Vultr Raises $333M at $3.5B Valuation • Hacker News Board

Re: Vultr Raises $333M at $3.5B Valuation

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Post by b-lee » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 3:56 PM UTC

karmakaze wrote: post #28

My experience with Vultr has been better than with any of the other smaller VM providers. They always seem to provide just a little extra, and don't always nickle and dime you at every opportunity. I originally chose them because they most consistently had the best VM performance/price measured by a third party. The other thing that stands out in that space is that their pricing isn't linear by vCPU and RAM. e.g. lar…

I am considering them, but reviews on Trustpilot are less than favorable. I'm not sure whether or not to trust the site.

https://www.trustpilot.com/review/vultr.com

Re: Vultr Raises $333M at $3.5B Valuation

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Post by moralestapia » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 3:56 PM UTC

neom wrote: post #4

When DigitalOcean got it's a16z money: https://x.com/Vultr/status/489139385154420736

You held this grudge for 10 years, lmao.

Joke aside, 300M for 10% of your company in its only ever funding round is a pretty sweet deal. It made its founder a billionaire "overnight".

He stands at a company with about the same market cap as DO, but private, with full control and very low dilution. I would consider that a win.

Re: Vultr Raises $333M at $3.5B Valuation

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Post by nijave » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 4:00 PM UTC

qoez wrote: post #23

Real nvidia competition will come from innovating in chips, not this thing which is mostly focused on way higher levels (cloud)

Still good to have more competition in the GPU hosting space

Re: Vultr Raises $333M at $3.5B Valuation

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Post by dzonga » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 4:03 PM UTC

gorbypark wrote: post #38

I don't remember the exact details, but I used to have a Vultr VPS (I think the smallest they had, for something like $2.50/month) for a few years running OpenBSD. One day I noticed IPV6 had stopped working, so I emailed support after a while because I wasn't sure if I had broken it during an upgrade a few months before or not (I don't ever really specifically use IPV6). Anyways, got a super detailed reply back from…

and i'm still salty that 2.5 vps is can't be found anymore.

Re: Vultr Raises $333M at $3.5B Valuation

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Post by pocketarc » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 4:04 PM UTC

gorbypark wrote: post #38

I don't remember the exact details, but I used to have a Vultr VPS (I think the smallest they had, for something like $2.50/month) for a few years running OpenBSD. One day I noticed IPV6 had stopped working, so I emailed support after a while because I wasn't sure if I had broken it during an upgrade a few months before or not (I don't ever really specifically use IPV6). Anyways, got a super detailed reply back from…

When people try to cheap out on customer support, this is exactly what they lose, and it's something I always try to bear in mind as I go about things.

By having someone like that replying to emails, they ended up with someone praising them years down the line in a high-profile place, where it'll be seen by countless engineers.

Re: Vultr Raises $333M at $3.5B Valuation

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Post by ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 4:05 PM UTC

runako wrote: post #36

SoloPolo wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> the binary extension is actually hosted on GitFlic.ru Going out on a limb to say that nobody should install this.

You can inflate the xpi file and read/modify the source.

Re: Vultr Raises $333M at $3.5B Valuation

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Post by mrweasel » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 4:07 PM UTC

nikanj wrote: post #35

mrweasel wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're not even a startup, the company is 10 years old. The investment does make some sense from AMD perspective though. They need people to be able to access their GPUs, on a rental basis. They can't really throw enough money at AWS, GCP or Azure to make a difference, but Vultr is a trusted VPS provider, where AMD can buy a lot of influence for a realistic amount of money. I do find it interesting that Vultr has su…

The company is not 10 years old, they loudly declare they've bootstrapped since 1996 https://x.com/Vultr/status/489139385154420736

That makes more sense to me, because I remember have looked at their offerings earlier as they where one of the only places you could run OpenBSD. So I was a little surprised to see 2014 on their websites, but figured I just remembered wrong.

Re: Vultr Raises $333M at $3.5B Valuation

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Post by zie » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 4:08 PM UTC

b-lee wrote: post #41

karmakaze wrote: post #28

My experience with Vultr has been better than with any of the other smaller VM providers. They always seem to provide just a little extra, and don't always nickle and dime you at every opportunity. I originally chose them because they most consistently had the best VM performance/price measured by a third party. The other thing that stands out in that space is that their pricing isn't linear by vCPU and RAM. e.g. lar…

I am considering them, but reviews on Trustpilot are less than favorable. I'm not sure whether or not to trust the site. https://www.trustpilot.com/review/vultr.com

I've been happy enough over the last 5+ years, but I'm not a huge user and I've only ever interacted with their support once many years ago, and it was fine.

No complaints.

Re: Vultr Raises $333M at $3.5B Valuation

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Post by rmorey » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 4:09 PM UTC

bauruine wrote: post #22

nickdothutton wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Upon further digging there is a parent LLC[1] which I presume is the one predating the Vultr entity. [1]ClanServers Hosting LLC

They where using the brand Choopa before vultr which was a thing since at least 2001. [0] EDIT: News about their brand consolidation [1] [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20010405033628/http://choopa.com... [1]: https://www.constant.com/transition-to-vultr/

You seem to be getting downvoted, but as a former Vultr employee I can confirm this is correct

Re: Vultr Raises $333M at $3.5B Valuation

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Post by kyleblarson » Wed, Dec 18, 2024, 4:17 PM UTC

leetrout wrote: post #3

"Cloud AI Startup Vultr" We really have let this go too far when a mid tier VPS provider is now a "cloud AI startup".

Journalists learn a new phrase that sounds techy / flashy and beat it to death. Watch CNBC for 5 minutes and you will see their "experts" use the phrase "hyper scalers" at least 5 times.