C2: Insanely Affordable x86-64 Servers
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C2: Insanely Affordable x86-64 Servers
Cloud Riders, we have some exciting news today: our new servers offers are now available! The C2 is now ready and at an insanely low price.
Let's go straight to the point, today we're launching the C2, our new BareMetal server, in 3 different variants starting at €11.99 per month or €0.024 per hour:
Price Variant Cores Ram Bandwidth €11.99 C2S 4 x86-64 8GB 2.5Gbit/s - 300 Mbit/s €17.99 C2M 8 x86-64 16GB 5Gbit/s - 500 Mbit/s €23.99 C2L 8 x86-64 32GB 5Gbit/s - 800 Mbit/sLike the C1, this price includes 50GB of SSD storage upgradable up to 1TB per server in a few clicks. For the first time on market, we're introducing next generation 2500Base-X networking as a standard feature with one 2500Base-X NIC on the C2S and two 2500Base-X NICs on the C2M and C2L, allowing for 5Gbit/s of internal bandwidth.
You can get up to 800Mbit/s of internet bandwidth with unlimited transfer, you won't get any bad surprise with bandwidth fees!The C2 server has been designed in our HQ in Paris, it's based on Intel Avoton SoCs for a maximum of efficiency.
We're also introducing a new type of SSD on our C2L offer: Direct SSD. Direct SSDs (DSSD) are directly connected SSDs to the server through a SATA port to remove all bottlenecks. DSSDs are made for distributed database or data intensive applications. The C2L comes with 250GB of Direct SSD. Keep in mind that DSSD are tied to the physical server, they will be erased when you stop your server from the control panel.
You could already scale out with the C1, you can now scale up your server to 32GB through your control panel.
Starter VariantWe're also launching a new kind of server: Scaleway VPS.
This is our new generation of product for affordable servers. They are designed for low requirements environment: test, develop or simply deploy your first app on it!Our Starter VPS comes with 2GB of ram, 2 x86-64 Cores, 50GB of LSSD and 200 Mbit/s of unmeted bandwidth.
It's available at the insane price of €2.99 per month or €0.02 per hour.
Our Starter VPS beats, from far, comparable products on market both pricewise and performancewise.This new VPS offer comes with the same features as our BareMetal offers:
- Snapshots
- Flexible, remappable IPs
- Images
- Security Groups
As such, you can start to develop with a VPS and scale up to a BareMetal server directly from the control panel.
Scaleway is now the first cloud platform worldwide to allow a seamless transition between VPS and BareMetal servers.
As always, you're billed by the hour up to a monthly cap of 500 hours.
Getting startedWe receive new servers every day for our infrastructure and our team is working to get enough supply for the huge demand we've got. As the demand still exceeds the stock we have, the Scaleway cloud platform can only be accessed with an invite until April. Register now on the waiting list to get your invite as soon as possible!
Ubuntu, Debian, Alpine Linux and the Docker InstantApp are already available on our new VPS and C2s.
If you have any pricing or technical questions, joins us on the community platform, tweet us at @scaleway or open a support ticket, we're always happy to help.
Enjoy!
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Horrible OS Choice and it seems like there is no custom ISO option
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I guess I could install Xen on top of Ubuntu?
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@aaronstuder said:
I guess I could install Xen on top of Ubuntu?
Ubuntu will allow a Xen install, but it will move Xen to be what runs on the bare metal. So they may limit you. These often do by controlling the kernel.
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I want to be able to have a bunch of 512MB CentOS7 servers.....
Can anyone think of a good way to do that?
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@aaronstuder said:
I want to be able to have a bunch of 512MB CentOS7 servers.....
Can anyone think of a good way to do that?
A bunch? Like how many? Ten, one hundred? What's the end goal? What storage and CPU do you want or need?
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@scottalanmiller I use very little CPU or Harddrive Space. What I need is RAM
I was thinking about 15 - 20 VMs
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Basically a hosted home lab
Basic Web Server
OwnCloud
JumpboxEtc
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@aaronstuder said:
Basically a hosted home lab
Basic Web Server
OwnCloud
JumpboxEtc
Well. Let's use 20VMs. If you are talking $5 instances, that's going to be $100/mo. You could buy a small server and go to colo for that price.
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For cost effective, a box at home is the best, obviously.
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If you don't want VMs, containers are lighter and faster. So pretty much any system where you can run LXC will do nicely.
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@scottalanmiller said:
If you don't want VMs, containers are lighter and faster. So pretty much any system where you can run LXC will do nicely.
Yup. Exactly what I do on Vultr, and I have a VM at home for LXC. XO runs in LXC and when a new version comes out, Ansible clones it and updates it for me but leaves the old container. I don't have to do any work at all. Then if a bug happens like the recent backup to NFS bug, I just use the old container.
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LXC or LXD?
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With containers I might not need nearly as much RAM
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@scottalanmiller said:
@aaronstuder said:
LXC or LXD?
LXD is an LXC interface.
Ubuntu is working on live migration with LXD. That will be awesome.
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That will be awesome! How do you backup containers?
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@aaronstuder said:
That will be awesome! How do you backup containers?
Just tar the container folder. You can also do file level backups of the containers. LXC by default stores everything in
/var/lib/lxc/so if you want to restore a file tocontainer1you could just cp it back to/var/lib/lxc/container1/root/pathtofolder/ -
@johnhooks Can I do that with the containers running?
