[talk] YAPS - Yet Another Provider Survey

[George Rosamond]

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
> jcv at netpurgatory.com
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> 
> 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 <jpb at 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.
>>
>>
>>
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