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Vultr Raises $333M at $3.5B Valuation

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

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Post by extraduder_ire »

Gud wrote: 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).

That's odd. I had a single HDD vps for a few months, back when they offered those, and they immediately unblocked port 25 when I asked them via a support ticket. At the time I had expected more pushback about it, or clarifying questions. I kept using that same server for many years until they stopped offering that tier of server and force stopped it many years later.

The replacement vps I'm currently using still has the port blocked because I haven't felt the need to send email like that in quite a while.

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

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Post by rurp »

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…

That's awesome and reminds me of a similar experience I had with Schwab some years ago. I contacted support with a question from an account with a paltry amount of money in it and got back a very detailed and helpful response. My account value to them was probably similar to your $2.50/month VPS account so I was blown away at the quality of the response. I have stuck with the company for years and recommended them multiple times.

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Post by wut42 »

nickdothutton wrote: post #24
wut42 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it was Choopa before being Vultr. They had other brands. Current holding has renamed to "The Constant Company" or something.

All of this just makes me suspicious, perhaps unnecessarily so. I'm old enough to remember ENRON stashing a load of debt in their various "Raptor" LLCs before the final implosion.

I get you! In this case it was mostly legitimate. Each brand had a segment; just like Vultr had the cloud segment. It only ate the other ones.

I don't see why Constant exist now tho that it's all Vultr.

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

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Post by m1n7 »

karmakaze wrote: post #67
b-lee wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

the links on the site are all just the same ref-link, is this spam?

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Post by TheFreim »

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 using Vultr for many years without issue. Currently I have a $5 VPS that has been running for nearly two years straight without any downtime.

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

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Post by indigodaddy »

rstupek wrote: post #66
indigodaddy wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

no, it isn't as far as I'm aware

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

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Post by njt »

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 running VPSs with them for the last 9 years. Never had a problem. And unlike Digital Ocean, they allow you to mount your own ISOs and fully support the BSDs.

Unless someone buys them out in the future and platform decay[1] happens, you can trust them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

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Post by hgs3 »

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 using Vultr for the past 6-ish months and I've been happy with them. They have great prices for what you get. Sadly, I feel that review sites often skew negative because I think people are more motivated to find time to share a negative experience than a positive one.

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

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Post by mgkimsal »

everfrustrated wrote: post #55
mgkimsal wrote: post #14

I've started testing with vultr some because they offer affordable fractional GPUs. I think I had something running for about $60/month with a 'real' GPU. 1/24th a GPU, IIRC, but... better than nothing. DO and linode offer GPU service, but the minimal cost just to get something up is significantly more.

Fractional as in SR-IOV?

I don't know what that is.
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