Scaleway (previously Online SAS or Online.net) is a French

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and

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company, founded by

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in 1999 and a majority owned subsidiary of the

Iliad The ''Iliad'' (; grc, Ἰλιάς, Iliás, ; "a poem about Ilium") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the ''Odysse ...

group. The company provides physical dedicated servers and cloud computing architectures through Scaleway Dedibox and Scaleway Elements brands, domain registration services through the BookMyName brand, and colocation services in its datacenters through the brand Scaleway Datacenters. The company is the second player in

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with over

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of Internet traffic. Repeat software entrepreneur Yann Lechelle joined as CEO in early 2020.

History

In 1999, Online started its activities in

and

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registration services In August 2002, the domain name registrar BookMyName has been bought by Iliad from the concurrent LDCom. In May 2006, rental of

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through the Dedibox brand was launched. In December 2008, Iliad bought Alice ADSL: They also took over construction and operation of Datacenters, launched in 1999 by ISDnet, bought by Cable & Wireless in January 2000 acquired by

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France in June 2003 and finally renamed as Iliad Datacenter. In April 2010, Online merges with Dedibox, another subsidiary of

, bringing together different hosting activities under a single brand. In 2012, the company has opened its third datacenter of 11800 m² in

Vitry-sur-Seine Vitry-sur-Seine () is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France, from the centre of Paris. Name Vitry-sur-Seine was originally called simply Vitry. The name Vitry comes from Medieval Latin ''Vitriacum'', and before that ''Victoria ...

after 11 months of construction works. The site received the first Tier-III certification in France by

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in January 2014. Since 2012, the company publishes in real time the PUE of its datacenters on pue.online.net, in an effort of transparency. In 2013, Online launched labs.online.net in preview. An

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offer, based on dedicated hardware and without virtualization, based on

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CPUs. The hardware is made in a factory near

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in France. In April 2015 the service left its

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status and has been renamed as Scaleway. As the popularity of the platform grows, Online added servers with

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based CPUs in March 2016. In 2020, Yann Lechelle stepped up as the CEO.

Infrastructure

Datacenters

Scaleway owns and operates several

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s, all located in the

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region. * ''DC2'', with a size of m² in

, within the

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. The building has been constructed in 1989 by NMPP (

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), then successively taken over by ISDNet, Cable & Wireless,

, then

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, and is therefore an indirect product of the acquisition of Alice ADSL by Iliad. * ''DC3'', with a size of m² in the same city is divided into several private spaces. It was built in 2012 by the group. It has reached its capacity in early 2016 and works have been planned to extend its capacity by m2. * ''DC4'', with a size of m² on six floors in the

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, housed in the former anti-atomic fallout shelter of the "Laboratoire central des ponts et chaussées". It was built between 1936 and 1939 by architect

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, the building was acquired by Iliad in 2011. The main part of the fallout shelter is being used for the C14 offer. * ''DC5'', with a size of m² on four floors at

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. It is the result of the acquisition of an old mail sorting center of La Poste, and will handle the growth from 2017-2025 of the hoster. In the past the company operated also: * ''DC1'', with a size of 6300 m² in

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, which also hosts the network head of Free. Built in 2001 by the American company

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then taken back by

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, after the bankruptcy of the company. It is leased to

on a long-term contract since 2003 This site does not host any activities of Online since 2013.

Connectivity

Since August 2013, the network of Online is ''AS12876 ONLINE S.A.S''. It is independent of the one of Free, which was not the case before. This allowed the company to move away from the closed

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policy of the internet service provider. In early 2015, the company announced to have exceeded

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of immediate Internet traffic. In May 2016, Online shows a total of

of capacity on his links at their weather-map and is present at the following

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, Equinix-IX, AMS-IX and Neutral Internet Exchange

Notes and references

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