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My Scaleway box's specs:
- €2.99/month (currently $3.17 USD/month)
- 2 GB RAM
- 50 GB SSD storage
- 200 Mbits/sec of unmetered bandwidth
- data centers in Amsterdam & Paris
When I need to take hosting more seriously, I'll reevaluate. Until then, Scaleway is a damn good deal :)
Today I published an article where I've benchmarked and reviewed most "simple" cloud hosting providers (Vultr, DO, Linode, Scaleway, OVH): https://www.webstack.de/blog/e/cloud-hosting-provider-compar... Edit: I've submitted it as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13798023
Today I published an article where I've benchmarked and reviewed most "simple" cloud hosting providers (Vultr, DO, Linode, Scaleway, OVH): https://www.webstack.de/blog/e/cloud-hosting-provider-compar... Edit: I've submitted it as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13798023
Your numbers match the numbers on vpsbenchmarks.com [1], so it probably is as bad as your test suggests.
[1] https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/trials/ovh_performance_trial_1...
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 dele…
This is why I am baffled as to why the CC companies eliminated the transient number technology, which was pefect for e-commerce vendors like this. At least with those, after 3-6-12 months the number expires and no damage done when the vendor is hacked. I assume it was dropped because this technology complicated data mining.
Today I published an article where I've benchmarked and reviewed most "simple" cloud hosting providers (Vultr, DO, Linode, Scaleway, OVH): https://www.webstack.de/blog/e/cloud-hosting-provider-compar... Edit: I've submitted it as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13798023
> We are really surprised how bad OVH does in this benchmark, they claim to have local RAID 10 storage, so it could be that they are throttling, since we can't imagine that there are that many "noisy neighbors" in two locations, but we can't say that for sure. Your numbers match the numbers on vpsbenchmarks.com [1], so it probably is as bad as your test suggests. [1] https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/trials/ovh_performan…
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 used to recommend it to everybody, but don't any longer. I had two negative experiences that made me stop recommending it.
The first is frequent restarts. Very small sample size, but both me and a friend started experiencing restarts every month or so. I don't think I got any advance warning about the restarts, but I'm not positive.
The second is that networking between instances stopped working for me in the middle of the night shortly after Vultr did an upgrade. Support wasn't able to help (though they did try) and I couldn't figure out anything on my end. I had to switch everything to AWS to get the site back online before people woke up in the morning.
I was super happy with it before those two problems, though, and the people there seemed competent and professional. I was also using FreeBSD, so it may not be as well supported as Linux (which may have contributed to the networking problem).
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I run my blog on 3 distributed instances, one of them being at Vultr. (The 2 others are DO and Scaleway.) In my experience, all 3 are very reliable: zero downtime since I started using them 8 months ago. Vultr has the nicest dashboard: it uses the noVNC HTML5 client to give you access to the console, it supports 2FA (TOTP) for authentication, etc. They give you $50 of free credit to use in the first 60 days (or did,…
Would you mind sharing the technicalities of splitting requests for your blog across 3 providers? Is the 'load balancing' part done at the DNS level?
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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 dele…
This pattern can be recommended so long as there is no liability for financial information disclosure. When you're hacked and a customer who closed their account 2 years ago has their CC info used for fraudulent transactions, you just trollface and move on. This is why I am baffled as to why the CC companies eliminated the transient number technology, which was pefect for e-commerce vendors like this. At least with t…
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