Vultr vs Digital Ocean
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Now that pricing is similar, which provider are you choosing? Pros and Cons?
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I still go with Vultr because I can upload an ISO to them.
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@brianlittlejohn that is a very nice feature!
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@brianlittlejohn said in Vultr vs Digital Ocean:
I still go with Vultr because I can upload an ISO to them.
Yep. It's such a small thing, but looms very large as the one missing feature of every other provider.
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I wonder what is stopping DO from providing such a feature...
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Vultr has a bigger selection of installation options, it's historically much better in price, you get better performance from the same specs by a big margin, you can use ISOs which is enormous as features go.
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@aaronstuder said in Vultr vs Digital Ocean:
I wonder what is stopping DO from providing such a feature...
It adds a lot of complications and you basically need to have a Windows deal, effectively, to be able to do it. It means you will have workloads that don't work well and are not tested being messed with on your systems constantly and support calls from people who have messed them up trying to get you to fix them.
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I'd go Vultr.
The only reason I didn't, was because I got a way better deal somewhere else for Black Friday. (turnkeyinternet.net)
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I'll be the annoying one and say DigitalOcean. It's much more convenient for me to create a system with Terraform (or Ansible). I can build images with Packer and then use Terraform to create from those.
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@stacksofplates said in Vultr vs Digital Ocean:
I'll be the annoying one and say DigitalOcean. It's much more convenient for me to create a system with Terraform (or Ansible). I can build images with Packer and then use Terraform to create from those.
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@black3dynamite said in Vultr vs Digital Ocean:
@stacksofplates said in Vultr vs Digital Ocean:
I'll be the annoying one and say DigitalOcean. It's much more convenient for me to create a system with Terraform (or Ansible). I can build images with Packer and then use Terraform to create from those.
Packer is pretty cool.
Ya all of their stuff is pretty awesome. I really need to start playing with Vault.
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With Vultr's pricing, they've always appeared to focus on beating the competition; not just trying to keep up with it like DO. That's not a technical answer, just something I've noticed. At least when it comes to options and pricing.
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@bbigford said in Vultr vs Digital Ocean:
With Vultr's pricing, they've always appeared to focus on beating the competition; not just trying to keep up with it like DO. That's not a technical answer, just something I've noticed. At least when it comes to options and pricing.
Yeah, DO just caught up to Vultr. After like a year of being double. I expect Vultr to leap into the lead again soon.
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@scottalanmiller said in Vultr vs Digital Ocean:
@bbigford said in Vultr vs Digital Ocean:
With Vultr's pricing, they've always appeared to focus on beating the competition; not just trying to keep up with it like DO. That's not a technical answer, just something I've noticed. At least when it comes to options and pricing.
Yeah, DO just caught up to Vultr. After like a year of being double. I expect Vultr to leap into the lead again soon.
Since Vultr’s prices are so low already, what would you expect them to leap forward with? Even lower pricing? A new feature/service? If a new feature, what could set them ahead that’s missing from VPS providers?
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@fuznutz04 said in Vultr vs Digital Ocean:
@scottalanmiller said in Vultr vs Digital Ocean:
@bbigford said in Vultr vs Digital Ocean:
With Vultr's pricing, they've always appeared to focus on beating the competition; not just trying to keep up with it like DO. That's not a technical answer, just something I've noticed. At least when it comes to options and pricing.
Yeah, DO just caught up to Vultr. After like a year of being double. I expect Vultr to leap into the lead again soon.
Since Vultr’s prices are so low already, what would you expect them to leap forward with? Even lower pricing? A new feature/service? If a new feature, what could set them ahead that’s missing from VPS providers?
This is where we were a year ago... we thought that they were so low that they couldn't lower prices. Then they cut them in half. Cloud prices will always keep going down, that's the nature of this kind of tech. Over time, the cost of a vCPU to them, the cost of 1GB of RAM, the cost of 20GB of storage just keeps decreasing both as technology moves forward and as their scale improves.
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Fingers crossed!
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I almost wonder if it will get like a commodity where there is no money to be made, especially on the lower end.
It's happened with enough other technologies.
Or where people keep predicting Windows will end up.
