Vultr

Score6.5 out of 10

37 Reviews and Ratings

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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Screenshot of Vultr's control panel helps users spend less time managing infrastructure.

Screenshot of Vultr's services offer additional configuration and inside of the simplified control panel.

Screenshot of a display of when peak activity happens on an application. The server health graphs provide insight from the moment the server is created.

Screenshot of Vultr's interface, which allows users to deploy high performance servers worldwide from any device.

Screenshot of how to reach the 24/7/365 technical support team that is available through Vultr's ticketing system.

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Screenshot of Vultr's control panel helps users spend less time managing infrastructure.

Security controls
Compliance with security protocols like SSL and AES
Category average: 8.1
Operating system support
Range of operating systems available as pre-configured images
Category average: 7.9
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
The service uptime as a percentage defined in the SLA
Category average: 8.6

Dynamic scaling
Ease of scaling up or down in response to customer needs
Category average: 8.2
Automation
Automation of administrative tasks
Category average: 7.7
Monitoring tools
Monitoring tools provide alerts when problems are detected
Category average: 7.9

Verified User

Team Lead in Engineering (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

i use Vultr to run web servers. Vultr servers are more powerful than other options (better performing) at a better price. the servers are usually servers running ubuntu, with nginx, mysql, and php software. i have found Vultr to be extremely reliable for our use case and have migrated many of our workloads to the platform.

Pros

great price
great performance
excellent api

Cons

control panel isn't great compared to DO
kubernetes can improve with monitoring
better api performance - was slow/problematic with k8s

Return on Investment

saved me money
gave better performing infrastructure
better region availability than others

Alternatives Considered

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Cloudflare and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Other Software Used

DigitalOcean Droplets, Cloudflare, DigitalOcean Spaces

Ben Brown View profile

Enterprise Security Solutions Architect in Information Technology at 31337ITSolutions.com (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Vultr to host multiple clients, across industries. They have top tier support, stable , reliable hosting and the price is right. I've been in the IT industry for over 30 years, and I have had experience with or used almost every hosting company. So far Vultr has been the best all around experience and I have been with them for over 5 years.

Pros

Email hosting is viable because they maintain a clean IP reputation.
They have an easy to use platform with console access.
They offer many useful OS choices to fit any project.
The price is fair and affordable.
They offer VPC for large projects.
I have never experienced down time, so the network is stable and well maintained.
Responsive and helpful support.

Cons

Paid higher tier support might be helpful to some people.
VPN services could be useful for some customers that meet specific criteria, or for vpc access.
WAF services could be a good idea to compete with other industries.

Return on Investment

received money in comparison to other platforms
they have a clean IP reputation which makes it easy and effective to host email services
they have stable and well supported infrastructure
they have responsive and knowledgeable support

Alternatives Considered

Rackspace Managed Hosting, AWS Managed Services, DigitalOcean, GoDaddy and Namecheap

Other Software Used

Docker, pfSense

Brian Johnson

Business Owner in Engineering at KABB Solutions (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a web agency, I need great hardware to support my customer's web sites. We use Wordpress, leveraging GridPane, and Vultr has been the standard go to for our VPS needs. Our clients range from small to large, and we need to have the ability to scale our servers accordingly. Vultr makes this a dream to work with.

Since I also need to monitor all my servers, I can house a prometheus server in Vultr as well, keeping my entire system within one eco system.

Pros

Good performance from servers close to me and my customers
Ease of spinning up new servers
Great service levels of servers I spin up
Notifications of issues or downtime come through quickly, allowing me to handle client queries with knowledge in hand.

Cons

There have been times where my VPS is affected by a noisy nieghbour. Would be good to have this actively monitored and mitigated.
Being based in South Africa, it would be nice to have pricing parity options for weaker countries (even if for lower level servers). Sometimes I need throw away or temporary servers, but USD 5 is still expensive in weaker currencies, and can stack up quickly.

Return on Investment

Moving from Cloudways to Vultr (with GridPane) has saved us over $100 per month.
Placing servers near customer's clients is invaluable. Customers notice.
Wordpress performance on Vultr servers is great. We've had reduced TTFB from Cloudways in the region of 60-80%.

Alternatives Considered

Akamai Connected Cloud, DigitalOcean and Cloudways

Other Software Used

WordPress, Prometheus, Zoho One, Google Workspace

Stephen Honor View profile

Chief Information Officer in Corporate at This Host Ltd (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

A number of my companies have bare metal machines with Vultr. It's one of the best companies I have seen that support this for a reasonable price, which allows us to offer a great service at a reasonable price to our customers and clients.

Its likely we'll move additional services there as they have since released a number of services that will help us in our core goals.

Pros

Bare metal servers
Great pricing
Support

Cons

A better control panel with more stats/data about the servers you're running

Return on Investment

Vultr are core to our service offerings

Alternatives Considered

DigitalOcean, Amazon Web Services and Scaleway

Other Software Used

Amazon Web Services, DigitalOcean, Scaleway

Mark Tenney

CEO/Founder in Corporate at Digital Church (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Vultr to host hundreds of wordpress websites using GridPane. They have the fastest servers and incredibly responsive support teams.

Pros

Fast Hosting
Responsive Support
Competitive Pricing

Cons

There's nothing I would change!

Return on Investment

Since switching to Vultr, I've seen more stable websites and focus on new clients as a result.

Alternatives Considered

UpCloud and Vercel

Other Software Used

Asana, Craft, Everhour

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Microsoft Azure

DigitalOcean

Akamai Cloud Computing

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Security controls

Operating system support

Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime

Areas for Improvement

Dynamic scaling

Automation

Monitoring tools

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