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One thing that is annoying about Scaleway is that their underlying infrastructure relies on niche things like NBD storage, in-house odd ball booting, etc. So, if you want to run something other than their fixed list of Linux distros, you're in for a lot of hurt. BSD variants are especially frustrating there. Even if you get it working, they will change something to the point where you can't reboot.

To be fair, their standard images work fine, and you can't beat the price.



Their modern VPS instances use regular local drives. There is a local boot option too… but it's broken for now on the ThunderX ARMv8 instances. The docs say "will be enabled in a few days" but they still haven't done it. My FreeBSD/aarch64 install can't boot right now :(




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