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I host some (personal/hobby) stuff on Scaleway. It's dirt cheap (a couple bucks a month for a Tor node pushing ~100 Mbps) and I like them, but they often have s
by tgsovlerkhgsel 8y ago
I host some (personal/hobby) stuff on Scaleway. It's dirt cheap (a couple bucks a month for a Tor node pushing ~100 Mbps) and I like them, but they often have stockouts (can't start any new servers because they're out of servers, IPs, or some other resource) or other reliability issues (e.g. a server taking forever to start/stop). I can highly recommend them for hobby stuff, but wouldn't dare to use them for something that will cost me my livelihood if it goes down for a week.
I've heard various horror stories about OVH in terms of internal network reliability, but that was 5+ years ago.
Other reasons:
* The managed services (starting with the various file storage solutions, but extending to databases etc.)
* The list prices you see on the web site may not be the prices bigger companies actually pay.
* It's easier to find people who know how to use them, or tools that work with them.
* Possibly better service (if you have the appropriate plan - running your prod on a cloud provider without a service plan is a good idea until shit hits the fan, and a bad and possibly company-ending idea once that happens).