Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan • Hacker News Board

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by ijafri » Sun, Mar 05, 2017, 7:12 PM UTC

ollybee wrote: post #5

There is a limit of 2 * $2.50 instances per account.

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.

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by STRiDEX » Sun, Mar 05, 2017, 7:16 PM UTC

ollybee wrote: post #5

There is a limit of 2 * $2.50 instances per account.

It is a pretty good deal, maybe they'll raise that to 3 since most clusters require 3. I wonder if competition could otherwise spin up a bunch and make their loss leader (if it is a loss leader) into something unsustainable.

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by kejaed » Sun, Mar 05, 2017, 7:21 PM UTC

mrb wrote: post #6

pgtruesdell wrote: post #3

I don't have any experience with Vultr, nor do I know anyone who has. Honestly, I haven't heard of them before. Anyone have experience with them? I'd love to hear about it.

I run my blog on 3 distributed instances, one of them being at Vultr. (The 2 others are DO and Scaleway.) In my experience, all 3 are very reliable: zero downtime since I started using them 8 months ago. Vultr has the nicest dashboard: it uses the noVNC HTML5 client to give you access to the console, it supports 2FA (TOTP) for authentication, etc. They give you $50 of free credit to use in the first 60 days (or did,…

Would you mind sharing the technicalities of splitting requests for your blog across 3 providers? Is the 'load balancing' part done at the DNS level?

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by adiabatty » Sun, Mar 05, 2017, 7:22 PM UTC

Achshar wrote: post #7

I was setting up a test vps there a couple of days ago and made plans to try out the $5 plan with $20 credit they were giving me on a $5 charge. So I had a runway of about 5 months but when I made payment, this $2.50 plan was right there, and it wasn't there before the payment. Now I have 10 month trial period. Never been happier. The dashboard is nice, the ram is a bit low (but the price point is killer), I wasn't a…

> I wasn't able to deploy a lets encrypt cert without pooled memory.

You mean you had to enable swap to run the Let's Encrypt client?

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by nik736 » Sun, Mar 05, 2017, 7:25 PM UTC

Today I published an article where I've benchmarked and reviewed most "simple" cloud hosting providers (Vultr, DO, Linode, Scaleway, OVH):

https://www.webstack.de/blog/e/cloud-hosting-provider-compar...

Edit: I've submitted it as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13798023

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by lugg » Sun, Mar 05, 2017, 7:29 PM UTC

ollybee wrote: post #5

There is a limit of 2 * $2.50 instances per account.

Is there a limit on the $5 plans? because they're still better than DO's.

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by Mordak » Sun, Mar 05, 2017, 7:33 PM UTC

pgtruesdell wrote: post #3

I don't have any experience with Vultr, nor do I know anyone who has. Honestly, I haven't heard of them before. Anyone have experience with them? I'd love to hear about it.

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 DO as well, and am happy with the vultr experience by comparison, so can happily recommend them if you're curious to give them a shot.

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by pgtruesdell » Sun, Mar 05, 2017, 7:34 PM UTC

nik736 wrote: post #15

Today I published an article where I've benchmarked and reviewed most "simple" cloud hosting providers (Vultr, DO, Linode, Scaleway, OVH): https://www.webstack.de/blog/e/cloud-hosting-provider-compar... Edit: I've submitted it as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13798023

That's really impressive, I'll definitely be testing out Vultr for my next project. Great work.

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by hiphopyo » Sun, Mar 05, 2017, 7:35 PM UTC

Big ups to Vultr for doing what DigitalOcean wouldn't do - supporting OpenBSD.

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by laurentdc » Sun, Mar 05, 2017, 7:37 PM UTC

It's nice to see all this competition ($5 Linode, now $2.5 Vultr) but don't they risk overallocaton?

Let's say they have physical machines with 96 GB mem that hold 200 1 GB VMs each, in the hope that no one uses more than half their ram. Same for CPU or disk I/O or whatever resource.

Now that the entry level prices are dropping but the offered resources remains the same, people will spin up more VMs. Doesn't it become dog slow for everyone?