Frank O'Dwyer3d ago
Simon B. Støvring

The past couple of months, I’ve been building infrastructure on Scaleway. As someone who has dabbled in AWS, I’m pleasantly surprised at how straightforward Scaleway is while still offering a large catalog of services that play well together.

It’s not on par with AWS in the number of offerings, but AWS is so overwhelming that I tend to consider that a good thing.

If you’re looking for an EU-based alternative to something like AWS, then Scaleway might be it. I think it is for me.

Mar 23 at 11:25pmIvory for iOS
Show threadHelge Heß3d ago
@simonbs I'm running my website and stuff (like irc.noze.io) on a tiny VM on #Scaleway for some 10+ years. Worked well for me (they originally attracted me w/ cheap $3/m 4-core ARM based dedicated servers). I use their "S3" for SwiftPM Catalog.
But recently they killed my tiny-VM tier ($5/m) and apparently the only "automatic" transition was to a $35/m instance. I wasn't amused. Probably going to switch away over that. To Hetzner I suppose.
Show threadNicolai Henriksen12h ago

@helge Am I reading this wrong or is their smalles instance €0.10 per month? That seems insanely cheap.

https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/virtual-instances/

Virtual Instances Pricing | Scaleway

Experience the seamless integration of various virtual instances within Scaleway’s comprehensive cloud ecosystem, meticulously crafted to deliver unparalleled price-to-performance value. With provisioning in mere seconds, our Virtual Instances lineup is tailored to accommodate your every workload requirement effortlessly.

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Show threadHelge Heß12h ago
@gahms Looks like. The problem for me was more like they forced me into an expensive offering, not that they don’t have affordable offerings anymore.
Show threadNicolai Henriksen12h ago
@helge Ah, IPv4 costs and a disk costs. No way to get below €1 per month and with IPv4 it is €3.89 per month.
Show threadHelge Heß12h ago
@gahms which is still good, but that wasn’t offered to me, so i guess im going to switch
Show threadHelge Heß12h ago
@gahms just to be clear, whether its 5 or 35 is not really meaningful to the services i run on that. what is meaningful is that they bring/force you into the latter. Dark patterns and I don’t want to work with companies doing such 🤷‍♀️
Sole reason #scaleway is a non option/recommendation for me anymore.
Show threadGeorg Tuparev7h ago

@helge @simonbs

We host our Macs at Hetzner and web/ file servers at Linode. Both are in Germany.

Show threadbert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦3d ago
@simonbs thanks! How is the quality going? Used to be somewhat worrying.
Show threadSimon B. Støvring3d ago
@bert_hubert I have no complaints.
Show threadSimon3d ago
@bert_hubert @simonbs My client had 2 full workday lasting downtimes in the last 12 months (container hosting) because of maintenance in other AZs which degraded external name resolution which we require for one service. All other containers worked flawlessly through the service windows. Not too happy with how no resolution was attempted bc the maintenance in Paris was ongoing while the containers in Amsterdam were up but couldn’t work.