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For those of us in NZ, there are only three providers on the list of "good" or "really good" that have a presence in Sydney: Vultr (https://www.vultr.com/ https

by amanzi 7y ago

For those of us in NZ, there are only three providers on the list of "good" or "really good" that have a presence in Sydney: Vultr (https://www.vultr.com/ https://www.vultr.com/), Linode (https://www.linode.com https://www.linode.com), and VPS Server (https://www.vpsserver.com/ https://www.vpsserver.com/).

berkut 7y ago
I'm in NZ, and Vultr has been awesome for me, although no block storage in Sydney... AWS is available (with Lightsail as well) in Sydney as well (albeit with reduced bandwidth compared to other regions for the pricing).
jonny383 7y ago
+1 for Vultr. Not in NZ but we've been using them for various app / database servers for coming on four years now and we have literally only ever had one minor issue. Their support is through ticketing only (AFAIK), but their support team is very fast at responding.
- amanzi 7y ago
  I've used Vultr for a few years now and am overall very happy. I just wish they'd bring their block storage offering to Sydney too.
  - jonny383 7y ago
    Can't +1 this enough!
mekster 7y ago
Have used DO, Linode and Vultr (and some others) for 5+ years but Vultr is the only one that keeps having network problems every now and then. I run "monit" on all instances that checks for connectivity every minute but maybe every few months or so, I get alerts of network reachability for a slight moment from Vultr instance located in Silicon valley region. It's cool that they accept Bitcoin for payment though. The page's test of course doesn't test reliability over the years and it seems it's not done 10 times on different instances, and the performance could've randomly fluctuated on the test, so I'd take the results with a grain of salt. DO has been pretty stable for me. It just keeps running with no interferance. Linode sometimes (like once a year) makes your instance unavailable for a tiny moment for maintenance but they provide you with clear explanation beforehand and I think it's good that they actively patch security problems that way. Also good that they pool bandwidth from multiple instances, so even if your small instance takes lots of bandwidth, if you got some other instances, it can consume the limit from those too as a single pool. Another for Linode is that they release OS images so fast as in they had CentOS 8 image the day I read the news it was released. I checked the others but only Linode had it then.
climb_stealth 7y ago
I have been happy with binarylane hosted in Sydney. I tried vultr ~2 years ago and at least then they did not have their own ubuntu repository mirror. All the package manager downloads were painfully slow. Digital Ocean and binarylane mirror the repo and any package can be pulled pretty much instantly and it makes the initial setup much more pleasant.
zhte415 7y ago
Rimuhosting has options for Auckland if interested in NZ hosting. NZD 18, which is about USD 12, for a 2G option with 15G bandwidth.

by amanzi 7y ago

berkut 7y ago

I'm in NZ, and Vultr has been awesome for me, although no block storage in Sydney... AWS is available (with Lightsail as well) in Sydney as well (albeit with reduced bandwidth compared to other regions for the pricing).

jonny383 7y ago

+1 for Vultr. Not in NZ but we've been using them for various app / database servers for coming on four years now and we have literally only ever had one minor issue. Their support is through ticketing only (AFAIK), but their support team is very fast at responding.

amanzi 7y ago
I've used Vultr for a few years now and am overall very happy. I just wish they'd bring their block storage offering to Sydney too.
- jonny383 7y ago
  Can't +1 this enough!

mekster 7y ago

Have used DO, Linode and Vultr (and some others) for 5+ years but Vultr is the only one that keeps having network problems every now and then. I run "monit" on all instances that checks for connectivity every minute but maybe every few months or so, I get alerts of network reachability for a slight moment from Vultr instance located in Silicon valley region. It's cool that they accept Bitcoin for payment though. The page's test of course doesn't test reliability over the years and it seems it's not done 10 times on different instances, and the performance could've randomly fluctuated on the test, so I'd take the results with a grain of salt. DO has been pretty stable for me. It just keeps running with no interferance. Linode sometimes (like once a year) makes your instance unavailable for a tiny moment for maintenance but they provide you with clear explanation beforehand and I think it's good that they actively patch security problems that way. Also good that they pool bandwidth from multiple instances, so even if your small instance takes lots of bandwidth, if you got some other instances, it can consume the limit from those too as a single pool. Another for Linode is that they release OS images so fast as in they had CentOS 8 image the day I read the news it was released. I checked the others but only Linode had it then.

climb_stealth 7y ago

I have been happy with binarylane hosted in Sydney. I tried vultr ~2 years ago and at least then they did not have their own ubuntu repository mirror. All the package manager downloads were painfully slow. Digital Ocean and binarylane mirror the repo and any package can be pulled pretty much instantly and it makes the initial setup much more pleasant.

zhte415 7y ago

Rimuhosting has options for Auckland if interested in NZ hosting. NZD 18, which is about USD 12, for a 2G option with 15G bandwidth.