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I use Vultr mainly because it has an AU presence, whereas Linode, DO, Scaleway, OVH, do not.
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'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?
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.
I think, you can snapshot the entire system, then delete server and recreate it from that snapshot later.
But yes, if you're just stopping server, you'll pay for it.
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
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 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.
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?
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…
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
Do you know why AMS is faster than FRA (ping- and speed-wise), although FRA is quite a lot closer to me physically? What was your experience since you are in Germany too?
I remember being on an independent ISP (VDSL reseller), and my neighbor down the street was on the incumbent Cable provider. When I did a traceroute, I discovered my packets were being routed across the country, south, across the country again, and back north, before getting to my neighbor.