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I also found that in addition to that even when the server was available I had a bunch of problems even getting it to start. Their customised images just seemed

I also found that in addition to that even when the server was available I had a bunch of problems even getting it to start. Their customised images just seemed to not work that day. Once I finally got the image started I then attempted a basic update && dist-upgrade and find myself looking at a bunch of errors, they had reconfigured the entirity of their image to point at their own caches, but thoses caches weren't there. I finally contacted support and their answer was that this was my fault for choosing an old Ubunutu instance (I hadn't it was new ish). I went to the forums and all I found was people with major stability issues, problems with availability and broken images. They are cheap but awful both in basic delivery and in customer support. It is not worth wasting your time with. It cost me 5 cent just to mess around and not get anywhere and that was mostly a ridiculous bill after they wasted my time so incredibly and I never got a working box. This is not a company worth dealing with.

reacweb 9y ago
hello, my personal website is running on a scaleway C1 (dirt cheap baremetal arm) since 3 oct 2015. There were some network issues the first months. No problem since. My main administrative task is: apt-get update/upgrade every week and backup of my site every couple of month.
- aexaey 9y ago
  > apt-get update/upgrade every week Have a look at: https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades
- pnutjam 9y ago
  Looks like that's a physical, not a virtual.
- usr1106 9y ago
  I use the same. I don't have any uptime requirements because it's only for freetime and experimental use. But I don't think there has been any outage (knocking on wood) If you use their Ubuntu image it should have unattended upgrades enabled already. Still, you need to watch it. Ubuntu is not very good at restarting daemons after a library has been upgraded. dhclient is regularly affected. And libc is blocked from automatic updates IIRC. The kernel anyway, because this is a diskless setup. I like the product (baremetal ARM). But I fear it's dead. They used to upgrade the kernel frequently, but now it appears that no one is working on it anymore. Of course don't try to run anything that requires performance or availability on a 4 EUR / month server.

reacweb 9y ago

hello, my personal website is running on a scaleway C1 (dirt cheap baremetal arm) since 3 oct 2015. There were some network issues the first months. No problem since. My main administrative task is: apt-get update/upgrade every week and backup of my site every couple of month.

aexaey 9y ago
> apt-get update/upgrade every week Have a look at: https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades
pnutjam 9y ago
Looks like that's a physical, not a virtual.
usr1106 9y ago
I use the same. I don't have any uptime requirements because it's only for freetime and experimental use. But I don't think there has been any outage (knocking on wood) If you use their Ubuntu image it should have unattended upgrades enabled already. Still, you need to watch it. Ubuntu is not very good at restarting daemons after a library has been upgraded. dhclient is regularly affected. And libc is blocked from automatic updates IIRC. The kernel anyway, because this is a diskless setup. I like the product (baremetal ARM). But I fear it's dead. They used to upgrade the kernel frequently, but now it appears that no one is working on it anymore. Of course don't try to run anything that requires performance or availability on a 4 EUR / month server.