Today I published an article where I've benchmarked and reviewed most "simple" cloud hosting providers (Vultr, DO, Linode, Scaleway, OVH):<p><a href="https://www.webstack.de/blog/e/cloud-hosting-provider-comparison-2017/" rel="nofollow">https://www.webstack.de/blog/e/cloud-hosting-provider-compar...</a><p>Edit: I've submitted it as well:
<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13798023" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13798023</a>
I'm happy Vultr customer and I can only be happier. I was looking for other providers recently for my personal needs, as I don't need that much resources and there were other providers with less that $5/month prices, but now I'm not looking anywhere.<p>Sweetest thing is hourly pricing. Sometimes I need Paris VPN for few hours. I have some scripts, so I can launch new instance with configured OpenVPN in 2-3 minutes, use it, then dispose and I would pay only few cents. Impressive, if you ask me. That's what cloud is for.<p>Network speeds are quite good, vultr has lots of features (want to install OpenBSD from your own ISO via web 2.0 KVM, no applet nonsense? Or Windows XP? No problem at all), and prices are just so low now. Also IPv6 works fine. I don't know about their support, I never had to contact them yet, but otherwise it's awesome service.
The Vultr plan looks like a nice option. For comparison, I recently started using Scaleway for my it's-so-cheap-why-not-try-it box.<p>My Scaleway box's specs:<p>- €2.99/month (currently $3.17 USD/month)<p>- 2 GB RAM<p>- 50 GB SSD storage<p>- 200 Mbits/sec of unmetered bandwidth<p>- data centers in Amsterdam & Paris<p>When I need to take hosting more seriously, I'll reevaluate. Until then, Scaleway is a damn good deal :)
I don't have any experience with Vultr, nor do I know anyone who has. Honestly, I haven't heard of them before.<p>Anyone have experience with them? I'd love to hear about it.
Best thing about Vultr is that you can bring your own IP blocks and have their BGP servers announce them.<p>The bandwidth overage is also pretty okay. ($10/TB in NA/EU, $25/TB in AS, and $50/TB in AU.)
I'm using similar plan from Ramnode as a sandbox for 2 years already and very happy about it. Ramnode is a highly underrated hosting provider but it has the outstanding support and great features/speed/reliability. I'm not using it for production though.
I've heard somewhere that Vultr retains your stored credit card indefinitely (even after you close your account). It sounds a bit weird, that's why I avoided their services. Can someone confirm this?
I was setting up a test vps there a couple of days ago and made plans to try out the $5 plan with $20 credit they were giving me on a $5 charge. So I had a runway of about 5 months but when I made payment, this $2.50 plan was right there, and it wasn't there before the payment. Now I have 10 month trial period. Never been happier.<p>The dashboard is nice, the ram is a bit low (but the price point is killer), I wasn't able to deploy a lets encrypt cert without pooled memory. The service seems to be excellenct in the few days I've used it. It doesn't seem to have a "don't ask for 2FA on this device for n months" option but it's a small complaint.
Been a while since I've tried Vultr, but my experience with them wasn't good. I started one instance, and all went well, decided to get a second one going. The performance on the second instance was horrible, nothing like the first. I occasionally got e-mails stating they were rebooting hardware my instances were on. And after just a few months, the first instance I had refused to boot due to file system errors.<p>After the performance issue with my second instance, I wrote them off as not being good for anything serious. And after the file system issue, I decided they weren't useful even for anything casual. Hopefully things have changed, but don't assume that just because you've been up and running for a couple months with good performance that things won't fall apart soon.
I recently switched to Vultr from a DigitalOcean and Compose.io setup.<p>Compose is nice for backups and replicas but they drop the connection like all the time and then the replicas start playing who wants to be master. Which brought downtime to my application at times. Also there expensive so I said f that and manage a Mongo instance myself. Since it was a small project that had to much overhead.<p>I moved from DO was primarily pricing and the lack of data centers.<p>Vultr's Miami DC is my jam since I'm in Tampa. Atlanta is nice too.<p>So far I really like Vultr. 2GB for $10!
Just migrated from the old $5 plan to the new $2.50 plan which even has more SSD space. Unfortunately, that involved copying a snapshot to a new instance, because they don't support "downgrading", though in this particular case there was no technical reason to not support it directly.
I was running one of my projects on Vultr for a while and didn't appreciate the random restarts with no warning. Ended up using DO for my next project. I hope that DO reduces their prices, right now they're getting destroyed by Vultr and Linode.
Uhm not cool, I've just registered an account following a promotion that claimed they'd match the credit I added, I've added $10 and boom, no promotional credit whatsoever. Just opened a support ticket to see what's going on...
This is pretty nice!<p>Minor rant: for whatever reason, you can't spin up VMs using this $2.50/month plan through their API.<p>Does anyone from Vultr know why? This would be <i>very</i> useful.
It's nice to see all this competition ($5 Linode, now $2.5 Vultr) but don't they risk overallocaton?<p>Let's say they have physical machines with 96 GB mem that hold 200 1 GB VMs each, in the hope that no one uses more than half their ram. Same for CPU or disk I/O or whatever resource.<p>Now that the entry level prices are dropping but the offered resources remains the same, people will spin up more VMs. Doesn't it become dog slow for everyone?