Overview
What is Vultr?
Vultr is an independent cloud computing platform on a mission to provide businesses and developers around the world with unrivaled ease of use, price-to-performance, and global reach.
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DO NOT USE VULTR. SHUT DOWN MY WEBSITE ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS STOPPING ALL VENUE
we use Vultr for our servers. We thought it would be a great hosting providers and is incredibly poor
Finest cloud computing software we use
Vultr provides the best cloud servers, SSD VPS servers and etc which we feel very premium. The systems comes with a lot of features that …
Above average solutions
High-end, reliable, scalable and affordable cloud compute in different locations. We were able to easy deploy server nodes in different …
Vultr, a bare-metal challenger offering a huge global presence
We are considering using Vultr to support our search engine that rely on bare-metal infrastructure. Their global presence is an important …
Vultr is the reliability and stability in the cloud.
We have a constant need for reliable hosting solutions. We run all kinds of web operations: websites, web services, file services, …
Great hosting provider
We use Vultr for our US and UK servers for our SaaS platform.
Vultr - Reliable and Predicatable
10
out of 10
September 09, 2022
We host our customer's websites on Vultr, but Vultr is not our only provider. We use a series of VMs, Database Servers, Block Storage and …
Great when the server is up, not so great trying to reach support!
4
out of 10
September 09, 2022
I have been using Vultr for almost 6 months, over the short time I have used them, I have found that even the most basic support is …
Best cloud services
10
out of 10
August 04, 2022
It's very easy to use. The web interface is perfect and very easy to follow. The instances I created run my server are always delivering …
Vultr is wonderful for VPS, not so much for Dedicated..
3
out of 10
April 04, 2022
Short review - Vultr is the best VPS provider in the world by far. 11/10 amazing. A++++. Bare Metal doesn't have an unlimited bandwidth …
An evolving infrastructure provider on a great track
9
out of 10
March 16, 2022
We started using Vultr for small virtual machines for various tasks but have slowly moved all of our infrastructures over, especially now …
My first choice when I need reliable deployment
10
out of 10
March 10, 2022
I discover Vultr in 2015 after using some resources from DigitalOcean. Since that, Vultr is my main partner in deployment in several …
Good for Game Servers
10
out of 10
March 03, 2022
Using the server as a Game & Web Server, love the fact that it's a shared server and it never feels like your server is being impacted by …
Simply the best, offers what it promises with multiple server locations to choose from.
10
out of 10
February 22, 2022
Vultr Servers are steadily reliable, and super-fast, I have used them for 2 years now, and I have no regrets, I have tried other …
The perfect storage solution for most startups!
We use Vultr Block Storage with our virtual machine powered by Vultr and it allowed us to solve the storage issue because it connects with …
How Vultr Differs From Its Competitors
Price to Performance
It hasnt. Vultr is a very poor provider of these things
Price to Performance
This has helped our organisation very well by managing the businesses and providing the premium quality dashboards. This is one of the best cloud computing softwares we have ever using in our workflow. This saves a lot of our time and does the project management by it's own. This has the best …
Price to Performance
Vultrs offers rather good proportion of resources/price although it is not as cheap as other competitors of the same level. Solutions that Vulter offers are good but unlike others providers, they don't offer a complete set of solutions (apart from cloud, network, storage). This might be a drawback …
Global Reach
I used servers in different locations however I would like to see more locations and better networks in Asia, particularly optimized network for China.
Creating multiple nodes in multiple locations helped us be near our customer in different territories.
Global Reach
Vultr perfectly match our expectation in terms of global presence. That is an big point because it helps us having a single interlocutor in many different region, reducing management burden.
From now we didn't introduced a new region, but we are confident that Vultr could be of a good help to …
Price to Performance
We haven't used Vultr's resource optimizations to the full extent, but from our experience, the best thing we used was the flexible amount of storage that can be easily and quickly changed. Thanks to this, we paid just for the storage we needed and have the peace of mind that we can safely expand …
Global Reach
We serve a global user base and never had an issue with Vultr in that regard. However, we did not notice a direct increase in our market reach due to Vultr's expansion into new regions.
Price to Performance
Vultr has been such a great host for us, their prices are very reasonable compared to other hosts and I have never experienced any issues using there services. We have a couple of VPS’s through them in the UK and US, and never had any issues as there customer service is extremely organised.
Global Reach
Their global network is very wide, and they have many locations around the world which is handy for us and expanding.
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Pre-configured templates
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Pre-defined machine images
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Reviewer Pros & Cons
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$1
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Cloud Compute
$2.50
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Object Storage
$5
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per month
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.vultr.com/pricing
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $2.50 per month
Features
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
IaaS provides the basic building blocks for an IT infrastructure like servers, storage, and networking, in an on-demand model over the Internet
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6.9
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
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The service uptime as a percentage defined in the SLA
5.3
Dynamic scaling
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Ease of scaling up or down in response to customer needs
6
Elastic load balancing
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Automatic balancing and distribution of resources across multiple virtual computers
6.4
Pre-configured templates
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Pre-defined templates for virtual machines
5.6
Monitoring tools
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Monitoring tools provide alerts when problems are detected
5.8
Pre-defined machine images
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Range of different server configurations available
7.4
Operating system support
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Range of operating systems available as pre-configured images
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Security controls
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Compliance with security protocols like SSL and AES
5.1
Automation
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Automation of administrative tasks
Product Details
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What is Vultr?
Vultr aims to simplify the world of cloud computing and launching a cloud server environment in more than 20 global locations around the globe. Vultr helps developers deploy cloud servers, bare metal, and storage worldwide.
Led by veterans of the managed hosting business, the Vultr Team boasts 20+ years of experience in complex hosting environments and a mission to simplify the cloud. Vultr states it is their priority to offer a standardized highly reliable high performance cloud compute environment in all of the cities where they are active.
Vultr Features
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Features
- Supported: Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
- Supported: Dynamic scaling
- Supported: Elastic load balancing
- Supported: Pre-configured templates
- Supported: Monitoring tools
- Supported: Pre-defined machine images
- Supported: Operating system support
- Supported: Security controls
- Supported: Automation
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Vultr Competitors
Vultr Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
Supported Countries | North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa |
Supported Languages | English, Español, Deutsch, Chinese, Japanese, Português |
Vultr Downloadables
Frequently Asked Questions
Vultr is an independent cloud computing platform on a mission to provide businesses and developers around the world with unrivaled ease of use, price-to-performance, and global reach.
Vultr starts at $2.5.
DigitalOcean, Akamai Cloud Computing, and Ace Cloud VDI are common alternatives for Vultr.
Reviewers rate Operating system support highest, with a score of 7.4.
The most common users of Vultr are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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we use Vultr for our servers. We thought it would be a great hosting providers and is incredibly poor
They shut down my website on multiple occasions. We are a small business that requires our website to take bookings. They have shut it down and are not threating to destroy it in 48 hours. We have done absolutely nothing wrong or anything considering poor practives. DO NOT USE
January 19, 2024
Finest cloud computing software we use
Verified User
Analyst in Engineering
Information Technology & Services Company, 201-500 employees
Vultr provides the best cloud servers, SSD VPS servers and etc which we feel very premium. The systems comes with a lot of features that makes our business run easily. This helps us to simplify a lot of things and helps us to save our time so much. From this we can concentrate on our business with high potential. Overall it's good experience with Vultr.
Cloud Computing
SSD VPS computing
Access controlling
Dashboard
monitoring
customer support
Email marketing
Social media marketing
Vultr is best suitable for cloud computing and VPS management systems. The best part of Vultr is providing the genius dashboards and monitoring the access controls. Even the performance management is so well from Vultr. The alerts and notifications based in our system is so good and acceptable for configuration managements.
September 11, 2023
Above average solutions
High-end, reliable, scalable and affordable cloud compute in different locations. We were able to easy deploy server nodes in different locations and scale them once it was need. The website is really good, it is fast, with intuitive and modern UI. The choice of servers and OS is rather wide. The only drawback is the support. They seem to be rude and negligant even if you are a long-time user. One of the reasons I stopped using Vultr as the main solution provider was the poor experience with the support. My account was blocked because I had a VPN enabled while accessing their website to manage my servers. They refused to unblock it until I presented a passport and a selfie, which is hillarious for such a service. I have no guarantee they are capable of keeping my passport photo safe.
Easy-to-use website
Easy-to-understand services and pricing
Different locations
Wide variaty of solutions and OS
Support quality needs to be improved
Attitude towards customer should change
It would be great to add more locations, in Eastern Europe and Asia
Solutions and pricing is great, the support quality is worse. It will be great to see more locations for servers.
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology & Services Company, 501-1000 employees
We are considering using Vultr to support our search engine that rely on bare-metal infrastructure. Their global presence is an important advantage to support our global distributed business.
We appreciated our experience using Vultr bare-metal, from server creation using Web Console or API that is really straightforward (relying on iPXE) to usage in production that behave smoothly. We also appreciate technical support reactiveness even we did not have so much issues to face until now.
Customer Portal Interface
API
Global Presence
Hardware Specification
Support Reactiveness
Better support integration using mailing
I think it is well suited from global distributed business that are ready to rely on bare-metal hardware to achieve better cost efficiency. Good challenger of major cloud providers but still lack the availability zone model that can reduce their reliability if you need to expose a service achieving an important SLA
Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 1-10 employees
We have a constant need for reliable hosting solutions. We run all kinds of web operations: websites, web services, file services, headless applications, etc. The main issue is always cost. The leading solutions like AWS or Azure are too complex and expensive to set up and maintain if you factor in the maintenance of the actual application we develop and run. Therefore we seek a simpler and more straightforward solution. For a long time, we were relying on Linode. However, we've been seeking an on-par solution for a while now. We tested several options and decided to choose Vultr.
Easy and straightforward UI.
Quick and effortless infrastructure deployment.
Simple and attractive pricing model.
Option to deploy predefined templates with a single click.
Option to pay for the costs with natively transferred cryptocurrencies.
Vultr is best suited to deploy classic web applications, web services, and websites. It's well suited for mid-level traffic but has a wonderful option of expanding the disk storage, making it very well suited to run applications and services that need to consume a lot of data but don't need a lot of computing power. It may not be well suited to run applications that rely on a vast number of web services and require a vast number of data centers.
May 01, 2023
Great hosting provider
We use Vultr for our US and UK servers for our SaaS platform.
Customer service
Uptime and reliability
Price
Hosted MongoDB databases.
The billing portal sometimes doesn’t show invoices on I’ve seen but this isn’t major as they usually show the next day.
It has a great developers API which can speed up provisioning of new servers.
September 09, 2022
Vultr - Reliable and Predicatable
Score
10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We host our customer's websites on Vultr, but Vultr is not our only provider. We use a series of VMs, Database Servers, Block Storage and other services that they have.
Reliable
Good Support
Predictive
Redis is not part of their service yet. But coming soon
Hoping for volume discounts
We are a Web & App Development company and Vultr is a great fit for hosting the applications and websites that we build. The main reason I recommend them is because they are reliable and their service and pricing is competitive and predictable.
September 09, 2022
Great when the server is up, not so great trying to reach support!
Score
4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I have been using Vultr for almost 6 months, over the short time I have used them, I have found that even the most basic support is lacking. One of our WordPress sites had a false positive result from Netcraft as phishing. We immediately tested their finding and found that it was clean. Even Netcraft revised the report that the issue was resolved. What I did not know was that Vultr had sent me additional email saying that they were suspending my VPS with them. Apparently their level of support is to forward any issues along without checking. Now my server is suspended over a holiday weekend and no help from support.
Quick spinup of new servers
Nice dashboard of your running services
Fair price
Almost no active support, only tickets
Ticket processing is very slow and almost non-existant on weekend or holidays
Beware needing any assistance from Vultr over the weekend or holidays. Even for issues they created!
August 04, 2022
Best cloud services
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees
Score
10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
It's very easy to use. The web interface is perfect and very easy to follow. The instances I created run my server are always delivering 100%. I'm a very satisfied customer and I'll recommend others to use it. AH! One more thing. It can be really cheap. For example, for a small application I may around 4-5$ USD per month and that's really really cheap from my point of view.
Extremely easy to use web interface.
Virtual machines are 100% uptime.
It is really cheap.
I love it.
Reserving a DNS takes a lot of time (sometimes).
Anybody who have small to medium side organization or anyone new to server technology can make use this service. It's very effective, scales, elastic and robust. And definitely cheap.
April 04, 2022
Vultr is wonderful for VPS, not so much for Dedicated..
Verified User
General Manager in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees
Score
3 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Short review - Vultr is the best VPS provider in the world by far. 11/10 amazing. A++++. Bare Metal doesn't have an unlimited bandwidth option and runs on the expensive side (unlike their VPS products which are so reasonably priced, 10 of my friends have the $3.50 full web server deal. Incredible (1 core, 512 MB RAM) If the Bare Metal had an unlimited transfer, and better specs, it would be worth the price. However in VPS you will never find a company I have been using Vultr, and Vultr's products for longer than 3 years, but I figured since they won't let me review the cloud compute or the high-performance cloud computes, I am going to anyway, and take a year off of my "experience" according to the site, as I have only been using Bare Metal on one client account, and it's fairly the same. Vultr is by far the best VPS provider in the world, but because of the prices of dedicated servers, and Vultr's strict per core / per dollar rules, I can't say I would recommend a bare-metal server from them. Why? $120 is the STARTING price for bare metal, and we're talking about 4 cores and 8 threads. Anyone who uses dedicated servers knows that for that price you can get a fully managed server, and have the company do most of the heavy lifting. Or for the same price at many competitors like Hivelocity, Reliable site, OVH, Hetzner, you get 16 cores, 32 threads, 64 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD, etc. With Vultr you get 4 cores, 8 threads, 32 GB RAM, 2 x 240 SSD (yikes), and a "10 Gigabit connection". Now if there was ACTUALLY a full speed 10 Gbps connection attached to the bare metal servers, then the value would be incredible as 10 Gbps is usually a $300+ add-on to a server. Trust me, I've bought over 100 dedicated servers and 1000+ VPS machines. I still manage 30 VPS, 3 Dedicated Servers, and an entire basem*nt of a building on Wall Street's actual servers. I know exactly what I am talking about. So let's assume the 10 Gbps is true, and when someone wants to download from your site, they actually DO get 600 MB/s and can download full-length DVDs in 2-3 seconds, you're still limited to 5 TB, which means you can burn through that very quickly if your server is being accessed by many people. Not even many. Let's say you have a file for users to download. If it is 1 GB you could have 5000 downloads. That's not TERRIBLE, but considering even the $800 Bare Metal only goes up to 10 TB, you really don't want to be serving files from it. And that's it for the bad news. Their OS management is 10/10. Their DNS is 10/10. The intuitiveness of the site is 10/10. The level of support received (remember they are unmanaged) I would say is 9/10. Their VPS tools are 10/10. They have tons of server locations, optional ipv6, optional ipv4, additional IPs, extended storage, the fastest DNS I have ever seen propagate, reverse, and primary DNS built-in. 30 Apps to choose from for beginners from WordPress to Drupal to a blank slate. You can choose from any possible configuration from $2.50 for the most basic (can still run a website though!) and goes all the way up to $1000. You get any flavor of Linux or over 40+ apps that can be preinstalled, as I said. The speed of all their servers in terms of CPU, RAM, and SSD, is top of the line, state of the art. I will never ever host a website without them unless it's free.
Speed
Precision
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beginner
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Remove redundancy. Why have 3 things with 1 CPU and 2 GB of RAM? Just let them pick intel or AMD at the end.
Bare Metal costs too much for what it is. $120 for 4 cores is 2010. It's 2022, $189 gets you a fully managed dedicated server with better specs. Plus no unlimited bandwidth option.
March 16, 2022
An evolving infrastructure provider on a great track
Score
9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We started using Vultr for small virtual machines for various tasks but have slowly moved all of our infrastructures over, especially now that bare metal offerings are becoming available at more locations. We have been able to almost completely avoid large cloud providers by switching everything to Vultr.
Powerful & reliable servers
Very diverse product offerings and locations
Awesome pricing
Constantly improving their offerings and services
Object & Block storage in more locations would be very helpful
There should not be a charge for reserved IPs in use
Vultr is very well suited for development workloads and workloads that may require a diverse group of locations. For production workloads, if the region you're looking to invest in has availability, it will be great. We're running both our development and production workloads on Vultr currently. Unfortunately for us, we chose one of their least available locations as a home base which has made it very challenging to expand within the region.
Update to review:
Availability was an issue until the surprise announcement of the new Optimized Compute. It appears now that they were not restocking the hardware we were using as they intended to replace it.
March 10, 2022
My first choice when I need reliable deployment
Score
10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I discover Vultr in 2015 after using some resources from DigitalOcean. Since that, Vultr is my main partner in deployment in several scenarios. For me, they are the best choice, over other options like DigitalOcean, Linode, whatever. Easy to manage, has strong support and their data centers are well distributed.
localisation of their data centers
easy control panel
affordable prices
maybe more options to work with some kind of CMS
Well suited in affordable prices, easy control panel and documentations
March 03, 2022
Good for Game Servers
Score
10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Using the server as a Game & Web Server, love the fact that it's a shared server and it never feels like your server is being impacted by other servers or yours is impacting theirs. Love that the server farm is local and provides low latency connections.
low latency
local
easy to deploy
Price
Complete flexibly with lots of OS options. Running a full version of Server 2012, and all related apps and services are working as expected. Love the option for the core count, but hate the price I am paying for it. It is much easier to manage compared to AWS EC2 that I was running prior.
February 22, 2022
Simply the best, offers what it promises with multiple server locations to choose from.
Editor In Chief
Tech Point Magazine (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)
Vultr Servers are steadily reliable, and super-fast, I have used them for 2 years now, and I have no regrets, I have tried other providers, but they'll never offer the same support as Vultr in case things don't work out. I must say, these folks are the best in not just Bare Metal, but also the Cloud Compute Servers they offer.
Super Fast
Highly Reliable
Easy to Scale and Manage
Increase on the Offered Monthly Network Cap
It's good if you're into hosting fast framework web and mobile applications based on my experience. And comfortably the best since it offers affordable plans for all server types aside from easy scalability on the instances.
December 11, 2021
The perfect storage solution for most startups!
We use Vultr Block Storage with our virtual machine powered by Vultr and it allowed us to solve the storage issue because it connects with our existing computer instant[ly], and it's scalable so we can add more space as we grow which is awesome. We don't have to pay for resources that we don't need because we can scale only when it's necessary.
Scalability
Reliability
Super fast
The only suggestion I have is adding more data centers to choose from.
I would definitely recommend Vultr Block Storage to anybody considering it because it's very reliable and scalable and it's the best choice for a lot of growing startups like ours. I would also recommend it to anyone looking for a cheaper alternative to AWS because in my opinion is the best switch they could make.
November 24, 2021
Excellent performance and reliability for a fair price
We use Vultr Block Storage along with our VM's to host our company websites. The price is cheaper than any other provider and has been really reliable. Running VM's on top of Vultr has allowed us to host our websites with more control and given us the performance we can't get anywhere else.
Cheap
Fast
Reliable
Would be nice to have more data centers
Would be nice to have more speed options per data center
Vultr Block Storage is great for adding VM's to host websites. We have moved all our main websites to Vultr because of the speed, cost, and reliability they provide. If you need to have data in many data centers then you might be better moving to AWS or Azure
July 07, 2021
Vultr - Does what it promises
Verified User
Director in Engineering
E-Learning Company, 11-50 employees
As our main product is an education platform, we need to host the website. The site being a heavyweight application, I can't use typical hosting. So we bought VPS from Vultr. Vultr is one of the best in the market according to our need because our platform is non-profit, so we can't afford big servers all month long, so we needed resizing facility. But Vultr didn't give us the flexibility to resize servers when the load increases. Soon we had to shift to another provider
Uptime
Hosting
Reasonable Pricing
Resizing
Dashboard
Customer support
If you are a large organization where you have a lot of traffics in your web app, Vultr Bare Metalis good for you. If your scenario is something like, you sometimes have high traffic, and sometimes low traffic, Azure might not be the best choice if you want to cut your cost.