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Scaleway Blog
Company blog · blog.scaleway.com/en/blogprogrammingsystems
Scaleway Blog is the company blog at blog.scaleway.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2015, 53 different Hacker News readers have linked it 64 times, most often “C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (22) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mostly cite Scaleway's blog as a source for the company's history and server launches, such as its ARM C1/C2 instances, Docker on C1, and its Paris data centre construction.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 22 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2016-03-08
- Scaleway Pricing Evolution3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-07-02
- Online Labs announces Scaleway3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-04-02
- Starter VPS: New Affordable Variants3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-04-05
- We are slashing the C1 price by 70 percent2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-02
- Scaleway announces measures against abusive Chia plotting and farming2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-20
- Scaleway Datacentre Escapes Blaze2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-20
- Scaleway C2 Ramp Up: 10 000 BareMetal Servers per Month2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-06-07
- Our High-Performance SSD Block Storage2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-02-07
- /a-star-is-born-as-scaleway-launches-stardust-the-worlds-most-cost-effective-cloud-instance/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-24
What Hacker News says?
Traffic's a luxury tax (along with RAM) that cloud providers assume that big companies can afford to pay if they're getting that much traffic. Outside of the Cloud Providers Traffic is dirt Cheap, Hetzner includes 30TB traffic inclusive in their dedicated server i7 Quad-Core Skylake 64GB DDR4 RAM, 2x250 GB SATA 6 Gb/s SSD for 39 euro /month: https://www.hetzner.de/us/hosting/produkte_rootserver/ex41ss... If you don'…
Comment linking /2016/03/08/c2-insanely-affordable-x64-servers/
on “Google nabs Apple as a cloud customer”Submitted C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers as a story · 448 points
HN discussionI know nothing about Scaleway, but found these via the link above: https://blog.scaleway.com/tag/docker/ https://www.scaleway.com/imagehub/docker/ what is the problem with kernel? very curious as I would need Docker myself if I was going to use them
Comment linking /tag/docker/
on “C2: Affordable X86-64 Servers”Submitted Natural Language Processing: The Age of Transformers as a story · 200 points
HN discussionThat's for the exact same reason (obvious identification and easy scanning) that I proposed to prefix all Scaleway's access keys with `SCW`. See: https://blog.scaleway.com/strengthening-scaleway-token-secur...
Comment linking /strengthening-scaleway-token-security-policy/
on “API Tokens: A Tedious Survey”Submitted Scaleway announces measures against abusive Chia plotting and farming as a story · 171 points
HN discussionWould have loved to use Hetzner, sadly they rejected a picture of my ID card/passport (with some details blacked out) a few years ago when i tried registering and verifying my identity, i don't think there was any process for appealing to have someone else look at it again, thus my account ended up being blocked. Of course, this is just 1 data point and i'm sure that the experience of other people is more positive i…
Comment linking /a-star-is-born-as-scaleway-launches-stardust-the-worlds-most-cost-effective-cloud-instance/
on “Apple silicon M1 as-a-Service”Submitted We are slashing the C1 price by 70 percent as a story · 113 points
HN discussionOnline Labs[0] turned into Scaleway. There's a blog post about it at [1] -- [0] http://labs.online.net/ [1] https://blog.scaleway.com/2015/04/02/from-online-labs-to-sca...
Comment linking /2015/04/02/from-online-labs-to-scaleway/
on “Scaleway: Bare metal SSD ARM servers”Submitted Scaleway: Incident SSD was stolen during a secure transport between datacenters as a story · 99 points
HN discussionThey are definitely not the first https://www.ikoula.com/en/dedicated-server/raspberry-pi-4-mi... Scaleway was the first to offer ARM based servers (non dedicated) https://blog.scaleway.com/scaleway-become-the-first-arm-base... (2015)
Comment linking /scaleway-become-the-first-arm-based-ubuntu-public-cloud-partner/
on “Hetzner to Offer First Arm-Based Dedicated Servers in Europe”Submitted Starter VPS: New Affordable Variants as a story · 76 points
HN discussionYep! They launched the C1 servers in 2013 and in 2014 they were providing Docker support for them [1]. Of course, those were simple and slow chips and these are 80cores Ampere Altra, but of course, it's not the first dedicated ARM service in Europe. Note: IIRC Scaleway had their C1 servers booting from the network, not local disk, but still... 1: https://blog.scaleway.com/docker-on-c1/
Comment linking /docker-on-c1/
on “Hetzner to Offer First Arm-Based Dedicated Servers in Europe”Submitted From nuclear fallout shelter to data center (Paris) as a story · 44 points
HN discussionThey are part of the working group https://blog.scaleway.com/2020/gaia-x-catalog-demonstrator-g...
Comment linking /2020/gaia-x-catalog-demonstrator-graph/
on “Germany, France launch Gaia-X platform in bid for ‘tech sovereignty’”Submitted Insanely Affordable X64 Cloud Servers as a story · 20 points
HN discussion- 4k · 2015-09-03
But what about bandwidth? That's still shared among all the users, right? And given that they are even advertising 'Seedboxes' and VPN servers [0] hosted in the same network, it makes me doubt the quality of network even more. [0] https://blog.scaleway.com/2015/09/02/we-are-slashing-the-c1-...
Comment linking /2015/09/02/we-are-slashing-the-c1-price-by-70-percent/
on “ARMv7 dedicated servers for 3.40 per month” Submitted Scaleway introduces new x64 virtual servers up to 8GB of RAM for €9.99/mo as a story · 16 points
HN discussionThe C2M is Intel Atom based (Avoton). https://blog.scaleway.com/2016/c2-insanely-affordable-x64-se...
Comment linking /2016/c2-insanely-affordable-x64-servers/
on “Scaleway cloud adds AMD EPYC instances”Submitted Manage ARM BareMetal Servers with Scaleway CLI as a story · 13 points
HN discussionAccording to the blog post "every service, feature and scenario currently provided via its DEV1-S instances will also be available on Stardust Instances" [0]. The DEV1-S is an AMD Epyc and the technical specs match up as well. So, that seems most likely. [0] https://blog.scaleway.com/a-star-is-born-as-scaleway-launche...
Comment linking /a-star-is-born-as-scaleway-launches-stardust-the-worlds-most-cost-effective-cloud-instance/
on “Scaleway Stardust Instances”Submitted Scaleway C2 Ramp Up: 10 000 BareMetal Servers per Month as a story · 12 points
HN discussionIf you want to see more than 2 pictures (one of which is of a small drainage channel), there's a detailed blog post about the construction: https://blog.scaleway.com/2016/c14-story-part-1-meet-our-nuc...
Comment linking /2016/c14-story-part-1-meet-our-nuclear-fallout-shelter/
on “Scaleway's data centre in the catacombs, 26 metres under Paris”Submitted Scaleway Pricing Evolution as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThe timeline of events in Scaleway's blog post is very dubious. If the SSD was stolen over one year ago why do they only acknowledge it now? In March 2021 [1] they were writing about how great their security was: > We are proud of our data centers and their security. We consider that we have implemented the best solutions to protect your most valuable asset: your data. We are well aware of the huge responsibility th…
Comment linking /incident-securitaire-video-youtube/
on “SSD belonging to Euro-cloud Scaleway was stolen,then turned up on YouTube”Submitted Scaleway Releases Serverless Services as a story · 10 points
HN discussionThey're using Atom-based (old 2008 pre-Silvermont Atom architecture) Avoton "microserver chips" that Intel launched in 2013: https://blog.scaleway.com/2016/03/08/c2-insanely-affordable-... http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2292691/intel-launches-avoton... If you want cheap VPS with good performance and reliability you may want to take a look at these as well: http://vpsdime.com/ https://www.ovh.com/us/vps/vps-ssd.xml h…
Comment linking /2016/03/08/c2-insanely-affordable-x64-servers/
on “Starter VPS: New Affordable Variants”Submitted Scaleway C2 Ramp Up: 10 000 BareMetal Servers per Month as a story · 10 points
HN discussionThe C2 bare metal offer is based on the Atom C2000 series, which has the AVR54 errata. They are based on in-house custom hardware [1] and are no longer manufactured. The switching fabric used in this offering only supports stateless firewalls, creating a huge issue of feature parity between offerings. The switch fabric is part of the hardware design, so it is impossible to replace it with something that would suppor…
Comment linking /2015/from-online-labs-to-scaleway/
on “Scaleway C2 and ARM64 instances will reach end-of-life in December 2020”Submitted Starter VPS: New Affordable Variants as a story · 10 points
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