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I really like Scaleway: https://www.scaleway.com/en/ https://www.scaleway.com/en/. Similar offer and simplicity as DigitalOcean, but way lower prices. I had to
by raphaelj 4y ago
I really like Scaleway: https://www.scaleway.com/en/ https://www.scaleway.com/en/.
Similar offer and simplicity as DigitalOcean, but way lower prices. I had to reach support a few months ago, and they were pretty responsive.
They also show the prices per month, not per hour/milisecond/byte/whatever. As I'm also the one paying the invoices, I really like that.
- nomercy400 4y agoAlso, Scaleway is European, with datacenters in France, Amsterdam and Warsaw.
- bachmeier 4y agoFYI for anyone in the US, this means they're going to ask you for some sensitive information like a copy of your passport. Even worse, they're probably going to wait until after you've given them all your registration details, including your credit card information, to ask for it.
- nrabulinski 4y agoI’ve been a Scaleway user for years and they don’t have anything except for my CC info, where did you get the idea of sending a copy of your passport from? FWIW I’ve never had to send my ID or passport to any European service provider.
- krono 4y agoScaleway asked me for a copy of my Dutch passport too which I refused, and then they limited the services available to the long-time active business account this was for. Neither their docs or two separate support agents I spoke had any information on why it was necessary, where the copy would end up, how long it would be kept, etc. which seemed very fishy and is totally illegal. This was about a year ago.
- marcus_holmes 4y agoYou sure this wasn't a spear-phishing attack instead of a legit request?
- krono 4y agoYeah the verification process initiation including document upload all went through the account control panel. The account audit log also contains records related to the incomplete verification process, and there's a permanent banner telling me to complete the thing too. Appreciate you asking though
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y agoMaybe this is needed to figure out how much VAT to charge you?
- krono 4y agoSince both are EU businesses, these were "Intra-Community Acquisitions"[1] so the VAT was reverse-charged. Either way, they knew the business' VAT ID, Chamber of Commerce ID, etc. and had been billing us successfully using that info for a good while, there were no outstanding bills, and there was nothing nefarious or questionable going on our servers or with the associated traffic (just running legacy applications and services). All in all a super weird experience, which was a shame since we were otherwise and up until then quite happy with them. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_value_added_tax#Intra-Community_acquisition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_value_added_tax...
- CryptoBanker 4y agoI’ve never had a European hosting provider ask me for my passport. Not sure where you’re getting that information from
- bachmeier 4y ago> Not sure where you’re getting that information from From personal experience. There have been other conversations on HN in the past about this. Mine was not an isolated incident.
- Saris 4y agoI can't figure out the prices per month thing, if I select GP Compute and 'Monthly' it just says "Sorry, no results…" Their pricing page is really confusing to navigate and figure out what's what.
- badcppdev 4y agoI agree with it being very confusing. If you select Monthly it seems to just remove the products with pricing per ms or per hour.
- fomine3 4y agofyi https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27982769 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27982769