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Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan
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#92I 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.
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#93For those Australians using Vultr - are you charged in USD?
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#94I 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 was hosting a project on a vultr VPS and they rebooted my instance more than 4 times in 8 months. Definitely wouldn't recommend them.
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#95I 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 ran https://precursorapp.com on Vultr in the early days. I had a setup with a few dedicated servers for the DB and load balancer, and then I would spin up and shut down application servers whenever I deployed new backend code. Infrastructure looked like: https://precursor.precursorapp.com/document/Backend-Infrastr... I used to recommend it to everybody, but don't any longer. I had two negative experiences that made…
I encountered the same problem with restarts you did, though I only had 4 in ~8 months. They gave no advanced warning and simply notified that my instance had been restarted which was extremely unprofessional to me.
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#96I was running one of my projects on Vultr for a while and didn't appreciate the random restarts with no warning. Ended up using DO for my next project. I hope that DO reduces their prices, right now they're getting destroyed by Vultr and Linode.
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#97The Vultr plan looks like a nice option. For comparison, I recently started using Scaleway for my it's-so-cheap-why-not-try-it box. My Scaleway box's specs: - €2.99/month (currently $3.17 USD/month) - 2 GB RAM - 50 GB SSD storage - 200 Mbits/sec of unmetered bandwidth - data centers in Amsterdam & Paris When I need to take hosting more seriously, I'll reevaluate. Until then, Scaleway is a damn good deal :)
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 lose it if you stop the server).
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#98I'm happy Vultr customer and I can only be happier. I was looking for other providers recently for my personal needs, as I don't need that much resources and there were other providers with less that $5/month prices, but now I'm not looking anywhere. Sweetest thing is hourly pricing. Sometimes I need Paris VPN for few hours. I have some scripts, so I can launch new instance with configured OpenVPN in 2-3 minutes, use…
Do you have to recreate the entire system each time? That's one of the downsides to Digital Ocean for me, you need to pay even when you're not actually running your droplet.
You can spindown Upcloud* instances and you only have to pay for storage (which you actually use) IIRC.
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#99Uhm 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...
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#100For those Australians using Vultr - are you charged in USD?
Yes.