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Yeah, 2 GB RAM for ~$3 is amazing, while the mentioned Vultr plan is 512MB for $2.5 and DigitalOcean offers 512MB for $5… Sure, these companies have other advan

Yeah, 2 GB RAM for ~$3 is amazing, while the mentioned Vultr plan is 512MB for $2.5 and DigitalOcean offers 512MB for $5… Sure, these companies have other advantages (e.g. DigitalOcean has very fast storage) but RAM is so damn valuable if you want to run many services, run software builds, etc. Unfortunately Scaleway is Linux-only, they use some networked block storage that's not yet supported on FreeBSD apparently. (Needs to be mounted from inside the VM I assume? Damn "cloud" stuff.) Scaleway also used to have no IPv6, I think this might have been resolved though (but one address only IIRC? no /64?) prgmr is my current choice for personal stuff — 1.25 GB is not as good as 2 GB, but they offer normal Xen VMs with full access — install anything you want. Also the good feeling of supporting a small team of sysadmins instead of a big corporation (esp. vs Amazon/Google, not so much with the other small hosters). The only downside is that they only have US servers, nothing in Europe.

derefr 10y ago
> Needs to be mounted from inside the VM I assume? Damn "cloud" stuff. Yeah, that's kind of strange—what kind of SAN product doesn't even expose an iSCSI target for hypervisors to talk to?
- nopcode 10y ago
  Scaleway's lower offerings are not virtual machines. They are small dedicated arm boxes.
  - floatboth 10y ago
    That's only one of their offerings. Sure, it's the most famous one, but they've seriously expanded into the amd64 VM market.
tgsovlerkhgsel 10y ago
> they use some networked block storage that's not yet supported on FreeBSD apparently This may only apply to their physical offerings, not to the VM-based ones, and you may be able to get it to run using some nasty hacks (possibly involving loading your kernel after booting theirs). Either way, there are no official FreeBSD images so you'd be on your own. Their IPv6 support is indeed lacking (one address, and you lose it if you stop the server).
- floatboth 10y ago
  No, they told me this about the VM offerings: https://github.com/scaleway/image-proposals/issues/11 https://github.com/scaleway/image-proposals/issues/11 "FreeBSD on x86_64 (C2S, C2M, C2L, VC1S, VC1M, VC1L) needs an alternative way to store data or an NBD driver for FreeBSD, and more work on the boot system"

derefr 10y ago

> Needs to be mounted from inside the VM I assume? Damn "cloud" stuff. Yeah, that's kind of strange—what kind of SAN product doesn't even expose an iSCSI target for hypervisors to talk to?

nopcode 10y ago
Scaleway's lower offerings are not virtual machines. They are small dedicated arm boxes.
- floatboth 10y ago
  That's only one of their offerings. Sure, it's the most famous one, but they've seriously expanded into the amd64 VM market.

tgsovlerkhgsel 10y ago

> they use some networked block storage that's not yet supported on FreeBSD apparently This may only apply to their physical offerings, not to the VM-based ones, and you may be able to get it to run using some nasty hacks (possibly involving loading your kernel after booting theirs). Either way, there are no official FreeBSD images so you'd be on your own. Their IPv6 support is indeed lacking (one address, and you lose it if you stop the server).

floatboth 10y ago
No, they told me this about the VM offerings: https://github.com/scaleway/image-proposals/issues/11 https://github.com/scaleway/image-proposals/issues/11 "FreeBSD on x86_64 (C2S, C2M, C2L, VC1S, VC1M, VC1L) needs an alternative way to store data or an NBD driver for FreeBSD, and more work on the boot system"