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Good enough, with a few caveats
I'm kinder on Scaleway than I'd be on a provider such as GCP, because they are much smaller and trying to do things differently. Yes, the UI isn't the best, they're still coming up with new products, etc. But hey, it's a business trying to position itself as more ethical than most! And so far the experience has been pleasant: we've relied on their customer support twice (plus a few uses of their Slack) and our issues were solved. The specific negatives I've experienced are: - Private networks are per-location, but some other components are per-region. So we can't protect Object Storage by locating it inside a VPC. I guess that makes sense, but it's not ideal. - Managed databases couldn't be part of a private network. They actually changed this recently, but by that point I had given up on private networks altogether. - Instance-to-instance traffic in private networks could be much better. Some providers go beyond gigabit speeds. - Object storage stopped working for a few days due to a change in the signing algorithm, but we weren't notified. The team mitigated the issue after a week or so, but I would've liked to know that it might be coming. I ended up upgrading to S3's v4 signing algorithm to solve the problem on our end. - IPs can't be assigned between objects of different types. This is a reasonable shortcoming, but it meant I couldn't simply point a Public Gateway's IP to an instance, and had to update DNS as well. - DHCP resolution in private networks was a bit spotty and/or the issue was with automatic mappings. I ended using manual NAT and mapping things myself. - I still haven't managed to deploy their Docker-based automatic containers. The resources of the container are too limited to successfully deploy our Python containers. On the other hand, there's some nice positives: - Pricing is competitive. - The managed database has been flawless so far. Automated backups and failover nodes are nice and not as expensive as competitor's. - SSH performance is pretty good. I've used other providers where SSH is almost unusable as characters only show up after 1 second or more. - Migrating out of a private network was simple enough, as the instances acquired public IPs immediately and I was able to update DNS in real-time. So all in all, we're happy with them. That said, we are considering some of their competitors that share a similar stance (EU-based, ethical, renewable energy), because then we'd be able to finally centralize our entire infrastructure.