Scaleway introduces new x64 virtual servers up to 8GB of RAM for €9.99/mo

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16 points·edouardb··7 comments

Last I checked they were using some pretty old 32-bit ARM cores (probably Cortex-A9). They should try and get some of these, if the offer is good:

https://www.apm.com/news/appliedmicro-announces-x-gene-3-the...

Also, I assume these are Atom cores? (Avoton or whatever Intel calls them for servers).

Yes it's Avoton CPU https://www.scaleway.com/faq/server/#-Why-did-you-go-back-to...

Here's the ARK page for them: http://ark.intel.com/products/codename/54859/Avoton

It seems like they're actually not that bad: http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Xeon-E3-1220-v2-vs-Intel-Atom-...

Are the servers using ECC memory? Can't find any information about that.

Why Avoton then? You just lost a sale.

I shouldn't have assumed ECC, but if you have a group designing your own hardware then routing another 8 wires shouldn't be a problem.

I'm disappointed.

Same here. We have actually run into ECC issues before and it's a bloody nightmare when local files and backup files are overwritten with corrupt data. If you don't notice it in time (we noticed it after two days due to widely different MD5 checksums of backups) all of the data might be lost and if you are lucky, you will see some service go down (as a sort of warning) before it's too late.

And no, ZFS is not a guarantee here! (It can actually make it worse since it keep a ton of data in RAM)

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