Review of Online.net / Scaleway - 2022
This is the worst provider ever. I've bought Start-2-L server from them with specs:
Intel® Xeon® D-1531, 32 GB, 2 x 250 GB SSD and 4 failover IPs.
Firstly they don't support Proxmox 7, just Proxmox 6 which is outdated. But for Start-3-L which has same processor and just double disk they support Proxmox 7, nonsense. I've spent hours to upgrade Proxmox 6 to 7 and verify that's everything ok (ifupdown2, etc).
Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/C7SbjJi.png
After that, the ordered failover IPs are blacklisted, so forget to use them for mailing.
Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/kmjftQ7
And now the grand finale, disks are very slow. I've benchmarkd them when I purchased the server and they were normal, I've posted a review on forum:
https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/96384#Comment_96384
and from one moment everything goes wrong with disks, and they don't even have parts to replace them.
Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/M3A8wJn.png
How can they f*ck up two disks with 1% of wearout??? I guess they regret for selling this server for 23.99€ / mo.
Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/fHuM19n.png
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I think you have abandoned a SYS server for this sh*t.
Proxmox 6 to 7 is actually easy, Proxmox 7 install on Debian can backfire.
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Looks like the steroid effect has worn out.
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That's the spirit!
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Those disk speeds are fine, assuming you're running RAID1 or single disk. It's normal for a single low capacity (<=250GB) SATA SSD to run at those speeds. I've noticed that 250GB SSD's and below have especially low throughput speeds (maybe 250MB/s-350MB/s), while 500GB+ usually have ~500MB/s throughput. I don't think they messed up the disks in any way, I think that's just the speed that a Samsung 850 EVO 250GB runs at.
This is the only benchmark I could find, and it appears that the average score is ~370MB/s for an 850 EVO 250GB, so your Yabs result is right on par for the course assuming that this is accurate:
https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Samsung-850-Evo-250GB/Rating/2977
Also, does your application really need high disk throughput? If so, you should've gone NVMe anyways. It's still SSD disk and will likely be very speedy, regardless of what the synthetic benchmarks show.
It shouldn't take a couple hours to upgrade from VE 6 to VE 7, it should only take a couple of commands and 20 minutes at most. Not every dedicated server provider even provides Proxmox templates. Is there anything in particular that you struggled with on Online.net? OVH has also been quite picky with OS templates, some servers from OVH don't support Proxmox or even CentOS but some do. It's weird. Back when I had a couple of SYS servers, I had to manually install Proxmox on some of them.
You also shouldn't be using these types of providers for mailing, you never know what's going to be blacklisted. Online.net is not alone, some Hetzner and OVH IP's are also blacklisted too. I would recommend using something like SES or asking a provider beforehand whether or not mailing is fine.
The images you've provided are barely readable - so maybe I'm missing the whole story here 🤔
Anyways, no offense against you, just saying that all of the reasons you listed don't necessarily make them the "worst provider ever" and I feel like you're not being fair to Online.net. Although, I do agree, the fact that they don't carry replacement parts is unacceptable - they should have some onsite.
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all that for 23e/m lol
the OP live in the clouds
Much better to install Proxmox from Debian, in any case, as then you can determine partitioning etc.
It wisnae me! A big boy done it and ran away.
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Sounds like you got some:
and on that note:
This was my Yabs after few days of that 370MB/s: https://pastebin.com/raw/scFcbwSu
They have checked disks and told they were f*cked up, but they can not replace them. Instead they offered me:
Intel® C2750 (Avoton), 16 GB, 1 x 250 GB SSD for the same price,
and I've bought:
Intel® Xeon® D-1531, 32 GB, 2 x 250 GB SSD
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LOL.
Scamway.
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I've got a new machine from OVH 24.99€, at least Scaleway will refund me.
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This was Scaleway thing for 23.99€ + 5 IPs (1.99€ each /mo) + setup fees.
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