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French cloud-hosting company Scaleway is updating its lineup of dedicated servers and giving it a new name. Dedicated servers might not be the hot new thing, but many customers still rely on dedicated servers for predictable performances and pricing.

Scaleway originally started as Online.net as the hosting and data center division of Iliad. Its original dedicated servers were an instant hit back in 2005. You could rent your own server for €30 per month, with 1GB of RAM, unlimited 100Mbps bandwidth and 160GB of storage.

This sounds ridiculously underpowered today, but Dedibox has remained a well-known name when it comes to dedicated servers. More recently, Online .net launched a public cloud offering under the Scaleway brand with cloud instances, object storage, block storage, managed…

French company Scaleway has just launched the “Elastic Metal RV1” bare metal servers which it claims to be the world’s first RISC-V servers available in the cloud with pricing at 0.042 Euros per hour, or 15.99 Euros a month excluding VAT.

Scaleway launched some Arm servers based on Marvell Armada 370/XP quad-core Cortex A9 processor in 2015 before phasing those out a few years ago, and they are now just offering AMD and Intel-based servers and hosted Apple Mac computers based on the M1 Arm chip. But the company has decided to try something new again with the EM-RV1 servers based on Alibaba T-Head TH1520 quad-core RISC-V processor, 16GB RAM, and 128GB eMMC flash and running Debian, Ubuntu, or Alpine.

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The French cloud computing infrastructure provider Scaleway SAS today announced the availability of what it calls Cost-Optimized instances based on the Arm central processing unit architecture, targeted at real-time artificial intelligence and high-performance computing workloads.

The cost-optimized COP-ARM instances are powered by Ampere Computing LLC’s Ampere Altra CPUs, which are said to be a more cost-effective and high-performing alternative to Intel Corp’s x86 processors.

Scaleway is a cloud infrastructure provider that targets developers and scaling businesses with more affordable services than those offered by giants such as Amazon Web Services Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Google Cloud. Among its services, it offers web hosting, cloud hosting, dedicated servers, private…