I've written extensively about Scaleway on Twitter, and not good stuff.<p>- Their network ranges are very likely to be blacklisted by essentially everything that employs blacklisting.<p>- The disks/volumes should be treated as ephemeral. There is no redundancy.<p>- Their SLA is a joke. I had a mailserver crash in the night and not booting, sent a ticket in the morning, resolved next evening. "SLA does not apply because problem was not a power
failure". There is no SLA anywhere in their T&C, it's just mentioned on their marketing site without any detail.<p>- Turning off systems takes 30+ minutes. They mirror the entire disk to their storage system (very slowly) and free the entire machine (and you're still billed for it). This even applies if you resize the machine or add a volume. Turning on systems is a bit faster, but still in the 20+ minutes area. Oh, and you have a chance of not being able to boot again because although yes, you are billed, they're not reserving a machine for you.<p>- Can't pick own kernel on some machines. Arbitrary restrictions on number of volumes / addon services that aren't documented anywhere. They tell you when you try to hit save.<p>- Their network stack is crap. No machine gets an assignable public IP. If you attach an IP you still have the private IP on the NIC, but some firewall NATs traffic to you. It's also just slow in general.
Nice. The only thing keeping me away from Scaleway are several bad reviews about Online.net network. Anyone got any experience on this?<p>Their arm offerings are nice but unfortunately they are always out of stock. When I contacted support to ask if they have plans to mitigate this, their full response was "sometimes we are victims of our own success" (nice, good for them, but some real information would be useful).<p>Another major problem for anyone considering Scaleway is several reports of not being able to launch an instance from control panel, or completely bricking a working instance by simply restarting it.
I have a Scaleway VM and the networking has lots of trouble. Would not recommend.<p>It's difficult to host a Tor hidden service on Scaleway because half the time the clients just can't connect. I have not figured out why this is.<p>I also find that my SSH session sometimes just randomly drops. It's nothing to do with keepalive. Sometimes I can leave it for a few hours and come back to it, sometimes if I look away for 10 seconds, the SSH session will be gone when I come back.<p>EDIT: Here's a chart showing my findings for Tor hidden services: <a href="https://img.jes.xxx/1940" rel="nofollow">https://img.jes.xxx/1940</a> the cht1 machine is the one on scaleway. The red charts show the proportion of requests which failed, you can see for cht1 this is normally more than half.
I tried Scaleway a year ago, and it was almost impossible to just set up the firewall due to some low level kernel bug.<p>Who would use hosting where firewall is insanely hard to set up?<p>A friend of mine went another route, he built the infra first and wanted to secure it after. He hit the same problem. Firewall was impossible to set up.<p>Not to mention before I figured this out I had to recreate 5+ instances because it was locking me out. I will not use Scaleway in the future.
What is the difference between BareMetal C2M which offers 8 cores, 16GB memory, and 50GB of SSD storage for €17.99 vs GP1-XS which offers 4 AMD EPYC, 16GB memory, and 150GB of storage for €39.99? Isn't the BareMetal better because it is dedicated, yet it is less expensive?