MB/s
CPU model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 0 @ 2.30GHz
Number of cores: 1
CPU frequency: 2299.998 MHz
Total amount of RAM: 494 MB
Total amount of swap: 1023 MB
System uptime: 40 days, 11:26,
I/O speed: 445 MB/s
Bzip 25MB: 8.76s
Download 100MB file: 25.8MB/sI just created a test instance with them and ran an open source project of mine. It runs just as fast as anywhere else, but compiling it takes 5 times as long. Investigating further to see if it's just something about my (weird) project.
Edit: ah pella posted a comment at the same time as me with details on just how slow the ARM CPU is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10161307. The benchmarks linked there are 15x slower on single-threaded workloads.
"In all my tests, the performance of their servers was slower compared to DigitalOcean, but this could be because they are using Network drivers(LSSD) and a 32bit ARM architecture(armv7l)"
https://www.amon.cx/blog/scaleway-vs-digitalocean-and-deploy...
"How does the SSD storage perform?
SSD drives provide excellent performances with a really low latency. They perform especially well with random access patterns. Our SSD storage provide an average latency of 550 μs (550 microseconds) when a traditional rotating drive has a latency of several miliseconds.
We provide 2000 IOPS (an IO is a 4K random read or write access) per 50GB chunk you buy. It means that if you buy a 150GB volume (3 chunks), you will get about 6000 IOPS (3x2000).
To enjoy the performance of your volume, your application needs to use parallel IO. The total bandwidth of your volumes is limited to 120MB/s by the network link."
I really just wanted a cheap server for Minecraft.
Also I think its important to note that they (currently) only offer one very "small" server model, so your whole application would have to be able to scale horizontally really well to be able to run on such infrastructure. So you can't have a few big database servers and a lot of small stateless application servers, which I belive is a very typical architecture today.
Also if you want to scale horizontally, you probably want to scale on more than one datacenter (online provides that too).
Also, they are offering VPC by default, the nodes seem to have only one network interface which defaults to private network, and external traffic is routed to private network with specific firewall rules. Also, they are offering ip failover, I think you can attach or move external ips at runtime between servers without configuring anything on the nodes (just from API).
For online.net I know they are offering DDOS protection for higher priced servers, I'm now sure if they are supporting this for scaleway, but you can always reverse proxy from online.net server to scaleway to achieve horizontal scalability if this is an issue.
Good point that they seem to be missing multiple availability zones.
A lot can be forgiven at that price.
Clicking through just lands me on the scaleway homepage. Can anybody shed some light on this? Clicking around their site and couldn't see any mention of it.
[1] http://www.online.net/img/carousel/cloud.jpg screengrab: http://imgur.com/cuvZlgb
I can think of several good reasons to use American Express, despite it being somewhat less widely accepted. But Discover doesn't seem to have any obvious value over a MasterCard or Visa.
[1]https://www.discover.com/credit-cards/help-center/account/in...
But the interesting point is what kind of previously economically unviable projects are now viable.
It's an interesting space, but if I were launching a cloud IaaS/VPS, I would probably optimize for the other extreme of "Apple model" premium/full-service expensive hosting that has fantastic uptime, gear and sales/support for enterprise/startup and IT/web operations... There's some more money in that and less headaches. (The most money seems to be in the upper-middle pricepoint area.)
A few weeks ago, I'd say "You mean AWS", but after this morning, and a few other incidents over the last few weeks, I don't think anyone can do fantastic uptime in a virtualized/cloud environment.
There's the rub, isn't it? Companies want to compete on quality, but if you're supposed to architect your application(s) for failure, uptime becomes a lot less important. You then only have price to compete on.
I know Twilio runs in both AWS and Rackspace, depending on various KPIs for shifting load. Seems to be the way the world is headed. I'm curious if containerization like Docker predicts CDNs running your containers for you at the edge...
It will be interesting to see if this has any effect on open-source Saas businesses. I.e. "We'll host it for you or you can host it yourself for free" - for example, ghost.
Hosting it for me has definitely has its level of remove-hassle advantages, but if such software is easy to install and low maint, then it becomes notably cheaper to grab a VPS for it.
[0] https://forum.online.net/index.php?/topic/4642-do-you-allow-...
Changes might be backported to OpenBSD later, but Bitrig might be available soon: https://github.com/bitrig/bitrig/issues/65
Not yet, this is in our mid term roadmap. We developed our own routers and switches to get as many features as possible. Some work is still needed to integrate IPv6 with all security features."
Why must you say that? This is definitely untrue.
Zero problems since January.
This hardware is perfect to host a DNS server. Unlike a VM, the performance is predictable, and setting up the server couldn't be any easier.
Not a bad choice to host Docker containers (Docker works fine on this architecture) that don't require tons of memory.
They have quite a lot of Linux distributions available, but I'm even more excited about the Bitrig port which is being worked on.
