Their business plan was using the revolutionary ARM CPUs to make cheap offers with real hardware. That was clear, that's what they sold us in the beginning.
Know they are stuck with it because of their lack of knowledge: the C1 server doesn't even support IPV6!
Stop kidding about "snapshots". They don't offer snapshots at all. Period. You should shutdown your server through the fucking dashboard before you can click the snapshot button. Snapshot is an instant backup made on a running server, otherwise it's useless.
Tell me what you want but I know what I've seen for 3 years with them. Now I and my company are running DO servers, which is way better for the price.
I've not used Scaleway but for what it's worth Digital Ocean's snapshot feature only works offline too (and takes forever to run). I'd also made the same complaints as yourself that an offline "snapshot" isn't really what I would class as a "snapshot". A "clone" would be a more apt description.
Anyhow, semantics aside, I seriously wouldn't recommend DO for any serious work. It's fine if you freelance in Wordpress or other off the shelf products but if you have any serious work to do then just don't even waste your time with DO as it's solutions are slow, inflexible and, in my professional opinion, immature when compared to other leading cloud providers.
They do, it's just not very good. Each VPS gets one IPv6 address (instead of a /64 block as you might expect), and the address is also not tied to the server if you ever power it down and then up again.
I have snapshots of my Scaleway servers sitting there right now. I've also never experienced any downtime (6 months and counting).
I'm not saying anecdotes are completely without merit, but they don't pair well with rhetoric.