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I’m using vultr now and I vastly prefer it over Linode (I’ve yet to fully try DO). It’s super simple UI to start an instance with a basic script (like update d

by whb07 9y ago

I’m using vultr now and I vastly prefer it over Linode (I’ve yet to fully try DO). It’s super simple UI to start an instance with a basic script (like update distro and developer tools etc). Lastly, you can pass in your pub keys and just ssh directly without doing it yourself the moment you log in for the first time. All in all highly recommend it!

jchw 9y ago
I will have to try Vultr again. My last experience was good, but regrettably I still use DO and AWS for everything. Remarking on that, Digital Ocean is nothing special, but they have added some nice features in the past year or two. I like that their control panel supports multiple teams with permissions, I like that it has a nice tag-based firewall, the DNS service works fine, and it has an S3 clone called Spaces which is pretty handy. I believe they also announced recently that private networking would be isolated per-team instead of being the entire data center, another networking improvement that most low-end VPSes do not provide. All in all, if you just need a low end VPS, I would say there's no fault in going with something like Vultr, but Digital Ocean adds a few extra features that might be more useful if you're developing a medium-complexity system. Of course though, at that point, you probably want to at least consider Google Cloud Platform, a reasonably cost-effective host with very rich features. (And AWS, but my feelings for AWS have shrunk in recent times after having better experiences with GCP consistently at my day job.)
byuu 9y ago
Friendly note: they modify the stock install to enable root SSH login via password. I'd strongly recommend disabling that. Go to RSA key login as user only. In an absolute emergency, their GUI portal will let you log in as root via password.

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I’m using vultr now and I vastly prefer it over Linode (I’ve yet to fully try DO). It’s super simple UI to start an instance with a basic script (like update d

by whb07 9y ago

jchw 9y ago
I will have to try Vultr again. My last experience was good, but regrettably I still use DO and AWS for everything. Remarking on that, Digital Ocean is nothing special, but they have added some nice features in the past year or two. I like that their control panel supports multiple teams with permissions, I like that it has a nice tag-based firewall, the DNS service works fine, and it has an S3 clone called Spaces which is pretty handy. I believe they also announced recently that private networking would be isolated per-team instead of being the entire data center, another networking improvement that most low-end VPSes do not provide. All in all, if you just need a low end VPS, I would say there's no fault in going with something like Vultr, but Digital Ocean adds a few extra features that might be more useful if you're developing a medium-complexity system. Of course though, at that point, you probably want to at least consider Google Cloud Platform, a reasonably cost-effective host with very rich features. (And AWS, but my feelings for AWS have shrunk in recent times after having better experiences with GCP consistently at my day job.)
byuu 9y ago
Friendly note: they modify the stock install to enable root SSH login via password. I'd strongly recommend disabling that. Go to RSA key login as user only. In an absolute emergency, their GUI portal will let you log in as root via password.