[Bradford] Online - a company not a question

[Alice .]

Ah, the Scaleway brand stuff is all automated. You get dedicated hardware
deployed in about a minute of there's capacity available.

Thanks
Alice


On Fri, 25 Oct 2019, 16:52 Devo Too, <mike.goodman at devotoo.org.uk> wrote:

> That's useful, Alice. And reassuring. I read a lot of their blurb before
> signing up. But that doesn't always tell the whole story. Like how
> responsive they are. It's definitely the same outfit though.
>
> They're making a hell of a meal of configuring Arch on a server. Been at
> it for about 21 or 22 hours now. But I'd wager the guy handling it
> dumped it for another task then forgot to hand it on before going home.
> I had to nudge them again a few hours ago.
>
> The reason for the question was that they haven't actually handed
> anything over yet - now 3 days due to an earlier cockup of theirs - so I
> could still bale out and get a full refund. Oh well. Got too much on
> this weekend so with that reassurance they can have another couple of
> days to push it out.
>
> Mine is small scale stuff too. But it does need an OS. ;-)
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mike
>
> On 25/10/2019 16:32, Alice . wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I can vouch for Scaleway, mostly.  For the hobby/dev stuff I have
> > running on there it's been fine, everything has worked reliably, and
> > pretty quick to spin new VMs up.  I'm not doing anything at any scale
> > though.  And one colleague did have an issue where they lost a VM they
> > had no backups of, but I don't really see that as a Scaleway problem.
> >
> > Looking at the Scaleway website, "Online" seems to be the parent brand
> > of Scaleway.  With most of the operations shifting to running under the
> > Scaleway brand.  I have no dealings with them under the "Online" brand,
> > so I don't know how different that is to the Scaleway brand.
> >
> > https://www.scaleway.com/en/about-us/
> >
> > Thanks
> > Alice
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 at 13:19, Devo Too via Bradford
> > <bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk <mailto:bradford at mailman.lug.org.uk>>
> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi Folks,
> >
> >     Anybody had dealings with a data centre business called "Online" or
> >     "Online by Scaleway"? They have some great offers, with Arch
> available
> >     as OS, SLAAC Ipv6, good memory and storage. But seem a bit slow on
> the
> >     communicating with customers side?
> >
> >     If I take a server from them am I asking for ongoing trouble or have
> >     you
> >     found them OK?
> >
> >     TIA,
> >
> >     Mike
> >
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