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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

• 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.