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Vultr introduces new free tier

31 points by AJRF 4y ago

sourcecodeplz 4y ago
Tried it but it wouldn't take my card without making a deposit of $5. Have no idea why. Guess I'll stick to the Oracle free tier.
- liminalsunset 4y ago
  It might be because it thinks your card is "prepaid". I tried a Wise card and it didn't work, but a normal credit card from the bank worked. The payment method also cannot be attached to a different account
- dizhn 4y ago
  This is tiny compared to oracle's free offerings anyway. (Up to 4 vms with a lot more ram, disk space and cpu)
  - hammyhavoc 4y ago
    I've read about a lot of people having their Oracle free tier abruptly terminated with no reason stated and not allowed to download their data either. I wouldn't trust them after reading that.
    - dizhn 4y ago
      As a precaution I am seeing that a lot of people are moving to a paid account without actually using any paid service. In my use case I am taking offsite backups in the event that the service might be discontinued. I don't have anything hosted there that I couldn't stand to be off for a few days.
Alifatisk 4y ago
Note > We are prioritizing access for users who request it by completing the form, and will be incrementally granting access to users who sign up for Vultr with a business email address.
ClapperHeid 4y ago
>To be eligible to apply for early access to the Free Tier Program, accounts must have the following: >Credit Card >To be eligible for a Free Tier instance you must have a regular credit card on file with us. Prepaid cards are not an acceptable payment type for Free Tier eligibility, neither is PayPal, Crypto, etc. Er... no thanks. Why do you need my credit card if it's free?
- amadeuspagel 4y ago
  Because this is an offering that could easily be abused (crypto-mining, DDoS, bot farms). Requiring credit cards stops people from making many accounts.
- failsecure 4y ago
  To hold you accountable for the things you do with their network maybe?
vlucas 4y ago
"Oh no" is my initial reaction. I can't help but think this is a bad idea for Vultr's paying customers. I hope free users have a separate network and separate physical computers from paying customers.
- bsder 4y ago
  Yeah, this pretty much means that I'm reconsidering everything I have on Vultr. I hope they know what they're doing ...
- 22c 4y ago
  I've already had to contact Vultr in the past due to a "noisy neighbour" impacting my relatively low traffic website. I can't shake the feeling that I'm about to get a lot more noisy neighbours...

31 points by AJRF 4y ago

Tried it but it wouldn't take my card without making a deposit of $5. Have no idea why. Guess I'll stick to the Oracle free tier.

liminalsunset 4y ago
It might be because it thinks your card is "prepaid". I tried a Wise card and it didn't work, but a normal credit card from the bank worked. The payment method also cannot be attached to a different account
dizhn 4y ago
This is tiny compared to oracle's free offerings anyway. (Up to 4 vms with a lot more ram, disk space and cpu)
- hammyhavoc 4y ago
  I've read about a lot of people having their Oracle free tier abruptly terminated with no reason stated and not allowed to download their data either. I wouldn't trust them after reading that.
  - dizhn 4y ago
    As a precaution I am seeing that a lot of people are moving to a paid account without actually using any paid service. In my use case I am taking offsite backups in the event that the service might be discontinued. I don't have anything hosted there that I couldn't stand to be off for a few days.

Alifatisk 4y ago

Note > We are prioritizing access for users who request it by completing the form, and will be incrementally granting access to users who sign up for Vultr with a business email address.

ClapperHeid 4y ago

>To be eligible to apply for early access to the Free Tier Program, accounts must have the following: >Credit Card >To be eligible for a Free Tier instance you must have a regular credit card on file with us. Prepaid cards are not an acceptable payment type for Free Tier eligibility, neither is PayPal, Crypto, etc. Er... no thanks. Why do you need my credit card if it's free?

amadeuspagel 4y ago
Because this is an offering that could easily be abused (crypto-mining, DDoS, bot farms). Requiring credit cards stops people from making many accounts.
failsecure 4y ago
To hold you accountable for the things you do with their network maybe?

vlucas 4y ago

"Oh no" is my initial reaction. I can't help but think this is a bad idea for Vultr's paying customers. I hope free users have a separate network and separate physical computers from paying customers.

bsder 4y ago
Yeah, this pretty much means that I'm reconsidering everything I have on Vultr. I hope they know what they're doing ...
22c 4y ago
I've already had to contact Vultr in the past due to a "noisy neighbour" impacting my relatively low traffic website. I can't shake the feeling that I'm about to get a lot more noisy neighbours...