Scaleway Now Provides Crazy Cheap VPS-Like Servers For $3.40 Per Month
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Online.net’s Scaleway is an interesting beast in the cloud hosting world. Instead of building a virtual cloud hosting infrastructure that competes directly with Amazon Web Services, DigitalOcean and other VPS providers, the company designed its own ARM-based servers.
And that’s why the company can drive the prices down so much. You can now get a BareMetal SSD server with 2GB of RAM and 50GB of storage for $3.40 per month (€2.99) — that’s 70 percent cheaper than Scaleway’s previous pricing of €9.99 per month.
The company has stated on Twitter that the new pricing applies to existing users as well. As a reminder, as ARM v7 chipsets were first designed for smartphones, it’s very easy to run many of them with very little power, cooling and space. Scaleway managed to squeeze 912 separate computers in a single server rack.
The company also kept the best of both worlds — dedicated servers with the flexibility of virtualization as you get 4 dedicated ARM cores, a dedicated IP and 200Mbit/s of unmetered bandwidth. Contrarily to many popular VPS providers, you won’t share your CPU raw power with other users.
Other than that, it works pretty much like everybody else. In a few clicks, you can start an instance and install a distribution or an application. Some of these apps were already available for ARM architectures, but some of them had to be ported by Scaleway’s team to run on these servers. You can already find all the major distributions, from Debian to Ubuntu and Fedora.
In a few clicks, you can add more storage or integrate with Amazon S3. The company only has one server model. If you need more RAM or CPU power, you should boot up a new server with an existing image and make it work with your other servers. All the servers are currently hosted in Iliad’s data center in France.
At first, Scaleway was a technical achievement. Then it became a promising alternative when it comes to cloud hosting. Now with this new aggressive pricing strategy, it could become a serious contender.
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Which Linux distributions are available?
You can currently boot your servers with the following distributions:
- Ubuntu LTS 14.04 (Trusty Tahr)
- Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn)
- Debian (7.8)
- Fedora 20
- Archlinux (rolling)
Other distributions are on their way. Also, Any Linux distribution with support of the armhf architecture should work out of the box.
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Why can I post a image? @scottalanmiller @Minion-Queen
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Huh I will have @scottalanmiller take a look at why that's not working.....
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Working on getting my first server up now.
They force you to use a SSH Key. Interesting.....
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No port of centos?
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@MattSpeller Doesn't seem to be
That was my first issue. Ubuntu seems like the next logical choice. -
I googled around, but I can't seem to see if CentOS7 supports ARM. I am guessing not, or they would have it
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@Minion-Queen said:
Huh I will have @scottalanmiller take a look at why that's not working.....
There is a problem with the imgur plugin. It has been discussed in a few threads.
Greenshot on my desktop still autouploads to imgur just fine. So I doubt it was an imgur change, but instead a bug here with the 0.8.0 update.
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@anonymous said:
Why can I post a image? @scottalanmiller @Minion-Queen
Known issue with the Imgur plugin that is listed in the 0.8.0 thread. Waiting for them to fix it. Just link an image rather than uploading and everything works.
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@anonymous said:
I googled around, but I can't seem to see if CentOS7 supports ARM. I am guessing not, or they would have it
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Anyone going to try this?
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WordPress works much better on Scaleway then DO, do to the fact that you have 2GB of RAM.
Sadly I can't seem to get Screenconnect working
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@anonymous said:
Sadly I can't seem to get Screenconnect working
What OS are you trying?
I suspect that this is because SC does not support ARM architecture, almost no one does. You are pretty limited in offerings to install when you leave the AMD64 world.
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@anonymous said:
WordPress works much better on Scaleway then DO, do to the fact that you have 2GB of RAM.
Are you sure it is from the memory and not from the completely different processing situation. Different architecture, configuration, etc.
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@anonymous said:
Anyone going to try this?
I know someone who tried it last week and wasn't impressed.
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Since the architecture is ARM rather than AMD64, what we are likely to find is that for some things it performs well and for others it does not and that it is far less predictable than we are used to as the command paths are completely different and things aren't just faster or slower but completely different.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Since the architecture is ARM rather than AMD64, what we are likely to find is that for some things it performs well and for others it does not and that it is far less predictable than we are used to as the command paths are completely different and things aren't just faster or slower but completely different.
So you would not use it?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@anonymous said:
WordPress works much better on Scaleway then DO, do to the fact that you have 2GB of RAM.
Are you sure it is from the memory and not from the completely different processing situation. Different architecture, configuration, etc.
From what I have seen, what causes problems with WordPress isn't WordPress at all. It's the MySQL running out of memory. With 2GB, I am not running out anymore
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@scottalanmiller said:
@anonymous said:
Sadly I can't seem to get Screenconnect working
What OS are you trying?
I suspect that this is because SC does not support ARM architecture, almost no one does. You are pretty limited in offerings to install when you leave the AMD64 world.
SC does support ARMv7, however they don't support hard floating points, whatever that means....
http://forum.screenconnect.com/yaf_postst8052_Trying-to-Install-on-Scaleway--ARMv7.aspx#post29020
