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scaleway customer since 09/2017. It is true that CPU is slow: apt-get update/upgrade is about 10 times slower than on my desktop. SSD disk is not very fast. The
by reacweb 9y ago
scaleway customer since 09/2017. It is true that CPU is slow: apt-get update/upgrade is about 10 times slower than on my desktop. SSD disk is not very fast. There are network slowdown sometimes, but it is generally a lot faster than my home access. I use it for hosting of a couple of personal sites. My apache site is faster than a cheap entry level shared hosting. My node.js site is blazingly fast (most data is cached in memory and disk access are mostly async).
I use it also as a proxy to work around enterprise internet filter (bluecoat filter blocks archive.org).
With a bluetooth keyboard, a ssh client and tmux, my phone can be used to maintain my servers from anywhere.
It is really dirt cheap compared to the service it gives.
- pjc50 9y ago> scaleway customer since 09/2017 Traveller from the future!
- reacweb 9y agotypo: 09/2015
- mtgx 9y agoWorth pointing out that these are new ARM processors, potentially 3x faster than the (very) old ARM processors it was using before. I still think they should've gone with Qualcomm's Centriq 2400 [1] platform, though, which I think will be significantly ahead in performance and perf/W than either Cavium or APM's processors. I guess they went for that sweet price/performance value, but I think in ARM's case, it's worth going with the best there is, if nothing else to not continue the "too slow" stigma that ARM gets in servers, which can only hurt any ARM-based vendor. In my view, it would be better to offer similar or better performance than Xeon D (or other Xeons, depending on number of cores) for 20% less than offer half the performance for 50-60% less. [1] https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2016/12/07/meet-qualcomm-centriq-2400-worlds-first-10-nanometer-server-processor https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2016/12/07/meet-qualcomm-c...