I was using Scalway's ARM (Cavium) 2core/2GB instance for a web application (HTML+Minimal Vanilla JS+Go+PSQL) until they suddenly pulled the plug on their ARM instances. I didn't like the way they did it and so I migrated to AWS x86 T2.micro 1core/1GB, but surprisingly the application seems faster here although I think Scaleway had greater network bandwidth.
It may be that I didn't use ARM optimized version of PostgreSQL or some other variable I'm missing. But anyways Apple M1 could be more performant than any of the low-mid x86 offering considering the work is optimized for ARM.
Received the first email in April telling, technical support would end in July and servers pulled out by December. No detail or technical documentation on why they had to do it and just pointed their customers to the migration document.
What about those customers who had spent extensive resources on optimising their work for ARM, when they forced a x86 migration?
A cloud provider can do better than just 3 months notice. Naturally it was not just me who was unhappy[1].
It may be that I didn't use ARM optimized version of PostgreSQL or some other variable I'm missing. But anyways Apple M1 could be more performant than any of the low-mid x86 offering considering the work is optimized for ARM.