[Bradford] Online - a company not a question

[Devo Too]

I think it would be difficult to pre-script Arch installations to do 
that. This is the second company I've come across this month who have 
had to rewrite since whoever got one previous to mine. That was at an 
OVH subsidiary, Kimsufi. Not had any problems since it went in though. 
OVH is also one of the French Arch repos.

Arch has a "base" installation, which really is base. The server hire 
companies want to batten their offerings down before hiring them out, 
not easy with Arch, so an automated installer needs constant attention.

This seems to me to be an utter waste of time. Once the server is in the 
customer's hands, they have to allow said customer root access and 
access to the full range of repos. My Kimsufi instance bears little 
resemblance what was handed to me. Nor will the Online one within a few 
days. They may as well hand me the key and let me get on with it.

On 25/10/2019 16:55, Alice . via Bradford wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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>
>     <mailto: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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