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by nisa 3419 days ago
I have a VC1S (or what seems to be now start cloud für 2,99€) in Paris.

Network is stable and fast enough for me (iperf ~500Mbit to 800Mbit to Hetzner / DFN).

CPUs are Intel Atom Avoton - these are slower than a 'real' Xeon Core, not as slow as the dedicated ARM boxes. I'm just serving static content and do some rsync on the box for that it's perfectly fine. If you are on an overbooked Droplet you have similiar/worse performance.

Everything else is pretty much not so great. IPv6 is a joke you get a single address + gateway /127 - Snapshots only work when machine is offline - it's not possible to easily resize or move machines between Paris/Amsterdam.

Storage is over nbd afaik not local but it was always fast enough for me.

You don't have control over your kernel and you have to use what Scaleway offers you - althrough there are some hacks that are not reboot-safe to fiddle with iPXE - so you can even run *BSD - https://community.online.net/t/openbsd-on-a-vc1/1933

But you get worse deals for 2,99€ from most VPN providers. If you want to use it for something serious I'd be careful through and do some throughough testing and benchmarking before.