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I just run a server on scaleway for 3€ a month and do everything there. That gives me total control over my things.

by fs111 9y ago

yakshaving_jgt 9y ago
Scaleway are horridly unreliable. I run a SaaS business, and hosted first with DigitalOcean which amounted to roughly one outage per month. I then tried hosting with Scaleway for a few months to cut costs. On Scaleway, I averaged 53 outages every month. Average response times were slower. Longer outages meant I had to manually hard-restart the server, which corrupted all the database indexes. Scaleway also has a huge problem with machine availability. Last time I checked, everything was out of stock. I'm hosting on AWS now, and it's about as reliable as DigitalOcean. Outages are all tracked by Pingdom.
- icebraining 9y ago
  One outage per month in DO? Curious, we had a dozen machines running there and never experienced that. Unless they were very short-lived (we used Uptime Robot's free plan, which has a 5m interval). Or maybe it's the DC? We used AMS2.
  - maxyme 9y ago
    Ditto for me. SFO2 has been extremely reliable. Every few months I'd get emails about planned router updates with the possibility of high packet loss for 10-15 mins but it never occurred.
  - yakshaving_jgt 9y ago
    Many months had zero outages, so the average is less than one. Outages were short-lived too. In short: generally reliable. Scaleway not so.
- fs111 9y ago
  Hmm, I run a couple of servers there including a busy tor node and I do not have any problems.
- jamietanna 9y ago
  I've got a few VPSes on Scaleway, and I've had 1 outage over the last year and a half. May just be down to luck
onion2k 9y ago
For my side projects I don't need things to be easy. I need them to be interesting, and I want them to be challenging. Deciding to do things for zero cost is an interesting constraint. I could do everything for a few dollars but I'd rather spend my time working out how to do it for free and then buy beer.

I just run a server on scaleway for 3€ a month and do everything there. That gives me total control over my things.

by fs111 9y ago

I just run a server on scaleway for 3€ a month and do everything there. That gives me total control over my things.

Scaleway are horridly unreliable. I run a SaaS business, and hosted first with DigitalOcean which amounted to roughly one outage per month. I then tried hosting with Scaleway for a few months to cut costs. On Scaleway, I averaged 53 outages every month. Average response times were slower. Longer outages meant I had to manually hard-restart the server, which corrupted all the database indexes. Scaleway also has a huge problem with machine availability. Last time I checked, everything was out of stock. I'm hosting on AWS now, and it's about as reliable as DigitalOcean. Outages are all tracked by Pingdom.

icebraining 9y ago
One outage per month in DO? Curious, we had a dozen machines running there and never experienced that. Unless they were very short-lived (we used Uptime Robot's free plan, which has a 5m interval). Or maybe it's the DC? We used AMS2.
- maxyme 9y ago
  Ditto for me. SFO2 has been extremely reliable. Every few months I'd get emails about planned router updates with the possibility of high packet loss for 10-15 mins but it never occurred.
- yakshaving_jgt 9y ago
  Many months had zero outages, so the average is less than one. Outages were short-lived too. In short: generally reliable. Scaleway not so.
fs111 9y ago
Hmm, I run a couple of servers there including a busy tor node and I do not have any problems.
jamietanna 9y ago
I've got a few VPSes on Scaleway, and I've had 1 outage over the last year and a half. May just be down to luck

onion2k 9y ago

For my side projects I don't need things to be easy. I need them to be interesting, and I want them to be challenging. Deciding to do things for zero cost is an interesting constraint. I could do everything for a few dollars but I'd rather spend my time working out how to do it for free and then buy beer.