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uh oh. I suddenly feel nervous about the roughly $80 of vultr credit I have left from their 2014 launch double-credit offer.
Well, in the FAQ at the bottom of the page, they do say:
"Does my match promotion credit expire?
Yes. Any unused promotional credit will expire 12 months after issuance."
So there would be little point in trying to get $100 in matching credit unless you wanted to spend a lot on Vultr services in the first year.
Yes, but they don't explain how the book-keeping works. You don't know (unless you ask them) when your $100 is spent or when theirs is spent. I might expect that if I seed with $100, and then spend $100 dollars the first year in VPS fees, then I might think that I took advantage of the match... because one might think that it would have used the matched credit first... personally I think it is confusing... but clear once I asked them.
They do, on the given page:
Perhaps I'm missing something, but doesn't the following entry in the FAQ clear this up?
"How is the match credit applied to my account?
Credit is applied on a 50/50 basis. If your hourly accrued balance is $10, $5 will be deducted from promotional credit, and $5 will be deducted from real funds."
O, yes I finally see it on their FAQ... doh!
@Amitz beat me to it by two minutes!
and catching a 3.6ghz cpu on 250cent plan is the best feeling!
Do you, by any chance, have made any version of win 2016 (not 2012) works on Vultr?
Looks like there's some new (March 2017) coupons that are better than last month's, but for new signups only as far as I can tell. Meh.
No! But it's easy to made.
I only received 2.4ghz instances of 2.5USD
, All in Los Angeles, CA
I do but I'll have to dig it out again
lol I refuse to let go of my 3.6ghz plan that I have from so long ago
I plan to fish a little in AMS, if I ever need it.
Wonder if there's a mix of cpu types at any given location. Also the 3.6 ghz machines are likely to have fewer cores, thus more sensitivity to noisy neighbor workloads.
pff edit, my mistake
Location?
This one is on NJ
Anyone notice the $2.50 VPS IP's are all Geolocated to NY, while $5+ VPS IP's are all Geolocated correctly?
Well, I have a $2.50 Vultr VPS at their Paris location and the IPv4 is correctly geolocated to Paris.
Maybe it's a case by case basis? I had 3 of the $2.5 plans (Create Destroy Create Destroy....) and two of them was geolocated correctly (JP) and one was geolocated in the U.S.(Dont remember exact location). But all of them gave the same ping so wasn't that big of a issue.
damn
might destroy a deploy a few more and try some other IPs
Yep it's a luck of the draw, I remember getting the same results when creating multiple $5 boxes in Japan some time ago.
OK, so destroyed a rebuilt 9 times, but finally got an IP GeeLocated correctly.
Presumably, Vultr can't predict in advance how many IPs they will need in each location, and so sometimes (often?) they will grab an IP from another location, if necessary. It's also possible that their higher-priced plans are more often assigned IPs that are geolocated correctly than their lower-priced plans. (But who knows.)
That's not how it (BGP and routing) works. They have a set of ranges semi-permanently assigned to a location, for Japan some of those are APAC region IPs, some had to be reused from somewhere else. Any changes to this may happen in chunks of a /24 at least, and in a matter of ~hours. It's not like they can reroute a single IP from New York instantly when you want to create a VPS.
Thanks for this clarification. (I've never been on the other side of IPs.)
So I guess that what @bohdans was experiencing was IPs reused from New York (in advance, not instantly).
Caption contest anybody?
meh... a real temptation..