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Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by gmiller123456 »

Been a while since I've tried Vultr, but my experience with them wasn't good. I started one instance, and all went well, decided to get a second one going. The performance on the second instance was horrible, nothing like the first. I occasionally got e-mails stating they were rebooting hardware my instances were on. And after just a few months, the first instance I had refused to boot due to file system errors.

After the performance issue with my second instance, I wrote them off as not being good for anything serious. And after the file system issue, I decided they weren't useful even for anything casual. Hopefully things have changed, but don't assume that just because you've been up and running for a couple months with good performance that things won't fall apart soon.

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by weavie »

snowcrshd wrote: post #109
weavie wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am curious, under what circumstances would cause you to be stuck with companies that accept paypal?

People whose credit cards do not allow international transactions. The first time I used paypal, it was precisely for this reason.

Interesting. I hadn't realised this was a problem.

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by snowcrshd »

snowcrshd wrote: post #110
omegote wrote: post #99

Uhm not cool, I've just registered an account following a promotion that claimed they'd match the credit I added, I've added $10 and boom, no promotional credit whatsoever. Just opened a support ticket to see what's going on...

Same here, I'll open a ticket and see what is going on too.

Just wanted to get back on this: I opened a support ticket on Vultr and they promptly solved the issue by manually matching the credit.

They customer support worked great!

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by floatboth »

tgsovlerkhgsel wrote: post #97
floatboth wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, 2 GB RAM for ~$3 is amazing, while the mentioned Vultr plan is 512MB for $2.5 and DigitalOcean offers 512MB for $5… Sure, these companies have other advantages (e.g. DigitalOcean has very fast storage) but RAM is so damn valuable if you want to run many services, run software builds, etc. Unfortunately Scaleway is Linux-only, they use some networked block storage that's not yet supported on FreeBSD apparently.…

> they use some networked block storage that's not yet supported on FreeBSD apparently This may only apply to their physical offerings, not to the VM-based ones, and you may be able to get it to run using some nasty hacks (possibly involving loading your kernel after booting theirs). Either way, there are no official FreeBSD images so you'd be on your own. Their IPv6 support is indeed lacking (one address, and you lo…

No, they told me this about the VM offerings:

https://github.com/scaleway/image-proposals/issues/11

"FreeBSD on x86_64 (C2S, C2M, C2L, VC1S, VC1M, VC1L) needs an alternative way to store data or an NBD driver for FreeBSD, and more work on the boot system"

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by floatboth »

nopcode wrote: post #104
derefr wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Needs to be mounted from inside the VM I assume? Damn "cloud" stuff. Yeah, that's kind of strange—what kind of SAN product doesn't even expose an iSCSI target for hypervisors to talk to?

Scaleway's lower offerings are not virtual machines. They are small dedicated arm boxes.

That's only one of their offerings. Sure, it's the most famous one, but they've seriously expanded into the amd64 VM market.

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by TheSmiddy »

snowcrshd wrote: post #108

This is pretty nice! Minor rant: for whatever reason, you can't spin up VMs using this $2.50/month plan through their API. Does anyone from Vultr know why? This would be very useful.

You can only have two active at a time so it seems like it's a loss-leading product just to get people through the door

Re: Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan

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Post by TheSmiddy »

BlaXpirit wrote: post #47

Just migrated from the old $5 plan to the new $2.50 plan which even has more SSD space. Unfortunately, that involved copying a snapshot to a new instance, because they don't support "downgrading", though in this particular case there was no technical reason to not support it directly.

I just "downgraded" a legacy $10 instance to a $5 instance, as it now has better specs than what I was using, so they do allow it. It seems the $2.50 plan is a special class (probably loss-leading) and doesn't fully integrate with the rest of their products.
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