Scaleway C2 Ramp Up: 10 000 BareMetal Servers per Month

Re:Scaleway C2 Ramp Up: 10 000 BareMetal Servers per Month by mstolpm on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @05:35AM (#11861051)

Has anyone already tried scaleways C2 instances and can share some insights? I've tried their other offers (not BareMetal) and had mixed results.

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Re:Scaleway C2 Ramp Up: 10 000 BareMetal Servers per Month by ciot1CDM on Wednesday June 08, 2016 @04:45PM (#11865517)

Beware: their servers do not use ECC memory.

I believe building reliable, internet-scale services on such hardware is impossible. Having single bit errors, which are hardly rare [0], silently propagate is a recipe for disaster.

I applaud Scaleway for the foresight of building custom, sale-out hardware, however, that this is their second effort and still lacking in ECC use is very, very, disappointing.

I would love to use this hardware, it's almost the perfect design, but it's tragically flawed as is.

[0] DRAM Errors in the Wild: A Large-Scale Field Study http://research.google.com/pubs/pub35162.html

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