...providing that they can actually and predictably supply the servers.<p>My experience with Scaleway was essentially this: they advertise that you can have virtual servers with up to 10 150GB SSD volumes, so I signed up and created a virtual server with two 150GB volumes. After several attempts over three days, the server wouldn't start at all; it never actually started.<p>Scaleway's support told me that "it's because there are no available nodes matching your configuration." and "If our stock is low then there is more chance that the only free nodes are "default" ones, with 200GB available only". The solution, according to their support, would be to "keep trying to start the server until it works".<p>So, they'll sell you a vServer but can't guarantee when you'll be able to spin up the machine.<p>For me, it was a terrible experience, and Scaleway's "customer support" forums will give you a good grasp of what you're in for if you buy their service.
I checked them out after using GCP, AWS and its unbelievable how much slower their servers are. I some times wonder how anyone other than AWS/GCP/Azure even survive in this competitive market.
Is one still required to submit all their personal information (ID card details, proof of address, etc.) before the servers can be useful? Previously you had to do it, or SMTP ports (etc.) would be blocked until you did.<p>If that's still the case, is it at least made known that the servers are crippled, prior to starting your account creation process (previously it wasn't, which I found shady)?<p>My experience so far is that the servers are okay, but the website's UI could be clunky-ish, support to be unresponsive and the aforementioned shady business with requesting personal-information to enable services.
What's the catch with the unlimited traffic? Can I use their servers to deliver large content files to a large group of users, with only the advertised bandwidth as the limitation? Or do they decrease bandwidth after a certain amount of traffic?
Last I looked at Scaleway what put me off was the fact that their storage was not backed by RAID [1].<p>Compared to other, comparably priced providers like Hetzner and OVH that do use RAID this is a big caveat IMHO. Of course important data should be backed up remotely but disks fail and I'm not willing to deal with the hassle of restoring data simply because a single disk failed.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.scaleway.com/faq/servers/volumes/#-Local-Volumes" rel="nofollow">https://www.scaleway.com/faq/servers/volumes/#-Local-Volumes</a>
From my experience Scaleway is awfully slow and you can't really scale your project as you like as there is often no stock. There is also that weird IP thing where you need to bind to private IP instead of the public. This causes a lot of problems - for example using custom dns for Kubernetes doesn't really work with that setup.
Only thing good about it is the network.
Another thing - if your instance has a fault and there is no stock you'll have downtime, sometimes even a day or so until there is something in stock.
They are known for overselling a bit. They admit it in this very blog post. Nice technical, leading edge concepts, good prices. But then they might struggle with fulfilling the promises.<p>They had big announcements for IPv6. After a long wait they had to admit that their C1 infra has HW limitations and IPv6 would never come. On their other infra they do have IPv6, but I understand the implementation is awkward (not an IPv6 expert myself).<p>They had big plans for ARM. Nowadays they do mostly Intel.<p>Yes, I like them for pioneering, but I would not like to have my business heavily relying on their promises.