#1 most frequent
United States of America
42.0%42,796 installations of 102,008
What is Vultr?
Vultr is an independent cloud computing platform on a mission to provide businesses and developers around the world with unrivaled ease of use, price-to-performance, and global reach.
Categories & Use Cases
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Screenshot of Vultr's control panel helps users spend less time managing infrastructure.
Top Performing Features
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
The service uptime as a percentage defined in the SLA
Category average: 8.5
Operating system support
Range of operating systems available as pre-configured images
Category average: 8.3
Elastic load balancing
Automatic balancing and distribution of resources across multiple virtual computers
Category average: 9
Areas for Improvement
Security controls
Compliance with security protocols like SSL and AES
Category average: 8.7
Automation
Automation of administrative tasks
Category average: 7.6
Monitoring tools
Monitoring tools provide alerts when problems are detected
Category average: 7.7
Who Buys & Uses Vultr
#1 most frequent
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
9.7%9,784 installations of 101,287
“Moving from Cloudways to Vultr (with GridPane) has saved us over $100 per month.”
#2 most frequent
Other Services (except Public Administration)
3.8%3,818 installations of 101,287
#3 most frequent
Manufacturing
3.8%3,818 installations of 101,287
#2 most frequent
Australia
13.1%13,314 installations of 102,008
#3 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
7.7%7,838 installations of 102,008
Pros
- Competitive and transparent pricing structure
- High performance and reliability with consistent uptime
- Ease of use and simplified server deployment
Cons
- Pricing concerns for specific services (e.g., bare metal, Kubernetes)
- Limited advanced features (e.g., VPN, WAF, advanced failover)
- Opportunities for improved support communication channels (e.g., phone, live chat)
Vultr enables quick out-of-the-box building
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Vultr to host various research projects and team infrastructure (websites, databases, etc.) Vultr is highly unique in that they provide BGP speaking capability if you BYO prefix, along with a live real-time view of Vultr's routing table - invaluable if you are doing research on network conditions, want to monitor BGP logs, or fine-tune your own BGP announcements.
Pros
- wide arrange of offerings utilizing open-source OSes and APIs
- BGP speaking capability
- fast and response customer service
Cons
- better user management. currently creating a user under another person's account requires using an email address that is not registered with Vultr already. It would be nice to have a single account login with separate profiles/UI views when associated with different organizations or groups.
Return on Investment
- Vultr has enabled many of our research projects because of its ease to use and its BGP features. Thumbs up!
- Price is lower than most competitors
- Vultr's user management system has made it a little clunky to keep track of user logins and permissions
Alternatives Considered
Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Fastly Compute@Edge
Other Software Used
Let's Encrypt, Cloudflare, Squarespace
Usability
Vultr - Simple Reliable and Affordable
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Vultr is used for our support lab setup. Vultr allows us to easily create VMs to test out our products. It gives direct access to a public IP which is a huge bonus when working with SIP. In addition to this Vultrs interface is one of the best I've seen. As I find AWS/Google cloud have a bigger learning curve. The same holds true for pricing, with Vultr I know exactly how much I am paying, but I can't say the same for other providers.
Pros
- Rock Solid Up Time and Stability
- Easy To Use Interface
- Simple Billing
Cons
- More advanced failover options. I should be able to configure a VM to reside within multiple data centers.
- Quicker snapshot restore time
- Quicker snapshot restore time
Return on Investment
- Quick to expand our lab during weeks when more systems are needed, in a very cost efficient way.
- Creates a separation from our corp network.
- Low cost $5 systems are still very fast and each has its own public IP.
Alternatives Considered
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Google Compute Engine and DigitalOcean Droplets
Other Software Used
Google Chrome, Wireshark, Microsoft 365, FreePBX
Vultr is a breath of fresh air
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Vultr for much of core SaaS infrastructure to service our data, API, and messaging needs.
Pros
- Cost-effective elastic infrastructure
- Simple provisioning
- Fully integrated with IaC providers
Cons
- Better documentation
- More granular IAM
- Support for more complex VPC configurations
Return on Investment
- Much simpler provisioning
- Significant cloud spend savings
- Improved deployment agility
Alternatives Considered
Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform
Other Software Used
DbVisualizer, Cursor
Usability
Great alternative to AWS Azure and Google
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are a web-hosting company for a niche application. We have more than 30 Vultr VPS instances hosting hundreds of customer sites.
Pros
- UI is much simpler than AWS
- Prices are lower than AWS
- Vultr support engineers will respond to tickets quickly
Cons
- Hosted databases are not as powerful as AWS
- Backup solution is expensive
Return on Investment
- Saved money
Other Software Used
AlmaLinux OS, WordPress, Node.js
competitive and better than digital ocean
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We have multiple servers on Vultr for AI training and personal use. Vultr offers one of the best, user-friendly, easy-to-use, and easy-to-deploy platforms for users, and we love that.
Pros
- deploying servers fast
- offers no serverless inference subscriptions
- supports all popular database engines
Cons
- optimizing servers for big ai training projects
Return on Investment
- very competitive pricing
- easy to manage and deploy servers
- offers fast support by email
Other Software Used
AWS Backup, Google Ad Manager, Google Analytics
