[talk] YAPS - Yet Another Provider Survey

[Charles Sprickman]

> On Apr 23, 2025, at 1:03 PM, George Rosamond <george at ceetonetechnology.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Weird, I guess I really lucked out? I use the NJ (DuPont?/QTS?) datacenter mostly.

One is a jumphost/VPN endpoint for my daily work, so I'd certainly notice any network weirdness on that one.

Also have 2 in AMS and one in Seattle.


> I imagine the timeline of issues is connected to their acquisition:
> 
> https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/vultr-holdings-llc

Maybe I'm blind, but I don't see any acquisition here, just more VC funding.

I am a little bit sad to see all the AI junk being pushed whenever I login.

C

> 
>> 
>> 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
>> -------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> talk mailing list
>>> talk at lists.nycbug.org
>>> https://lists.nycbug.org:8443/mailman/listinfo/talk
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> talk mailing list
>> talk at lists.nycbug.org
>> https://lists.nycbug.org:8443/mailman/listinfo/talk
> 
> _______________________________________________
> talk mailing list
> talk at lists.nycbug.org
> https://lists.nycbug.org:8443/mailman/listinfo/talk