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Scaleway had their own self-developed ARM boards like 5 years ago with dedicated cores and RAM, although it was mostly for testing and development and was very

Scaleway had their own self-developed ARM boards like 5 years ago with dedicated cores and RAM, although it was mostly for testing and development and was very low price.

IgorPartola 4y ago
And somehow had no support for IPv6.
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julienfr112 4y ago
That was VM if I remember right, not bare metal
- worldofmatthew 4y ago
  It was a dedicated server with 4 ARM Cores.
PaulKeeble 4y ago
It also barely worked at all.
- lizardactivist 4y ago
  User error.
  - yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
    IIRC Scaleway discontinued it because they considered it too buggy, so probably not.
    - lizardactivist 4y ago
      Too few customers. People reasoned (wrongfully I think) that ARM on the server-side was a gamble because ARM-based desktops and developer setups were not a big thing.
      - bee_rider 4y ago
        They appear to have been correct, for the last 5 years at least.
      - yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
        Maybe that too, but officially the reason was reliability. > As explained in our email, Scaleway’s C2 and ARM Instances suffer from random instabilities that prevent us to keep market them - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22878771 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22878771 > As of December 1 st, 2020, our C2 and ARM64 Instances will reach their end-of-life. The physical servers hosting them are indeed randomly affected by several stability issues, which prevent us from fully guaranteeing the overall quality of service. - https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/g11uuj/scaleway_retiring_their_arm64c2_instances/ https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/g11uuj/scaleway...
        onli 4y ago
        I hosted my blog with them. Not too bad for a personal project (and the price was great), but the pingdom chart at that time had lots of holes. Those small ARM servers were quite nice and perfectly cheap, but reliable they really were not. Oh, and they were often out of stock, so they did not have not enough customers. Maybe not enough hardware supply.
    - GekkePrutser 4y ago
      It was the network based filesystem that was buggy. I had an atom server as well that used the same and they also discontinued that for the same reason. It was more of a service architectural problem than a technical one with ARM as a platform.
geokon 4y ago
They also managed to find the only ARM CPUs in existence that don't have NEON instructions... very fun to debug..

Scaleway had their own self-developed ARM boards like 5 years ago with dedicated cores and RAM, although it was mostly for testing and development and was very low price.

IgorPartola 4y ago

And somehow had no support for IPv6.

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julienfr112 4y ago

That was VM if I remember right, not bare metal

worldofmatthew 4y ago
It was a dedicated server with 4 ARM Cores.

PaulKeeble 4y ago

It also barely worked at all.

lizardactivist 4y ago
User error.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
  IIRC Scaleway discontinued it because they considered it too buggy, so probably not.
  - lizardactivist 4y ago
    Too few customers. People reasoned (wrongfully I think) that ARM on the server-side was a gamble because ARM-based desktops and developer setups were not a big thing.
    - bee_rider 4y ago
      They appear to have been correct, for the last 5 years at least.
    - yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
      Maybe that too, but officially the reason was reliability. > As explained in our email, Scaleway’s C2 and ARM Instances suffer from random instabilities that prevent us to keep market them - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22878771 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22878771 > As of December 1 st, 2020, our C2 and ARM64 Instances will reach their end-of-life. The physical servers hosting them are indeed randomly affected by several stability issues, which prevent us from fully guaranteeing the overall quality of service. - https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/g11uuj/scaleway_retiring_their_arm64c2_instances/ https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/g11uuj/scaleway...
      - onli 4y ago
        I hosted my blog with them. Not too bad for a personal project (and the price was great), but the pingdom chart at that time had lots of holes. Those small ARM servers were quite nice and perfectly cheap, but reliable they really were not. Oh, and they were often out of stock, so they did not have not enough customers. Maybe not enough hardware supply.
  - GekkePrutser 4y ago
    It was the network based filesystem that was buggy. I had an atom server as well that used the same and they also discontinued that for the same reason. It was more of a service architectural problem than a technical one with ARM as a platform.

geokon 4y ago

They also managed to find the only ARM CPUs in existence that don't have NEON instructions... very fun to debug..