Scaleway Cloud Launches x86-64 C2 Servers: Dedicated Avoton C2550 and C2750

[fm7]

Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2016 16:57:53 +0000
From: Scaleway <[email protected]>


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[willie]

By the way, the new Scaleway VPS don't look especially more attractive than the corresponding OVH other than the availability of hourly billing without a deposit.  An Avoton core is around 20% the speed of an E3 core so maybe 25-30% of the speed of OVH's E5 cores.  Given that you're on a shared machine either way, you can't use 100% cpu all the time on either one, you get about equivalent total CPU and much better single threaded performance comparing the OVH and Scaleway 4GB plans (4 Avoton cores vs one E5 core, some of the time).  The OVH 2GB and 8GB plans seem to be better cpu-wise than Scaleway, plus they're available in Canada as well as in France. 


The Scaleway VPS's do seem nice for testing purposes and stuff like that--spin up, use for a while, and spin down when done.  But I still find the dedicateds to be a more interesting proposition.


Meanwhile, WSI has expanded the offerings of those E5 boxes (they have a 32GB, 2x240GB SSD one for $59/mo etc.) so that also seems like a useful and so-far unique resource, despite its shortcomings.

 

[fm7]

By the way, the new Scaleway VPS don't look especially more attractive than the corresponding OVH other than the availability of hourly billing without a deposit.

In France, I think Scaleway VPS is more attractive because its data center infrastructure is much better than OVH's facilities.


Also it should be noted OVH may host over 80 VPS per node.

FS#12307 — FS#16729 — VPS CLOUD 2016 - SBG host560095.sbg1

Details
We have detected an incident on host560095.sbg1, apparently a failure on the cooling system.

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Our technicians are working on the issue.

Date: Tuesday, 23 February 2016, 19:56PM
Reason for closing: Done
Additional comments about closing: All impacted VPS are up and running

 

[willie]

I don't know that the 80 vps per node is so terrible.  I'll guess it's a 16 core e5 server with 128gb of ram and 2gb vps's, and if they're like here most of the vps will be idle most of the time, so you should be able to get reasonable cpu bursts.  So it's about 1/5th of an E5 core per vps, where Scaleway is maybe equiv. to 1/2 an E5 core, but big vps nodes are usually not cpu bound.   Hard to tell.  I'd still say get a dedi if cpu really matters.


I defer to your knowledge about the ovh vs online.net networks in France.  I might try one of the ovh ones (2gb, Canada) for a month and can run some benchmarks if I do that.  I was a bit disappointed with the Scaleway C2M (dedi) on a compilation test (compiled ffmpeg).  It took about 11 minutes on 8 cores, vs about 3 minutes on an i7-3770 with 4 cores or < 19 minutes on a C1 on 4 cores.  It spent a lot of time at the end on a single yasm process, so the single threaded performance is significant.  I'd like to try it on an OVH high-cpu cloud instance sometime but I don't want to pay the $40 deposit for that.

 

[DomainBop]

By the way, the new Scaleway VPS don't look especially more attractive than the corresponding OVH other than the availability of hourly billing without a deposit.  An Avoton core is around 20% the speed of an E3 core so maybe 25-30% of the speed of OVH's E5 cores.  Given that you're on a shared machine either way, you can't use 100% cpu all the time on either one, you get about equivalent total CPU and much better single threaded performance comparing the OVH and Scaleway 4GB plans (4 Avoton cores vs one E5 core, some of the time).  The OVH 2GB and 8GB plans seem to be better cpu-wise than Scaleway, plus they're available in Canada as well as in France.

OVH is more attractive if you need CPU power but not if you need disk space.


Cost for a VPS with 50GB storage, smallest 2GB RAM offer:


Scaleway 2.99 includes 50GB


OVH public cloud VPS SSD 4.59-6.19 ( 2.99 VPS w/10GB disk + 40GB extra disk: 1.60 for 200 iops or 3.20 for 800 iops)


OVH VPS SSD 7.99 (2.99 VPS w/10GB disk + 50GB extra disk for 5.00)

I don't know that the 80 vps per node is so terrible.

The user experience usually depends more on how well the provider manages their nodes than it does on how many vps are on the node (except in the case of extreme overselling but a case could be made that overloading a node with customers is an example of poor node management).  

 

[willie]

True about the disk space, though keep in mind it's non-RAID and there's no convenient backup method currently being offered to new users.  SIS was intended for that, but it had scaling problems so it's limited to old users for now.  They claim it will be back soon, we'll see.

 

[fm7]

I don't know that the 80 vps per node is so terrible.

Resource contention.

 

[DomainBop]

Host                                Loss%   Snt   Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
 1. 163-172-25-1.rev.poneytelecom.eu  0.0%    11    0.8   0.9   0.7   1.7   0.0
 2. 195.154.1.240                     0.0%    10    1.1   1.2   0.9   2.6   0.3
 3. bb2-dc3-bb1.ams1.poneytelecom.eu  0.0%    10   16.6  16.5  16.4  17.3   0.0
 4. 195.154.1.185                     0.0%    10   17.5  17.4  17.3  17.5   0.0
 5. 163-172-209-20.rev.poneytelecom.  0.0%    10   15.6  15.6  15.5  15.6   0.0










AMS1 new location (Evoswitch DC). Online Dedibox XC and SC lines, and OneProvider C2350 and C2750 offers  for the AMS1 launch.  Scaleway adding AMS1 location sometime in the future.

 

[DomainBop]

This announcement will no doubt get some people excited because people have been begging for this since Scaleway launched:
 

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