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I guess they are also price matching Vultr, a company missing from the TechCrunch article. I switched to Vultr due to price and was actually pretty surprised ho

by tnolet 9y ago

I guess they are also price matching Vultr, a company missing from the TechCrunch article. I switched to Vultr due to price and was actually pretty surprised how good it was. I must not have been alone...

NicoJuicy 9y ago
I have my windows servers running there with my licenses
IgorPartola 9y ago
I switched to Vultr years ago because they gave each VPS a proper IPv6 /64. DO was stuck on doing /128s at the time. I haven't yet looked back. At the time they also gave you 768MB RAM for $5 while DO had 512MB.
- tnolet 9y ago
  yeah, it's somewhat a "hidden" treasure. No idea why they are not often mentioned or used in comparisons and such. The servers are great, the pricing is great and the UI is really nice.
  - IgorPartola 9y ago
    Yup. To expand on that, I'd also consider online.net and Scaleway.com. Both are damn good.
    - thejosh 9y ago
      I would avoid scaleway due to stock issues.
- f2n 9y ago
  Pretty sure they still just give out a /128, and also silently drop outbound TCP connections on some ports over IPv6 (without documenting it)
  - IgorPartola 9y ago
    Wtf. Why?
    - f2n 9y ago
      Well, the two undocumented blocked ports that I've found are ports 25 and port 587, for sending mail. They claim that this is how they control spam problems. But I can't really take them seriously after spending hours debugging this, only to find they're doing it on purpose.
f2n 9y ago
I've been comparing DO and Linode, and quickly finding out that Linode is missing things that are super handy for automated infrastructure building like a metadata service and userdata required for cloudinit. Does vultr offer such options? EDIT: Got to a desktop machine and poked around their site for a few minutes, they appear to offer metadata support (https://www.vultr.com/metadata/ https://www.vultr.com/metadata/) but I don't see anything for user data, which is unfortunate and seems really easy to add. EDIT2: I can't find specific documentation on how to access the user data but they have a page on cloud-init which makes reference to such an option (https://www.vultr.com/docs/getting-started-with-cloud-init https://www.vultr.com/docs/getting-started-with-cloud-init)

by tnolet 9y ago

NicoJuicy 9y ago

I have my windows servers running there with my licenses

IgorPartola 9y ago

I switched to Vultr years ago because they gave each VPS a proper IPv6 /64. DO was stuck on doing /128s at the time. I haven't yet looked back. At the time they also gave you 768MB RAM for $5 while DO had 512MB.

tnolet 9y ago
yeah, it's somewhat a "hidden" treasure. No idea why they are not often mentioned or used in comparisons and such. The servers are great, the pricing is great and the UI is really nice.
- IgorPartola 9y ago
  Yup. To expand on that, I'd also consider online.net and Scaleway.com. Both are damn good.
  - thejosh 9y ago
    I would avoid scaleway due to stock issues.
f2n 9y ago
Pretty sure they still just give out a /128, and also silently drop outbound TCP connections on some ports over IPv6 (without documenting it)
- IgorPartola 9y ago
  Wtf. Why?
  - f2n 9y ago
    Well, the two undocumented blocked ports that I've found are ports 25 and port 587, for sending mail. They claim that this is how they control spam problems. But I can't really take them seriously after spending hours debugging this, only to find they're doing it on purpose.

f2n 9y ago

I've been comparing DO and Linode, and quickly finding out that Linode is missing things that are super handy for automated infrastructure building like a metadata service and userdata required for cloudinit. Does vultr offer such options? EDIT: Got to a desktop machine and poked around their site for a few minutes, they appear to offer metadata support (https://www.vultr.com/metadata/ https://www.vultr.com/metadata/) but I don't see anything for user data, which is unfortunate and seems really easy to add. EDIT2: I can't find specific documentation on how to access the user data but they have a page on cloud-init which makes reference to such an option (https://www.vultr.com/docs/getting-started-with-cloud-init https://www.vultr.com/docs/getting-started-with-cloud-init)