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I wondered if it would even be worth considering. I'm glad this comparison is out there; I'll stick with Vultr for VPS, and my own bare metal when I need more p

I wondered if it would even be worth considering. I'm glad this comparison is out there; I'll stick with Vultr for VPS, and my own bare metal when I need more power/storage.

tra3 10y ago
I have mixed feeling about Vultr. I dont like the "we've restarted your instance because hardware was having issues". Lately, the performance on some of my instances has degraded significantly. This was resolved by moving to a different zone. I dont expect a $5 VPS to be speedy, but there's minim performance that I expect. I wouldn't necessarily steer anyone away from Vultr, but I would recommend a thorough investigation of options.
- morganvachon 10y ago
  Hmm, I've never experienced that on any of my instances, apart from the Minecraft server that I run for my niece and her friends. It got overloaded once when a bunch of players signed on at the same time, and I just bumped up to the next highest slot. That was my fault, since I was cheaping out trying to run it at the $5 tier; Minecraft is a memory hog even if you tweak the settings. Anecdotal, of course. I have had serious performance issues at Digital Ocean, which is one reason I moved away from them and to Vultr (the main reason being Vultr's support for uploading your own custom ISO; OpenBSD in the cloud is cool). One example of many: I ran a custom website on DO for a client for a couple of years, but it was constantly going down despite the logs showing no significant traffic spikes and no Apache or PHP errors. I moved it to a shared hosting plan with my reseller provider and it has been up 100% since, not counting planned downtime. All of that said, if I ever start experiencing the issues you're describing, I'll move on in a heartbeat. I don't do anything mission critical on Vultr, it's mostly for testbed stuff and that Minecraft server, nothing I can't move to another provider with ease.

I wondered if it would even be worth considering. I'm glad this comparison is out there; I'll stick with Vultr for VPS, and my own bare metal when I need more power/storage.

tra3 10y ago

I have mixed feeling about Vultr. I dont like the "we've restarted your instance because hardware was having issues". Lately, the performance on some of my instances has degraded significantly. This was resolved by moving to a different zone. I dont expect a $5 VPS to be speedy, but there's minim performance that I expect. I wouldn't necessarily steer anyone away from Vultr, but I would recommend a thorough investigation of options.

morganvachon 10y ago
Hmm, I've never experienced that on any of my instances, apart from the Minecraft server that I run for my niece and her friends. It got overloaded once when a bunch of players signed on at the same time, and I just bumped up to the next highest slot. That was my fault, since I was cheaping out trying to run it at the $5 tier; Minecraft is a memory hog even if you tweak the settings. Anecdotal, of course. I have had serious performance issues at Digital Ocean, which is one reason I moved away from them and to Vultr (the main reason being Vultr's support for uploading your own custom ISO; OpenBSD in the cloud is cool). One example of many: I ran a custom website on DO for a client for a couple of years, but it was constantly going down despite the logs showing no significant traffic spikes and no Apache or PHP errors. I moved it to a shared hosting plan with my reseller provider and it has been up 100% since, not counting planned downtime. All of that said, if I ever start experiencing the issues you're describing, I'll move on in a heartbeat. I don't do anything mission critical on Vultr, it's mostly for testbed stuff and that Minecraft server, nothing I can't move to another provider with ease.