Dear readers,
I tried to use different operating systems and hardware architectures for my Tor relays for diversity. So I came to the Parisian provider Scaleways, which has a cheap offer for ARM servers for € 2.99 per month. Debian was available with architecture "armhf / armv7l". I knew that, but I did not want to believe it. After performance trouble and a server crash I tested "/etc/cpuinfo" and 'lscpu'. There are Raspberry Pi in the cloud! From my personal device at home I know, that full cpu performance will kill the device due to overheating. Oh no! Must change to the next offer with x86_64 for € 11,99 / month. What can I expect? An old Pentium with 400MHz?
https://www.scaleway.com/baremetal-cloud-servers/
My order was "C1 - A true metal ARM server running in the cloud."
"4 Dedicated ARM Cores, 2GB Memory, 50GB SSD Disk / 200Mbit/s unmetered bandwith"
The information for interested parties only. No discussion required.
Olaf
On 1 May 2018, at 22:53, Olaf Grimm jeep665@posteo.de wrote:
Dear readers,
I tried to use different operating systems and hardware architectures for my Tor relays for diversity. So I came to the Parisian provider Scaleways, which has a cheap offer for ARM servers for € 2.99 per month. Debian was available with architecture "armhf / armv7l". I knew that, but I did not want to believe it. After performance trouble and a server crash I tested "/etc/cpuinfo" and 'lscpu'. There are Raspberry Pi in the cloud! From my personal device at home I know, that full cpu performance will kill the device due to overheating. Oh no! Must change to the next offer with x86_64 for € 11,99 / month. What can I expect? An old Pentium with 400MHz?
https://www.scaleway.com/baremetal-cloud-servers/
My order was "C1 - A true metal ARM server running in the cloud."
"4 Dedicated ARM Cores, 2GB Memory, 50GB SSD Disk / 200Mbit/s unmetered bandwith"
I think you are mistaken. As far as I know they use Cavium ThunderX processors. https://www.cavium.com/product-thunderx-arm-processors.html
Can you share more details what make you thinking you are on Raspberry Pi?
On Wed, 02 May 2018 04:20:57 -0400 Artur Pedziwilk cb86eb08b7299219c1af5dbcaddd4ede@protonmail.ch wrote:
https://www.scaleway.com/baremetal-cloud-servers/
My order was "C1 - A true metal ARM server running in the cloud."
"4 Dedicated ARM Cores, 2GB Memory, 50GB SSD Disk / 200Mbit/s unmetered bandwith"
I think you are mistaken. As far as I know they use Cavium ThunderX processors. https://www.cavium.com/product-thunderx-arm-processors.html
They have a range of ARM64-based VPS, those indeed use Cavium ThunderX.
But they also provide ARM dedicated servers (with shared network-based storage) https://www.cnx-software.com/2015/09/02/scaleway-c1-dedicated-arm-server-pri... Those use 32-bit Marvell Armada SoC, have much lower performance than Cavium and AFAIK are considered a legacy offer to be phased out over time. (They did not receive IPv6 support when the rest of the plans got it deployed, for example).
Can you share more details what make you thinking you are on Raspberry Pi?
This is certainly not a Raspberry Pi, and overheating concerns are unfounded; before providing this as a commercial service to the general public, I'm sure they figured out ways to provide sufficient cooling so it can be used 24x7 no matter what's the CPU load.
But in any case, Online.net is already heavily utilized for Tor relays and exits, so can't be considered the best choice to add another one at.
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