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Are they bigger than DigitalOcean? DigitalOcean is also currently valued at 3.5 billion right now, does ~800m ARR, 125m FCF, and profitable. Anyone know how Vultr compares to this?
"Cloud AI Startup Vultr" We really have let this go too far when a mid tier VPS provider is now a "cloud AI startup".
In all fairness, Vultr was the first hosting company to offering fractional GPUs - and they gained a lot of traction with indie developers as a result of it. Not sure if this was their first GPU offering, but they have been doing it for 2.5+ years (at minimum) https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220524005336/en/Int...
Having spent a bunch of time talking in person with the Vultr team, they are a great group of people.
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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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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.
> You held this grudge for 10 years, lmao. ~18 years ago I owned a Belkin router that would hijack on the order of 1/10000th of plain http requests and send them to a belkin.com domain to try to get people to buy more Belkin products. I have not bought another Belkin product since.
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
How would you go about discouraging spammers, if not using a block that is removed if you ask?
(They removed my block in the first 2 months of my service, all I did was ask)
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
Vultr is great!
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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.
ngl I def feel a bit smug getting to pull that one out... but they used to tweet and delete mean shit at me all the time, heh. I feel like Joyent has more reason to hate me than Vultr, I never bothered Vultr!!!! :) Yeah, jokes aside I think David Aninowsky is a super smart guy, I actually quite like him. Funnily enough, I'd even emailed them a couple years ago to pitch them letting me build this VERY idea for them, n…
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.
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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.
Can you access other Vultr customers hosted nearby when originating from your announced network? They seem to have an issue at least in FRA.