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I ran an alpine/arm tor node on scaleway for a while, but I had often problems with filesystem corruption and general stability. I don’t know if it was alpine o

by fs111 6y ago

I ran an alpine/arm tor node on scaleway for a while, but I had often problems with filesystem corruption and general stability. I don’t know if it was alpine or the arm server or both, but it was not a super stable setup. Their x64 boxes are more stable.

WildGreenLeave 6y ago
I've been running a TOR node on their ARM server for over a year and it has been stable from the beginning. On average I'm pushing 22.89TiB a month[0] [0] https://i.imgur.com/rXWYvYa.png https://i.imgur.com/rXWYvYa.png
- djmobley 6y ago
  That’s an awful lot of data transfer for a low cost instance. I think most providers would find a way to pull the plug on that kind of usage.
  - WildGreenLeave 6y ago
    I agree! If at any point they would've asked me to lower my usage I would've gladly done so. But they never did that so kudos to them. :) Especially considering it costs me 3EU a month.
  - daneel_w 6y ago
    It's one of their many strong selling points - unmetered traffic, even on their lowest-tier offers.
  - snuxoll 6y ago
    Online/Scaleway is a subsidiary of Iliad, a French telecom operator. Rumor has it (and it's not far-fetched) that they actively encourage heavy upload usage from Scaleway customers to help balance out their peering and/or transit connections to negotiate better deals.
  - RL_Quine 6y ago
    Why? It doesn't impact them meaningfully. The instances only have a 200Mbit interface so it's not like you can saturate their pipes.
  - fs111 6y ago
    I run one on hetzner cloud that does similar traffic and it is no problem at all for them. I basically max out the bandwidth at any given moment and they never complained.
daneel_w 6y ago
Hard to say. I have made heavy use of their C1/Arch (dedicated Arm 32-bit) for 4 years now, and medium use of their Arm64/Debian virtualized instances on and off the past 2 years, and have experienced no problems of any kind.
- usr1106 6y ago
  I agree. I was also a happy customer of C1 until they stopped to maintain the kernel. The HW has still been running well, but with no way to install your own kernel either it has become unbearable. Sad to leave them behind.
sgzfx 6y ago
This is definitely not an ARM-only problem, I also had the same issues for years with both ARM64 and C2. I deleted my Scaleway account last year after migrating all of my resources over to DO and other providers. I was sick of having to deal with randomly losing access to my servers in intervals of less than half a year. Now that they're nuking C2 and ARM64 because of stability issues, from a pure price for performance perspective it would make sense for me to return to using their services.. but after my experience battling those issues with their support, it's unlikely.
- pedrocx486 6y ago
  >over to DO I tried moving my services to them, during sign up they asked for a scan of my ID and before I could even send it, I got banned "irreversibly" and without a explicitly said reason. I ended up using Linode instead. To this day, I still wonder that the hell triggered their systems so bad to ban me before even finishing signing up.
- fs111 6y ago
  I can highly recommend hetzner cloud. I run all my new stuff there. Great hardware, good connectivity, good prices, and okay UI to do things in: https://www.hetzner.de/cloud https://www.hetzner.de/cloud

by fs111 6y ago

WildGreenLeave 6y ago

I've been running a TOR node on their ARM server for over a year and it has been stable from the beginning. On average I'm pushing 22.89TiB a month[0] [0] https://i.imgur.com/rXWYvYa.png https://i.imgur.com/rXWYvYa.png

djmobley 6y ago
That’s an awful lot of data transfer for a low cost instance. I think most providers would find a way to pull the plug on that kind of usage.
- WildGreenLeave 6y ago
  I agree! If at any point they would've asked me to lower my usage I would've gladly done so. But they never did that so kudos to them. :) Especially considering it costs me 3EU a month.
- daneel_w 6y ago
  It's one of their many strong selling points - unmetered traffic, even on their lowest-tier offers.
- snuxoll 6y ago
  Online/Scaleway is a subsidiary of Iliad, a French telecom operator. Rumor has it (and it's not far-fetched) that they actively encourage heavy upload usage from Scaleway customers to help balance out their peering and/or transit connections to negotiate better deals.
- RL_Quine 6y ago
  Why? It doesn't impact them meaningfully. The instances only have a 200Mbit interface so it's not like you can saturate their pipes.
- fs111 6y ago
  I run one on hetzner cloud that does similar traffic and it is no problem at all for them. I basically max out the bandwidth at any given moment and they never complained.

daneel_w 6y ago

Hard to say. I have made heavy use of their C1/Arch (dedicated Arm 32-bit) for 4 years now, and medium use of their Arm64/Debian virtualized instances on and off the past 2 years, and have experienced no problems of any kind.

usr1106 6y ago
I agree. I was also a happy customer of C1 until they stopped to maintain the kernel. The HW has still been running well, but with no way to install your own kernel either it has become unbearable. Sad to leave them behind.

sgzfx 6y ago

This is definitely not an ARM-only problem, I also had the same issues for years with both ARM64 and C2. I deleted my Scaleway account last year after migrating all of my resources over to DO and other providers. I was sick of having to deal with randomly losing access to my servers in intervals of less than half a year. Now that they're nuking C2 and ARM64 because of stability issues, from a pure price for performance perspective it would make sense for me to return to using their services.. but after my experience battling those issues with their support, it's unlikely.

pedrocx486 6y ago
>over to DO I tried moving my services to them, during sign up they asked for a scan of my ID and before I could even send it, I got banned "irreversibly" and without a explicitly said reason. I ended up using Linode instead. To this day, I still wonder that the hell triggered their systems so bad to ban me before even finishing signing up.
fs111 6y ago
I can highly recommend hetzner cloud. I run all my new stuff there. Great hardware, good connectivity, good prices, and okay UI to do things in: https://www.hetzner.de/cloud https://www.hetzner.de/cloud