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Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Mordak wrote: post #17
pgtruesdell wrote: post #3

I don't have any experience with Vultr, nor do I know anyone who has. Honestly, I haven't heard of them before. Anyone have experience with them? I'd love to hear about it.

I've been running on vultr $5/mo boxes for years now. No complaints - the boxes are snappy and the web UI/dashboard is nice. I originally picked them because they supported FreeBSD out of the box, and let you upload your own ISO to boot from if you want to run something else (like OpenBSD). I've only ever had one interaction with their support staff, and the service was prompt and professional. I've been on AWS and D…

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Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by hiphopyo »

Mordak wrote: post #17
pgtruesdell wrote: post #3

I don't have any experience with Vultr, nor do I know anyone who has. Honestly, I haven't heard of them before. Anyone have experience with them? I'd love to hear about it.

I've been running on vultr $5/mo boxes for years now. No complaints - the boxes are snappy and the web UI/dashboard is nice. I originally picked them because they supported FreeBSD out of the box, and let you upload your own ISO to boot from if you want to run something else (like OpenBSD). I've only ever had one interaction with their support staff, and the service was prompt and professional. I've been on AWS and D…

They just recently started supporting OpenBSD officially as well.

I immediately switched. This way I wouldn't have to deal with the generally more messy and weaker[1] OS that is FreeBSD, nor would I have to use old pf syntax.

[1] "Theo De Raadt Says FreeBSD Is Just Catching Up On Security": https://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/12/16/0121213/theo-de-raa...

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by cknight »

pgtruesdell wrote: post #3

I don't have any experience with Vultr, nor do I know anyone who has. Honestly, I haven't heard of them before. Anyone have experience with them? I'd love to hear about it.

I've just had one small $5 VPS with them for about a year now. No downtime, no complaints. Since my needs are so basic I think I could probably get away with one of these $2.50 offerings, however the problem - and it's the only problem I've run in to with Vultr so far - is that downgrading VPS plans isn't possible. You can only go up.

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by pfg »

adiabatty wrote: post #14
Achshar wrote: post #7

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. The dashboard is nice, the ram is a bit low (but the price point is killer), I wasn't a…

> I wasn't able to deploy a lets encrypt cert without pooled memory. You mean you had to enable swap to run the Let's Encrypt client?

If you use certbot-auto to install the client, part of the installation process involves compiling some crypto library (IIRC) which tends to fail on low-memory systems, hence the need for swap.

Packaged versions of certbot (from your distribution's package manager) don't suffer from that problem and have fairly low memory requirements.

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Post by vbezhenar »

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.

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.

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.

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Post by Zekio »

apeacox wrote: post #22

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?

They do accept paypal and bitcoin, if you don't want to give them your credit card information

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by nodesocket »

apeacox wrote: post #22

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?

Believe it or not this is actually very common. In fact a lot of people who integrate Stripe recommend this pattern. They recommend to never delete customers and cards in Stripe, instead just remove the subscription from the customer.

The idea is, if the customer wants to come back and reactivate service they don't have to provide billing details again.

I don't do this though. When customers cancel my startup, I delete the card and cancel the subscription in Stripe but leave the customer.

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by vbezhenar »

laurentdc wrote: post #20

It's nice to see all this competition ($5 Linode, now $2.5 Vultr) but don't they risk overallocaton? 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. Now that the entry level prices are dropping but the offered resources remains the same, people will spin up more VMs. Doesn't it becom…

Well, they should've planned for it. In my experience their VMs were quite good, I never felt much contention. But it's VPS, of course, you can never be sure.

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by nik736 »

laurentdc wrote: post #20

It's nice to see all this competition ($5 Linode, now $2.5 Vultr) but don't they risk overallocaton? 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. Now that the entry level prices are dropping but the offered resources remains the same, people will spin up more VMs. Doesn't it becom…

No, it's not working like that. They use KVM, it's not like with OpenVZ/LXC where you can put unlimited VMs on a host system.
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