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Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by jwilk »

d0100 wrote: post #59
amorphid wrote: post #31

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 am unfortunately stuck with companies that accept PayPal. Scaleway was one that I checked out first, but no PayPal support.

DigitalOcean accepts PayPal.

Does anybody else?

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by floatboth »

amorphid wrote: post #31

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 :)

Yeah, 2 GB RAM for ~$3 is amazing, while the mentioned Vultr plan is 512MB for $2.5 and DigitalOcean offers 512MB for $5… Sure, these companies have other advantages (e.g. DigitalOcean has very fast storage) but RAM is so damn valuable if you want to run many services, run software builds, etc.

Unfortunately Scaleway is Linux-only, they use some networked block storage that's not yet supported on FreeBSD apparently. (Needs to be mounted from inside the VM I assume? Damn "cloud" stuff.) Scaleway also used to have no IPv6, I think this might have been resolved though (but one address only IIRC? no /64?)

prgmr is my current choice for personal stuff — 1.25 GB is not as good as 2 GB, but they offer normal Xen VMs with full access — install anything you want. Also the good feeling of supporting a small team of sysadmins instead of a big corporation (esp. vs Amazon/Google, not so much with the other small hosters). The only downside is that they only have US servers, nothing in Europe.

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by jrowley »

vbezhenar wrote: post #26

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…

I'm curious why you'd need a specific VPN for a few hours? Get around streaming restrictions?

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by floatboth »

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…

Good providers never overallocate RAM and disk, only CPU.

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by jrowley »

jlgaddis wrote: post #55
superasn wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Why not just get a couple of bigger instances and run all your sites on them?

dev ops is hard!

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by h4waii »

cknight wrote: post #24
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.

Snapshot your current running instance and create a new $2.50/month server using that snapshot.

Works fine, I just moved a site from $5 to $2.50 without issues.

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by superasn »

jlgaddis wrote: post #55
superasn wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Why not just get a couple of bigger instances and run all your sites on them?

There are many reasons but a few from the top of my head are:

1) The whole system is running on Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk (via Docker). Beanstalk provisions 3 instances for every site (1 Web, 1 Worker/cron, and 1 RDS) for every app with ELB on front.

2) It makes installing updates easy and automatic using deployment scripts which we have on every site.

3) Everything (web/cron/database) is configured to scale up and down automatically, i.e. new servers start as per demand. This may not be possible otherwise.

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by weavie »

d0100 wrote: post #59
amorphid wrote: post #31

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 am unfortunately stuck with companies that accept PayPal. Scaleway was one that I checked out first, but no PayPal support.

I am curious, under what circumstances would cause you to be stuck with companies that accept paypal?

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by ttd »

AtheistOfFail wrote: post #50
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…

Linode, DigitalOcean and Vultr actually bill whether the VM is on or off and they lock your RAM to your VM so overallocation doesn't happen.

I don't think this is true for DigitalOcean. I believe you have to destroy your VM ("droplet") in order to stop being charged. If it's just powered off, you're still billed for it. You can take a snapshot, destroy the droplet, and restore the snapshot later, but there is a small monthly charge for storing snapshot images as well.

edit: The DO FAQ (https://www.digitalocean.com/help/pricing-and-billing/genera...) says:

"Am I charged while my Droplet is in a powered-off state?

Yes. Your diskspace, CPU, RAM, and IP address are all reserved while your Droplet is powered off. If you want to save a Droplet for future use take a snapshot of it and then destroy it. You'll be able to create a new Droplet from the snapshot image anytime to bring it back online."

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