Scaleway Stardust Instances

Re:Scaleway Stardust Instances by othercharles on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @05:17PM (#25203643)

Price/perf of this is hidden by the tiny slice of hardware you get. Equivalent to my Hetzner machine would be 116 Euro/mo. before accounting for the 10x higher peak bandwidth, 2x capacity dedicated NVMe, 4TB of magnetic storage and 100GB of backup space I get for 60 Euro/mo.

I have no idea what "1 vCPU" means in this context but severely doubt it even means "1 hyperthread", unless the physical hardware were something like dual 16 core or single 32 core chips.

Definite pass

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Re:Scaleway Stardust Instances by rualca on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @02:45AM (#25206831)

> I have no idea what "1 vCPU" means in this context but severely doubt it even means "1 hyperthread" (...)

I don't believe anyone looking into this sort of offering is expecting even or looking for "1 hyperthread". Hell, obviously they aren't looking for performance. I mean, they are marketing this as a node to test scaleway's services and put up small websites. I'm sure that performance-minded customers are planning to run anything performant on a 1vCPU instance with 1GB of RAM.

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Re:Scaleway Stardust Instances by Aeolun on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @07:01AM (#25208330)

Scale out, not up! You can run your entire stack on 1gb instances.

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Re:Scaleway Stardust Instances by jacob019 on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @09:28AM (#25209538)

Sometimes scaling up is a better choice. Reduced complexity.

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