Scaleway out of France has been doing baremetal cloud nodes for years. I used them during the beta and they are fantastic (despite slight latency due to being in France). Their smallest baremetal node starts at €3/mo for 4 ARM cores/2GB RAM/50GB SSD. Pretty cool infrastructure to be able to auto provision physical nodes on demand, but I think it's a different use case from the whole lightweight serverless processes on demand thing.
Re:Cloud Computing Without Containers
by discoball on Saturday November 10, 2018 @12:23AM
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If only they supported NixOS... I would use them if/when they make the leap.
Are you sure they don't? NixOS can be installed on top of any Linux distribution, unless the hardware is really weird.
ETA: It looks like it is complicated, but might work. See https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_on_ARM/Scaleway_C1
We replicate each tenant to thousands of servers across more than 150 locations worldwide. That's why we need to support so many tenants per server.
Re:Cloud Computing Without Containers
by discoball on Saturday November 10, 2018 @12:22AM
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Ah. I see. TIL something about CDNs. Thanks. Good stuff.
I think you're assuming that Cloudflare has only one server?
Nope. I’m assuming they can do 10,000 tenants per server. If they did 1 tenant per 1 TinkerBoard and charged $2/mo for it flat no hourly fee that would be an interesting business model IMO and it achieves hard isolation between tenants.
But a Workers customer gets to use more than one of their servers at once....
EDIT to clarify: I’m assuming they can do 10,000 tenants per server. If they did 1 tenant per 1 TinkerBoard and charged $2/mo for it flat no hourly fee that would be an interesting business model IMO and it achieves hard isolation between tenacts.