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First time I'm hearing of Vultr...they look like a carbon copy of DO. What does Vultr have that they don't?

by Dirlewanger 7y ago

porker 7y ago
> What does Vultr have that they don't? According to multiple HN users, a more unreliable (internal) network.
- bluedino 7y ago
  Ironically I moved from DO to Vultr because their network was more reliable
dwild 7y ago
Vultr allow running on bare metal and they also allow access to BGP. That's both niche needs, but that's also what you expect from a smaller player, to fill niche market.
toomuchtodo 7y ago
Commodities have little differentiation between themselves. Compute alone is a commodity.
drewnick 7y ago
DO has more managed services like databases, k8s, etc. Otherwise they are very similar. Vultr has more locations in the US.
emmanueloga_ 7y ago
Last time I checked Vultr included a DDoS service [1] an DO did not. Caveat: I don't really know much about this service, maybe someone here can chime in? * I don't know how reliable it is * I don't know if a small/medium app really needs it * I don't know if you would be better off using something like cloudflare anyway * Etc... What I do know is that a long time ago I used to host some stuff on a VPS (Linode I think) and I would routinely run out of bandwidth because of traffic coming most of the time from random AWS IPs, which seemed like shady bot networks or something. Ergo having a DDoS service like this seems useful even if you are hosting a small site. 1: https://www.vultr.com/products/ddos-protection/ https://www.vultr.com/products/ddos-protection/
kiwijamo 7y ago
They have POPs in parts of the world DO doesn't have. E.g. they have a Sydney POP which attracts customers from Australia and New Zealand. Location was pretty much the main reason why I chose Vultr over DO as I found everything else was more or less on par.
lancepioch 7y ago
Bring your own ip: https://www.vultr.com/features/bgp/ https://www.vultr.com/features/bgp/
PixyMisa 7y ago
A lot more locations and some really great NVMe-based high-performance nodes.

First time I'm hearing of Vultr...they look like a carbon copy of DO. What does Vultr have that they don't?

porker 7y ago

> What does Vultr have that they don't? According to multiple HN users, a more unreliable (internal) network.

bluedino 7y ago
Ironically I moved from DO to Vultr because their network was more reliable

dwild 7y ago

Vultr allow running on bare metal and they also allow access to BGP. That's both niche needs, but that's also what you expect from a smaller player, to fill niche market.

toomuchtodo 7y ago

Commodities have little differentiation between themselves. Compute alone is a commodity.

drewnick 7y ago

DO has more managed services like databases, k8s, etc. Otherwise they are very similar. Vultr has more locations in the US.

emmanueloga_ 7y ago

Last time I checked Vultr included a DDoS service [1] an DO did not. Caveat: I don't really know much about this service, maybe someone here can chime in? * I don't know how reliable it is * I don't know if a small/medium app really needs it * I don't know if you would be better off using something like cloudflare anyway * Etc... What I do know is that a long time ago I used to host some stuff on a VPS (Linode I think) and I would routinely run out of bandwidth because of traffic coming most of the time from random AWS IPs, which seemed like shady bot networks or something. Ergo having a DDoS service like this seems useful even if you are hosting a small site. 1: https://www.vultr.com/products/ddos-protection/ https://www.vultr.com/products/ddos-protection/

kiwijamo 7y ago

They have POPs in parts of the world DO doesn't have. E.g. they have a Sydney POP which attracts customers from Australia and New Zealand. Location was pretty much the main reason why I chose Vultr over DO as I found everything else was more or less on par.

lancepioch 7y ago

Bring your own ip: https://www.vultr.com/features/bgp/ https://www.vultr.com/features/bgp/

PixyMisa 7y ago

A lot more locations and some really great NVMe-based high-performance nodes.