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Scaleway vs WebFaction: What are the differences?
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!.
What is WebFaction? Hosting for developers: full shell access to fast servers with all your favorite tools pre-installed and maintained for you. No need to spend hours installing and configuring the software, database and other tools. We have over 50 one-click installers in our control panel.
Scaleway and WebFaction belong to "Cloud Hosting" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Scaleway are:
- 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.
On the other hand, WebFaction provides the following key features:
- 100GB diskspace, RAID-10 setup
- 512MB application RAM
- Free RAM for web and database servers
"Scalable" is the top reason why over 26 developers like Scaleway, while over 2 developers mention "Cost effective" as the leading cause for choosing WebFaction.
Pros of Scaleway
- Scalable30
- Dedicated25
- Cost effective25
- Bare-metal21
- Open source14
- Arm architecture12
- Simple billing11
- Isolation9
- Security8
- Power6
- Cheap5
- Good at min money3
- Static IP3
- CentOS3
- Ubuntu2
- S3 compatible object storage2
- Terraform integration2
- OpenVPN2
- Additional SSD storage in demand2
- Local Networking1
- Imagehub1
- Reserve IP1
- Image Snapshots1
- Debian1
- Gentoo1
- Linux1
- Fedora1
- OpenSUSE1
- Arch Linux1
- Alpine Linux1
- Unmetered1
- SSH access1
- Simple UI1
- IPV61
Pros of WebFaction
- Cost effective3
- Great customer support3
- Servers administered for you3
- Comes with Rails installed automatically2
- Great documentation1
- SSH access1
- Best price1
- SSD1
- Many pre-installed apps1
- Having the least amount of new "fancy" terminologies1
- No needs configuration1