Testing Out Vultr
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
The support custom ISOs as well, which is a nice feature.
Awesome. So in theory you could do your on backups (via unitrends etc.) and boot via the recovery media to restore if needed.
In theory. We would need to test that to see if there are any roadblocks.
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@thecreativeone91 Here are the locations for the storage servers....
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And here are the pricing levels.
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For big storage, this stuff is pretty cheap. You can add on other kinds of storage too.
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Dang $240/year to run a pretty decent fileserver (500gb) for most SMBs that could put all their files in the cloud if that don't have anything too big or a crappy connection. Not a bad price at all.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Dang $240/year to run a pretty decent fileserver (500gb) for most SMBs that could put all their files in the cloud if that don't have anything too big or a crappy connection. Not a bad price at all.
Yup, it's some amazing storage price points.
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Also, that base SATA package is 1vCPU and 512 RAM, that is a phone system there.
Way more phone system than most SMB need. and it is only $5/month
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@JaredBusch said:
Also, that base SATA package is 1vCPU and 512 RAM, that is a phone system there.
Way more phone system than most SMB need. and it is only $5/month
You get a better phone system with the other package. $5/mo on the performance rather than the storage option gets you more memory and faster IO for the same money.
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@JaredBusch said:
Also, that base SATA package is 1vCPU and 512 RAM, that is a phone system there.
Way more phone system than most SMB need. and it is only $5/month
Same price points as Digital Ocean too.
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Well it is day two and already our Vultr server is offline. We can see the console, the box is up and running, but it has lost network access.
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Rebooted and we are back up. But for an idle Linux box to lose networking after one day with nothing running on it is pretty fishy. Going to keep monitoring this. We've never seen this happen with another provider before.
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From the SAR report, it has rebooted three times! Twice without us. Argh.
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Our Vultr system is down... AGAIN. This is not boding well. Looking into it now, but it has only been a few hours and it is offline again.
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Confirmed, the IPv4 address is blank. It's losing its DHCP.
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If I restart the interface from the console, IPv4 returns.
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Well that was pretty easy as a test goes. Vultr is a fail. No compelling features. The price is good but only the same as Digital Ocean which we have been testing for a couple of months without a single issue. Vultr makes some odd claims like that they are the biggest when, in fact, they are a tiny player. That stuff worried me. Looks like they are not prime time ready from what I can see.
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Migrating our stuff that we were testing off of Vultr over to Digital Ocean. It was worth the effort to test and know, but our suspicions were correct. The weird claims, the "CloudatCost" style "sale price" on VM instances.... too good to be true.
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@scottalanmiller Would be interesting to hear their take on why this is occurring.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Vultr makes some odd claims like that they are the biggest when, in fact, they are a tiny player.
Very similar to C@C
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@Danp said:
@scottalanmiller Would be interesting to hear their take on why this is occurring.
I've reached out to support and got a response. There is a known issue with DHCP on CentOS 7 on their platform and they recommend manually reconfiguring the boxes for static. I'm trying that now, but not impressed. If they know that there is an issue, why haven't they addressed it?
