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Packet vs Scaleway: What are the differences?

What is Packet? The Leading Bare Metal Cloud for Developers. Deploy screaming fast dedicated servers in under 10 minutes via portal, API, or common cloud orchestration tools. No hypervisor, modern IPv6 network, and hourly pricing.

What is Scaleway? BareMetal SSD cloud servers. Scaleway is the best platform to deploy BareMetal ARM & X64 SSD cloud servers. Enjoy a new cloud computing experience!.

Packet and Scaleway can be categorized as "Cloud Hosting" tools.

Some of the features offered by Packet are:

  • Premium configs, always available
  • Fully dedicated, no hypervisors
  • Deploy in less than 10 minutes

On the other hand, Scaleway provides the following key features:

  • A fantastic user experience that gives you the power to spawn your servers in two clicks.
  • Deploy dedicated SSD servers with constant and predictable performance in 44 seconds.
  • Uptime and response time guarantee for mission critical services backed by our 24x7 support team.

"Great performance" is the primary reason why developers consider Packet over the competitors, whereas "Scalable" was stated as the key factor in picking Scaleway.

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Pros of Equinix Metal
Pros of Scaleway
  • 3
    Great performance
  • 3
    No multi tenancy
  • 2
    Fantastic customer support
  • 30
    Scalable
  • 25
    Dedicated
  • 25
    Cost effective
  • 21
    Bare-metal
  • 14
    Open source
  • 12
    Arm architecture
  • 11
    Simple billing
  • 9
    Isolation
  • 8
    Security
  • 6
    Power
  • 5
    Cheap
  • 3
    Good at min money
  • 3
    Static IP
  • 3
    CentOS
  • 2
    Ubuntu
  • 2
    S3 compatible object storage
  • 2
    Terraform integration
  • 2
    OpenVPN
  • 2
    Additional SSD storage in demand
  • 1
    Local Networking
  • 1
    Imagehub
  • 1
    Reserve IP
  • 1
    Image Snapshots
  • 1
    Debian
  • 1
    Gentoo
  • 1
    Linux
  • 1
    Fedora
  • 1
    OpenSUSE
  • 1
    Arch Linux
  • 1
    Alpine Linux
  • 1
    Unmetered
  • 1
    SSH access
  • 1
    Simple UI
  • 1
    IPV6

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What is Equinix Metal?

As part of Equinix — the world’s digital infrastructure company — we provide automated & interconnected infrastructure. Formerly Packet, now Equinix Metal™.

What is Scaleway?

European cloud computing company proposing a complete & simple public cloud ecosystem, bare-metal servers & private datacenter infrastructures.

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