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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 how good it was. I must not have been alone...

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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/) 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)

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.

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.

Yup. To expand on that, I'd also consider online.net and Scaleway.com. Both are damn good.

I would avoid scaleway due to stock issues.

Pretty sure they still just give out a /128, and also silently drop outbound TCP connections on some ports over IPv6 (without documenting it)

Wtf. Why?

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.

I have my windows servers running there with my licenses

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