Scaleway specialized server management

Scaleway Managed Services:
Instances & Dedibox Monitoring

RDEM Systems provides managed services for your Scaleway servers: Instances, Dedibox, Elastic Metal monitoring and maintenance.

  • ✓ 24/7 proactive monitoring with CheckMK
  • ✓ On-call support with 4-hour SLA
  • ✓ Automated backups
  • ✓ Security updates & patch management

Your Scaleway MSP from 70 EUR/month. Free quote within 48 hours.

Scaleway is an excellent hosting provider. Not a managed service provider.

Scaleway provides high-performance Elastic Metal servers, a sovereign cloud, and reliable object storage. But once your instance is delivered, you are responsible for everything running on it.

S What Scaleway does

  • Provide hardware (Elastic Metal, instances, storage)
  • Ensure network connectivity and power supply
  • Replace faulty hardware (bare-metal)
  • Technical support for the Scaleway platform

! What Scaleway does NOT do

  • Monitor your services (Apache, Nginx, PostgreSQL, Redis...)
  • Apply OS security updates
  • Manage and test your application backups
  • Call you at 3am when your app crashes

In short: Scaleway handles the physical infrastructure. Everything above that — OS, services, security, backups, application availability — is your responsibility. Or your managed service provider's.

What RDEM Systems does on your Scaleway servers

24/7 proactive monitoring

Continuous monitoring of your Elastic Metal servers and cloud instances: CPU, RAM, disk, network, application services. Automated alerts with immediate response.

Security updates

Regular patch management: OS, packages, critical CVEs. Your Scaleway servers stay up to date and protected without you having to think about it.

Supervised backups

Configuration, monitoring, and restore testing of your backups. Compatible with Scaleway Object Storage, snapshots, and third-party solutions.

On-call support: 4h / 1h response time

Guaranteed response within 4 hours (or 1 hour for critical infrastructure), 24/7/365. PagerDuty, automatic escalations, systematic post-mortems. How our on-call rotation works in practice: shared across the managed Scaleway fleet, so you get a permanent team without paying for a dedicated full-time engineer.

Operational Maintenance

Continuous preventive maintenance: log rotation, performance optimization, cleanup, TLS certificate renewal.

Full Scaleway stack

Elastic Metal, DEV1/GP1/PRO2 instances, Object Storage, Kubernetes Kapsule, managed databases: we monitor your entire stack.

Scaleway products we manage

Elastic Metal (Bare-Metal)

High-performance dedicated servers. We manage the OS, services, monitoring, and on-call support. Ideal for intensive workloads: databases, compute, virtualization.

Cloud Instances (DEV1, GP1, PRO2, POP2)

Scaleway virtual instances. Resource monitoring, scaling, updates. Perfect for web applications, APIs, microservices.

Object Storage & Block Storage

Quota monitoring, capacity alerts, IAM access control, availability and performance monitoring for your buckets.

Kubernetes Kapsule & Managed Databases

Cluster health checks, pod monitoring, CrashLoopBackOff alerts, node pool updates. Monitoring of managed PostgreSQL/MySQL databases.

Our recommendation: Proxmox VE on your Scaleway server

As part of our managed server service, we recommend installing Proxmox VE (free, open-source) on your dedicated Scaleway server. Proxmox VE can be installed on Elastic Metal via the Scaleway custom ISO.

  • Native PBS backup: automatic VM backup to NimbusBackup, off-site at Equinix Paris — included in your management contract
  • Snapshots before every update: instant rollback if something goes wrong, with no downtime
  • Service isolation: each application in its own VM, no domino effect in case of a breach
  • Live migration: move a VM from one server to another without downtime (useful when changing Scaleway tiers)
  • No licensing cost: Proxmox VE is 100% open-source, unlike VMware. Proxmox support subscriptions are available and recommended for business-critical environments.

Already running Proxmox VE on your server? Perfect, NimbusBackup integration is immediate. Running bare Linux/Windows? We handle the migration to Proxmox VE as part of onboarding.

Learn more about Proxmox VE

Scaleway managed server pricing

Same pricing for an entry-level Elastic Metal or a high-performance cloud instance.

Essential
70 EUR excl. VAT/mo
Popular
Pro
150 EUR excl. VAT/mo
Critical
250 EUR excl. VAT/mo
Monitoring 7am-10pm 7d/7 24/7/365 24/7/365
Monitoring
Security updates
Support Email / Member portal Email / Member portal Email / Member portal
Production incidents PagerDuty PagerDuty PagerDuty
On-call support 7am-10pm 7d/7 24/7 — 4h response time 24/7 — 1h response time
Included in your contract
Proxmox VE Recommended Recommended Included in service
Off-site backup
NimbusBackup PBS
Equinix Paris
250 GB
Single Drive
500 GB
Single Drive
1 TB Single Drive
or 500 GB Double Drive
(2 datacenters)
AirGapped option
Offline disk
+10 EUR/month
500 GB AirGapped
Extra storage 12 EUR/TB/month 12 EUR/TB/month 12 EUR/TB/month

Pricing per server, excl. VAT. The NimbusBackup PBS backup is a benefit of your management contract, not a separate product. Request a custom quote →

Incident triggering via PagerDuty

In case of a confirmed production outage, you trigger an incident via PagerDuty (credentials provided upon contract signing). Our on-call team is alerted immediately.

Legitimate incident:

  • Server unreachable
  • Critical service down
  • Ongoing data loss
  • Suspected security breach

Not an incident — use email:

  • Non-urgent technical question
  • Planned change request
  • Minor slowness with no business impact

Abusive triggering outside of production outages: 100 EUR excl. VAT per incident. This measure ensures on-call availability for genuine emergencies.

Your backups should not be at Scaleway

If your backups are on the same server or the same hosting provider as your production environment, an incident (ransomware, datacenter failure, human error) destroys both at the same time.

With your RDEM management contract, a NimbusBackup PBS volume is included: your Proxmox VMs are automatically backed up to our Equinix Paris infrastructure, physically separate from Scaleway.

Essential

250 GB

Single Drive — included

Pro

500 GB

Single Drive — included

Critical

1 TB

Single Drive — included

or 500 GB Double Drive (2 sites)

AirGapped option +10 EUR/month

Need more storage? Additional volume at 12 EUR/TB/month on NimbusBackup.

Scaleway snapshots remain on the same infrastructure. No long-term retention, no air-gap.

Frequently Asked Questions About Scaleway Server Management

What is the pricing for Scaleway server management?
Scaleway server management starts at €249/month for Elastic Metal or Bare Metal with 24/7 monitoring, on-call support, and backups. Since Scaleway offers more competitive cloud pricing than OVH, our management services are also optimized accordingly.
What is Elastic Metal and how does it differ from Bare Metal?
Elastic Metal is the new generation of Scaleway dedicated servers, deployable in minutes with hourly billing. Bare Metal corresponds to traditional servers with monthly commitment. Both are managed by RDEM with the same level of expertise.
Are you certified or a Scaleway partner?
RDEM Systems is a recognized Scaleway expert with over 5 years of experience on their infrastructure. We currently manage 50+ Scaleway servers for our clients and maintain privileged contact with their support teams.
Do you manage Dedibox (legacy Scaleway ranges)?
Yes, we manage complete Dedibox management (legacy Online.net ranges acquired by Scaleway). Our expertise covers all generations: Dedibox Classic, Pro, and migration to Elastic Metal.
Can I easily migrate between OVH and Scaleway with your assistance?
Absolutely. We regularly perform OVH ↔ Scaleway migrations (both directions). Migration planned outside business hours, with comprehensive validation testing and zero service interruption. Free quote available.

Your Scaleway servers deserve 24/7 monitoring

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