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Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by derefr »

floatboth wrote: post #62
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.

Yeah, that's kind of strange—what kind of SAN product doesn't even expose an iSCSI target for hypervisors to talk to?

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by hinfaits »

digikata wrote: post #57
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 :)

So when you try out one of these hosts do you worry about bandwidth overages? Or are the options to manage or cut off the instance if it goes over. I guess I'm interested in what other costs beyond the monthly keep-it-alive fee can come up with this tier of hosting

DigitalOcean's payment model is great for this. What you see is what you get without small charges or other fees. I vaguely remember Lightsail's release being met with poor feedback on HN because they really missed part of what makes DO by complicating the payment model.

Currently DO does not charge for network overages. I guess they would suspend your node for going way over the prescribed limits.

I'm not affiliated with DO, but I just really like the service.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/extra-bandw...

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by patrickg_zill »

nik736 wrote: post #30
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.

KVM has KSM, so there is definitely the possibility of having say, 150x 1GB VMs on a 128GB physical RAM server; possibly much more than that depending how much KVM/KSM has improved since I last looked at it.

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by bostonvaulter2 »

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…

Do you have to recreate the entire system each time? That's one of the downsides to Digital Ocean for me, you need to pay even when you're not actually running your droplet.

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by ehPReth »

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 saw this a while ago: https://storify.com/phoul/vultr-tampering. Unsure what to make of it really but it's made me somewhat wary of Vultr.

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Post by Mordak »

jwilk wrote: post #61
d0100 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

vultr takes paypal - it's the only way I've ever paid them.

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by crisopolis »

I recently switched to Vultr from a DigitalOcean and Compose.io setup.

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.

I moved from DO was primarily pricing and the lack of data centers.

Vultr's Miami DC is my jam since I'm in Tampa. Atlanta is nice too.

So far I really like Vultr. 2GB for $10!

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by Laforet »

bostonvaulter2 wrote: post #74
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…

Do you have to recreate the entire system each time? That's one of the downsides to Digital Ocean for me, you need to pay even when you're not actually running your droplet.

There might be better ways to do this but each new instance on vultr takes a few minutes to set up (you can actually use their web VNC console to watch their install script run，a unique experience not offered by other VPS providers I have used) and then you can restore old config from a snapshot which takes a bit more time but it is pretty fast overall.

There are options to load your own distro image and init scripts but I have not tried them since most things I need in a transient instance can be installed by following a simple bash script calling apt.

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