Item: Vultr
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Vultr

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Vultr for offsite servers, such as backups or for tertiary servers to provide additional resiliency. We find it useful for ringfencing services that need to be offsite and off-domain for example. It also provides excellent value for money compared to Azure or AWS, plus the setup is super easy.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Value
Choice of virtual hardware
Easy to setup
Ease of use

Cons

Uptime - regular maintenance downtime on particular nodes causes some headaches
More billing options other than Credit Card

Return on Investment

Good value for money, especially for Windows servers
Good networking and WAN speeds
We've been able to save on costly physical servers and licensing for support or tertiary servers

Price to Performance

It's enabled us to focus exactly on what we need to provide servers for a variety of tasks. Any additional, unneeded features can be omitted. We can focus on storage or maybe more on CPU and transactional performance instead.

Alternatives Considered

Windows Server, Ubuntu and pfSense

Nice to use interface and better pricing than competitors.

Key Insights

Do you think Vultr delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Vultr's feature set?

Yes

Did Vultr live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Vultr go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Vultr again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

If you need offsite servers for non-critical infrastructure, I can heartily recommend Vultr as a great option, especially when you want plenty of options in hardware, OS and networking. It also includes great scalability to meet your needs. I've found some issues with regular downtime on certain hardware nodes or unexpected reboot of hosts. Depending on your needs, I won't personally use it for anything business critical.

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Great product offering with good ROI

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