Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan • Hacker News Board

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by TomMarius » Mon, Mar 06, 2017, 8:02 AM UTC

mjevans wrote: post #52

ijafri wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

However that does sound production level, easily surpassing it even, for a small business or organizational website. There's even enough ram and storage for a light database.

I used to run a Debian 5 server with full-blown LAMP stack and it was enough even for larger sites. Today, the latest version will just say "out of memory" while installing packages. :/

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by locusm » Mon, Mar 06, 2017, 11:23 AM UTC

Aeyris wrote: post #100

locusm wrote: post #93

For those Australians using Vultr - are you charged in USD?

Yes.

Thanks, sticking with BinaryLane then...

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by hyperknot » Mon, Mar 06, 2017, 12:00 PM UTC

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?

OVH does.

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by nopcode » Mon, Mar 06, 2017, 12:09 PM UTC

derefr wrote: post #71

floatboth wrote: post #62

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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?

Scaleway's lower offerings are not virtual machines. They are small dedicated arm boxes.

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by retox » Mon, Mar 06, 2017, 1:33 PM UTC

omegote wrote: post #99

Uhm not cool, I've just registered an account following a promotion that claimed they'd match the credit I added, I've added $10 and boom, no promotional credit whatsoever. Just opened a support ticket to see what's going on...

I signed up using that offer, $25 matched. It was obvious at every step of the sign-up what was happening with regard to the matching. Either you had the page cached or they screwed up, but worth getting in touch they are very responsive which is refreshing for a cheapo host.

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by NoirDesir » Mon, Mar 06, 2017, 4:24 PM UTC

jrowley wrote: post #63

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?

I occasionally start a VPS for a few hours to download stuff using OpenVPN AS... Living in France under constant phobia of HADOPI law :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HADOPI_law

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 06, 2017, 6:29 PM UTC

hiphopyo wrote: post #23

Mordak wrote: post #17

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I've been running on vultr $5/mo boxes for years now. No complaints - the boxes are snappy and the web UI/dashboard is nice. I originally picked them because they supported FreeBSD out of the box, and let you upload your own ISO to boot from if you want to run something else (like OpenBSD). I've only ever had one interaction with their support staff, and the service was prompt and professional. I've been on AWS and D…

They just recently started supporting OpenBSD officially as well. I immediately switched. This way I wouldn't have to deal with the generally more messy and weaker[1] OS that is FreeBSD, nor would I have to use old pf syntax. [1] "Theo De Raadt Says FreeBSD Is Just Catching Up On Security": https://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/12/16/0121213/theo-de-raa...

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Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by snowcrshd » Mon, Mar 06, 2017, 7:51 PM UTC

This is pretty nice!

Minor rant: for whatever reason, you can't spin up VMs using this $2.50/month plan through their API.

Does anyone from Vultr know why? This would be very useful.

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by snowcrshd » Mon, Mar 06, 2017, 7:55 PM UTC

weavie wrote: post #69

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.

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

People whose credit cards do not allow international transactions. The first time I used paypal, it was precisely for this reason.

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by snowcrshd » Mon, Mar 06, 2017, 8:00 PM UTC

omegote wrote: post #99

Uhm not cool, I've just registered an account following a promotion that claimed they'd match the credit I added, I've added $10 and boom, no promotional credit whatsoever. Just opened a support ticket to see what's going on...

Same here, I'll open a ticket and see what is going on too.