Vultr

black3dynamite

It's a lot cheaper for lab and production use.
I like using it for instances that doesn't need a lot of resources like freepbx, nginx (reverse-proxy), and Nextcloud.

bigbear

Vultr doesnt offer anything like wpengine.com. Vultr offers virtual machines, WPEngine is more of a wordpress managed service.

A good alternative to wpengine is Envato Wordpress Hosting. Under $20/month and you get access to the top selling templates for free. They also provide excellent support.

scottalanmiller

@bigbear said in Vultr:

Vultr doesnt offer anything like wpengine.com. Vultr offers virtual machines, WPEngine is more of a wordpress managed service.

A good alternative to wpengine is Envato Wordpress Hosting. Under $20/month and you get access to the top selling templates for free. They also provide excellent support.

And Hostadillo for Wordpress. That's who hosts SMBITJournal

bigbear

@scottalanmiller nice price, how long have you been on it?

scottalanmiller

@bigbear said in Vultr:

@scottalanmiller nice price, how long have you been on it?

They are pretty new. Maybe... three months? It's $10, but it's not unlimited sites. It's fully managed, though.

If you go to https://smbitjournal.com/ you can check the performance on a busy site.

jmoore

Ok cool thanks. So sounds like more Rackspace, who I use and its expensive, where its do absolutely everything yourself?

scottalanmiller

@jmoore said in Vultr:

Ok cool thanks. So sounds like more Rackspace, who I use and its expensive, where its do absolutely everything yourself?

Both are IaaS. Vultr is just a higher end, lower cost one.

jmoore

got it thanks

scottalanmiller

RS has some features that Vultr does not, but mostly not ones you'd care about. RS is so much more expensive and the service isn't as good, so that their extra features are mostly worthless. They have more flexible plans, but Vultr you just overbuy for less money. And Vultr has much higher performance at the same specs.

jmoore

I;m going to look at them, thanks!

scottalanmiller

Use the banner ads here... ML gets like a $5 credit for you joining from the community. And you get something too, no idea what.

jmoore

Yep I'll glad support ML like that. People and blogs that I like I try to click on ads there to help support.

StrongBad

Vultr is great, and it lets you use your own ISOs if you want, which isn't very common.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said in Vultr:

Use the banner ads here... ML gets like a $5 credit for you joining from the community. And you get something too, no idea what.

Damnit... I completely spaced this when setting up a new account today Sorry guys.