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it all seems a bit fishy

there ads for scaleway on the linkedin page on cloud-mercato, "A week ago, Scaleway release the European VM with the lowest price. This week, place to the biggest machine with 448 CPU and 7.6 TB of RAM aka "#baremetall Ultimate Performance"." they only have 1 employee on linkedin, company location paris

the website is owned by a portugese company called balladscale with 2 employees and generates $56,524 in sales (USD).

unless cloud-mercato is just a buggy mess, it feels like its been put up in last minute, there bugs everywhere

after logging in with a computer

they dont even offer a "price score" for hetzner https://imgur.com/a/ymMUTj0

and dont offer a storage performance for scaleway https://imgur.com/a/3qZuxdK

they do offer to a "compute score" comparison with both in it and the hetzner machine is somehow ~3% slower, but that doesnt make up the price difference metrics on scaleway website

https://imgur.com/a/o7MO8Nb



Scaleway is owned by Iliad Group. It's a legit subsidiary of a legit multi billion dollar French telecom corporation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad_SA

Edit: Ah, the concern is Cloud Mercato, cited in the benchmark graphs.


The fishy parts are about cloud-mercato Not scaleway


I'm using scaleway for more than 3 years. Moved to thm all my websites.




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