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I love seeing cloud providers offering better deals, the more the merrier! However, I still have yet to find a better deal than the one Scaleway offers. ~$3/mo

I love seeing cloud providers offering better deals, the more the merrier! However, I still have yet to find a better deal than the one Scaleway offers. ~$3/mo for a dual-core, 2GB RAM, 50GB SSD host. They also support terraform, rancher, swarm, etc. Been using them for a few months and haven't had a single complaint.

Karunamon 10y ago
I probably wouldn't host a blog there. Their ToS[1] has, among other things: - A prohibition against 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 - Users are required to use decent and respectful language - Users are reminded that they must update software without excessive delay when a security failing is noted by the user or the software publisher or Scaleway This reads like: If you might offend anyone by the standards of the French, or might use strong language, or don't run the latest version of everything, this isn't the service for you. On the positive side, they lack the litany of restricted services that most hosting companies I've seen provide, and I don't see any prohibitions against using your paid for resources to their maximum, so that's good. US customers should note that all of their prices are in Euro, so -- for exchange rate shenanigans and currency exchange fees on most credit cards. There's no selector to show prices in USD. [1]: https://www.scaleway.com/terms/ https://www.scaleway.com/terms/
- mthoms 10y ago
  On the other hand, being hosted in the EU means the data is (at least in theory) out of reach for US government agencies.
- ve55 10y ago
  I was concerned about this as well. I use Scaleway but I don't host any websites with notable content there. I haven't heard much about these terms being held against users, so I'm not sure how much action there would really be behind this type of stuff. With that said, it is definitely more comfortable to be on a host that doesn't have terms that are this strict.
00deadbeef 10y ago
Aren't they slow Atom C2750 cores though?
- duncanawoods 10y ago
  I believe the cheaper ones are the even slower C2550s. Another worry is the flaw thats been affecting the whole C range: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/06/cisco_intel_decline_to_link_product_warning_to_faulty_chip/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/06/cisco_intel_decline...
- karussell 10y ago
  They have also X86 alternatives since 2016 (and a third offering since a few weeks)
  - 00deadbeef 10y ago
    Atom is x86. I wasn't referring to their ARM servers.

Karunamon 10y ago

I probably wouldn't host a blog there. Their ToS[1] has, among other things: - A prohibition against 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 - Users are required to use decent and respectful language - Users are reminded that they must update software without excessive delay when a security failing is noted by the user or the software publisher or Scaleway This reads like: If you might offend anyone by the standards of the French, or might use strong language, or don't run the latest version of everything, this isn't the service for you. On the positive side, they lack the litany of restricted services that most hosting companies I've seen provide, and I don't see any prohibitions against using your paid for resources to their maximum, so that's good. US customers should note that all of their prices are in Euro, so -- for exchange rate shenanigans and currency exchange fees on most credit cards. There's no selector to show prices in USD. [1]: https://www.scaleway.com/terms/ https://www.scaleway.com/terms/

mthoms 10y ago
On the other hand, being hosted in the EU means the data is (at least in theory) out of reach for US government agencies.
ve55 10y ago
I was concerned about this as well. I use Scaleway but I don't host any websites with notable content there. I haven't heard much about these terms being held against users, so I'm not sure how much action there would really be behind this type of stuff. With that said, it is definitely more comfortable to be on a host that doesn't have terms that are this strict.

00deadbeef 10y ago

Aren't they slow Atom C2750 cores though?

duncanawoods 10y ago
I believe the cheaper ones are the even slower C2550s. Another worry is the flaw thats been affecting the whole C range: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/06/cisco_intel_decline_to_link_product_warning_to_faulty_chip/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/06/cisco_intel_decline...
karussell 10y ago
They have also X86 alternatives since 2016 (and a third offering since a few weeks)
- 00deadbeef 10y ago
  Atom is x86. I wasn't referring to their ARM servers.