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Vultr: DigitalOcean Clone

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If it weren't posted on HN and I found it on the web in general, I'd probably pass over it. Unlike DigitalOcean, their website doesn't indicate what virtualization they're using. On the lowendtalk link that amjd provided, they mention that it's KVM, but there are so many providers offering cheap VPSs that are oversold using OpenVZ or something. Similarly, lowendtalk mentions that they're using SSDs, but there's nary a mention of that on their website. It feels like Vultr bought a ready-made template for a cloud host and put in their logo.

DigitalOcean's online presence earns a lot of trust. Their website makes clear what they're offering, the mentions of developers and popular open-source technologies makes them seem like they know the score, and their ever-expanding library of how-to guides shows a certain involvement and investment. Vultr might be a great service, but their website makes it seem like the loads of cheap, oversold VPS solutions out there who have just bought some dedicated servers and are renting them out. If they want to combat that perception, they should be offering information. Their website is buzz-word ready with "powerful infrastructure" and "high speed performance", but that isn't going to win over developers. That's like a new database product saying that it "automatically scales". If you're going to make the claim, you need to explain how.

Apparently it's owned by Choopa. More details here: http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/22347/they-call-it-digital-...

The design seems heavily 'inspired' by DigitalOcean. Doesn't look very promising to me as of now.

Heavily 'inspired' for sure. I think it's doing them a bit of a disservice having their site be so similar to DO. An original brand focusing on how they are different from everyone else targeting devs may be better for them.

"Host on 6 Continents" they say but have data centers only at US, Europe, Japan and Australia.

Be sure to read the comments here: https://vpsboard.com/topic/3607-choopa-sends-out-vultr-to-dr...

Looks like several people are reporting cases of this: https://vpsboard.com/topic/3607-choopa-sends-out-vultr-to-dr...

A new account already had the customer details / data from a GameServer.com customer. Looks like Vultr is using the same billing database as their other brand.

David from Choopa provided an explanation in the thread, but it still doesn't sit easy with me.

DigitalOcean is just a nicely packaged, well-marketed VPS provider. From a consumer perspective, that is. Isn't "Vultr: another VPS provider" more appropriate?

Have a look at Vultr's homepage next to DigitalOcean's: http://i.imgur.com/WyEggC9.png

The pricing page is similarly copied; "clone" seems appropriate.

"We'll double your first payment"?!

They'll charge me twice?

So why should I use this over DigitalOcean?

One advantage I see is if you are away from New York and SF, and want low latency. They have locations in Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, and Seattle.

I have an issue with this type of question. Given compute moves to commodity, the only valid answer is 'price'. Granted, things like support and uptime need to be factored into cost calculations, but given we're moving to more and more transitional instances this will matter less and less over time.

Because its a commodity space where you should be using the cheapest provider?

Looks nice!

IPv6?

It's not actually mine, so I'm not sure :)

Not as of now

No reverse DNS, it seems.

No SSDs?

They do have SSDs.

Where does it say that?

I posted a link to a LowEndTalk thread discussing it in another comment, please check that out :)

On the pricing page.

Specifically, in the text under the Intel logo.

All machines are SSD based, though we neglected to make that obvious. We will correct it.

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