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Vultr Raises $333M at $3.5B Valuation

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

#61
I was a happy Vultr customer until the day I tried to get port 25 unblocked. Instead of getting it unblocked I received a ”sorry not sorry” copy paste from some senior sales guy.

I had spent thousands of dollars on their services running my servers for years.

Needless to say I immediately dumped them, moved to Hetzner and 1 week later I had my own mail server running(still do).

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

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post #32
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"Cloud AI Startup Vultr" We really have let this go too far when a mid tier VPS provider is now a "cloud AI startup".

Wait until you find out that MinIO, the S3 compatible storage company, is apparently an AI company through and through now. https://min.io/ > the AI revolution is powered by technologies that are either built on MinIO or integrated with it.

Yeah I noticed that also. And it also left me wondering how an S3 you can host yourself is “””””””AI””””””.

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

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post #61

I was a happy Vultr customer until the day I tried to get port 25 unblocked. Instead of getting it unblocked I received a ”sorry not sorry” copy paste from some senior sales guy. I had spent thousands of dollars on their services running my servers for years. Needless to say I immediately dumped them, moved to Hetzner and 1 week later I had my own mail server running(still do).

I tested them out maybe like 7-9 years ago and that's the reason I didn't continue. 25 blocked by default. Just left a bad taste in my mouth. I mean sure they are trying to discourage spammers but just outright blocked by default seemed a bit overboard to me

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

#64

I use Vultr for a BGP anycast CDN (they let you bring your own ips) and they're overall excellent. They also have budget GPU VPSes that are perfect for webgl screenshotting via chrome headless. Their sales rep gave me a 10% discount and we're not even slightly in their high volume category. Extremely underrated VPS provider IMO, I've had better results with them than DO. I hope this development does not change things…

I searched for a provider that would let me do BGP on a VPS and found Vultr. Their network is solid with tons of peers, low latency, high bandwidth to my location. My brief interaction with their support was very smooth.

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

#65
When they announced Bare Metal I was hoping it was closer to Hetzner, basically old fashion dedicated server.

AMD EPYC™ 9454P 48 Core / 96 Threads, + 128 GB DDR5 ECC + 3.84 TB NVMe SSD for $221 and a $88 one time set up fee on Hetzner. Even if they could do it at $100 more expensive at $321 would still have been good enough.

But their Cloud / VPS offering are still very good. Now that Linode is nearly gone. DO is mostly Intel based. Vultr is mostly AMD. The other one that is close if not better is UpCloud.

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

#66
post #61

I was a happy Vultr customer until the day I tried to get port 25 unblocked. Instead of getting it unblocked I received a ”sorry not sorry” copy paste from some senior sales guy. I had spent thousands of dollars on their services running my servers for years. Needless to say I immediately dumped them, moved to Hetzner and 1 week later I had my own mail server running(still do).

I tested them out maybe like 7-9 years ago and that's the reason I didn't continue. 25 blocked by default. Just left a bad taste in my mouth. I mean sure they are trying to discourage spammers but just outright blocked by default seemed a bit overboard to me

That’s pretty well standard for VPS providers at this point isn’t it?

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

#67
post #41

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

Read the ratings/comments on the first page and it looks like one-off case complaints, though I have nothing to back that up than my experience. I've been using them 6+ years and their systems have just worked as advertised and never needed to contact their support. I've had overdue bills which I've paid maybe a month later and it was never a problem--never got any threats to suspend service or anything.

Perhaps they act quickly on DMCA reports, so if you're in a gray area don't use them?

I was just curious what kind of promotions they have and saw this one for $300 in credits and $100 free trial[0].

[0] https://sites.google.com/site/vultrfreecredit

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

#68
post #61

I was a happy Vultr customer until the day I tried to get port 25 unblocked. Instead of getting it unblocked I received a ”sorry not sorry” copy paste from some senior sales guy. I had spent thousands of dollars on their services running my servers for years. Needless to say I immediately dumped them, moved to Hetzner and 1 week later I had my own mail server running(still do).

I tested them out maybe like 7-9 years ago and that's the reason I didn't continue. 25 blocked by default. Just left a bad taste in my mouth. I mean sure they are trying to discourage spammers but just outright blocked by default seemed a bit overboard to me

Lesson here is always be transparent about your product. If you're permanently blocking ports by default, put some emphasis on that limitation during the sales process.

Maybe they did a risk analysis. Maybe they don't have the bandwidth to create a vetting process. Either way, be transparent.

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

#69

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/

Good old memories working in the adult industry

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

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post #41

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 run 5$ vps for years with them

mostly works, there's maybe a "restart" once a year due to hardware problems

all handled transparently without you intervention

support is responsive enough

for personal use works perfect

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from a business account with many servers expecting higher reliability sometimes they don't correspond and have too many maintenance windows with _guaranteed_ downtiem

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