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According to their site you need to either link a credit card or add 5$ credit via paypal in order to use bitcoin "Account must be funded by credit card or PayPal before making a Bitcoin deposit."
That is quite possibly the most stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard in my life.
There is a limit of 2 * $2.50 instances per account.
you barely can blame them. >Our most affordable way to try out cloud computing, this plan features 512MB RAM and 20GB SSD disk storage. This is perfect for test-driving your next application before upgrading to production level specifications.
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.
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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…
Note that in the case of Stripe, the site doesn't hold onto "financial information" per se - they hold onto tokens where Stripe is the holder of the information, and they can't access the card number or CVV after it's been sent to Stripe - so all fraudulent transactions would have to be requested through that Stripe account.
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I ran https://precursorapp.com on Vultr in the early days. I had a setup with a few dedicated servers for the DB and load balancer, and then I would spin up and shut down application servers whenever I deployed new backend code. Infrastructure looked like: https://precursor.precursorapp.com/document/Backend-Infrastr... I used to recommend it to everybody, but don't any longer. I had two negative experiences that made…
Thanks for this comment. I was about tell my team to investigate Vultr as an option for our next website, but I guess we'll first do some more research into this. We're still on AWS too. Currently spending about $50 / site which adds up quite quickly when you have 20+ sites. Our current breakup is something like (2 x t2.micro - one for website, one for cron created using Elastic Beanstalk, 1 x db.t2.micro for RDS + E…
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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…
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. 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 :)
I guess I'm interested in what other costs beyond the monthly keep-it-alive fee can come up with this tier of hosting
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. 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 :)
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 ran https://precursorapp.com on Vultr in the early days. I had a setup with a few dedicated servers for the DB and load balancer, and then I would spin up and shut down application servers whenever I deployed new backend code. Infrastructure looked like: https://precursor.precursorapp.com/document/Backend-Infrastr... I used to recommend it to everybody, but don't any longer. I had two negative experiences that made…