This is definitely not an ARM-only problem, I also had the same issues for years with both ARM64 and C2.

I deleted my Scaleway account last year after migrating all of my resources over to DO and other providers. I was sick of having to deal with randomly losing access to my servers in intervals of less than half a year.

Now that they're nuking C2 and ARM64 because of stability issues, from a pure price for performance perspective it would make sense for me to return to using their services.. but after my experience battling those issues with their support, it's unlikely.

I can highly recommend hetzner cloud. I run all my new stuff there. Great hardware, good connectivity, good prices, and okay UI to do things in: https://www.hetzner.de/cloud

>over to DO

I tried moving my services to them, during sign up they asked for a scan of my ID and before I could even send it, I got banned "irreversibly" and without a explicitly said reason.

I ended up using Linode instead.

To this day, I still wonder that the hell triggered their systems so bad to ban me before even finishing signing up.

I've been running a TOR node on their ARM server for over a year and it has been stable from the beginning. On average I'm pushing 22.89TiB a month[0]

[0] https://i.imgur.com/rXWYvYa.png

That’s an awful lot of data transfer for a low cost instance.

I think most providers would find a way to pull the plug on that kind of usage.

Online/Scaleway is a subsidiary of Iliad, a French telecom operator. Rumor has it (and it's not far-fetched) that they actively encourage heavy upload usage from Scaleway customers to help balance out their peering and/or transit connections to negotiate better deals.

I agree! If at any point they would've asked me to lower my usage I would've gladly done so. But they never did that so kudos to them. :) Especially considering it costs me 3EU a month.

I run one on hetzner cloud that does similar traffic and it is no problem at all for them. I basically max out the bandwidth at any given moment and they never complained.

Why? It doesn't impact them meaningfully. The instances only have a 200Mbit interface so it's not like you can saturate their pipes.

It's one of their many strong selling points - unmetered traffic, even on their lowest-tier offers.

Hard to say. I have made heavy use of their C1/Arch (dedicated Arm 32-bit) for 4 years now, and medium use of their Arm64/Debian virtualized instances on and off the past 2 years, and have experienced no problems of any kind.

I agree. I was also a happy customer of C1 until they stopped to maintain the kernel. The HW has still been running well, but with no way to install your own kernel either it has become unbearable. Sad to leave them behind.