On 4/23/25 12:04, John C. Vernaleo wrote: > I used Vultr for personal stuff (mix of Linux and OpenBSD) for years and > up until recently was pretty happy. The last year or two I've been > using them very heavily for work and it has been a nightmare. Frequent > downtime, poor disk performance, weird disk locking issues, lack of > available resources in their data centers, pretty much any cloud issue > you can think of, I've hit (and we're only talking a couple dozen > servers across their regions, not a huge footprint by cloud scale).
Oh ditto JV. We have a dozen or so Vultr cloud things/VPSs and the number of alerts can get out of hand.. and the email body conveys that it's some ticket we filed. I imagine the timeline of issues is connected to their acquisition: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vultr-holdings-llc > > arpnetworks has been great for me with openbsd for me for a long time. > After my vultr expereince, I'll be moving my remaining personal stuff > back to arpnetworks (that's what I get for chasing a cheaper price). > So true. Cheap is good until you need consistent performance and uptime. g > ------------------------------------------------------- > John C. Vernaleo, Ph.D. > www.netpurgatory.com > j...@netpurgatory.com > ------------------------------------------------------- > > On Tue, 22 Apr 2025, Charles Sprickman wrote: > >> I'm still using Vultr without any real issues. >> They have FreeBSD and OpenBSD available as one-click installs: >> >> https://i.imgur.com/uLJlziD.png >> >> I really haven't had any issues with them, and the pricing is really >> nice for little projects where you just need a server "out there" and >> don't want to >> spend more than $4/month. Performance is fine (I do have a few VPSs >> that do some web hosting). The only downside is that they do seem to >> have frequent >> maintenance events, but they are very good about sending advance >> notice (and of course, it indicates some level of competency if >> they're keeping up with >> updates/fixes to the hosting and networking stuff). >> >> Charles >> >> On Apr 21, 2025, at 3:39 PM, jpb <j...@jimby.name> wrote: >> >> >> Hi Folks, >> >> I'm doing my once-a-decade survey on hosting providers. Currently >> using Netactuate (old RootBSD) and I'm happy with them, but they're a >> bit pricey. >> >> I'm looking to compare pricing on a virtual private server (virtual >> server, not bare metal) with 4GB RAM and 60GB disk. These are rough >> numbers - I'll consider both requirements up some or down some. >> >> MUST be willing to let me run FreeBSD, even -CURRENT. >> >> I'm currently aware of: >> >> Netactuate >> Panix >> HiVelocity >> Arp Networks >> and >> OpenBSD Amsterdam (not pursuing since they are OpenBSD only) >> >> What else is out there ? >> >> Thanks Everyone! >> Jim B. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@lists.nycbug.org >> https://lists.nycbug.org:8443/mailman/listinfo/talk >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@lists.nycbug.org > https://lists.nycbug.org:8443/mailman/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@lists.nycbug.org https://lists.nycbug.org:8443/mailman/listinfo/talk
