Hello and welcome to the underground data center I work for :) <a href="http://tour.deac.eu/Grizinkalns.html" rel="nofollow">http://tour.deac.eu/Grizinkalns.html</a><p>Located in Riga, Latvia, that is now underneath a city park. It was once a nuclear shelter in times of CCCP / USSR. Visitors of park were once interviewed do they know where do those doors in the park lead and what is currently there... people didn't know :)
Fun fact: Xavier Niel, founder of Scaleway, is a cataphile and used to hang out in Paris' catacombs quite a bit back in the day. Apparently he even enjoys a private access to the catacombs from the basement of the building he lives in.
Interesting -- this reminds me of the the Greenbrier Bunker[0] which was a secret fallout shelter intended to house Congress in the event of a nuclear strike on DC. It was also decommissioned in the early 90s and ~20yrs later repurposed as a secure offsite data storage facility. It's worth the $40 tour if you're ever in the area.<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Greek_Island" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Greek_Island</a>
"we mixed the resin with silica to prepare the surface for the next step, which was the laying of the tiles for the métro. For this operation, over 3,000 square meters of tiles were required!"<p>Do they provide any benefit other than look? At first glance, it seems like a big expense to garnish the walls of a data center. So I'm curious if the ceramic tiles provide any other benefit, or is it all just eye candy for tours of potential investors/customers?
Does anyone have (development/production) experience using Scaleway? Are they roughly comparable to Digital Ocean..? How's price/reliability/support?<p>Thanks!