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Nope, x2 the monthly rate is simply not true. Maybe in some entrerprise service, but you can pay the 3.5$ ssd vps hourly or monthly and it costs exactly the same, why would they charge you twice?
The 40$ deposit is not required. If those things were true I would not be with ovh.
Can't argue with that
And I was proud of 2GB for 15$ yearly, I envy you!
No ? Look at the bottom.
Looking at the price list I see that hourly is 2x monthly. Do you see something different? Do you have hourly instances and if yes, how much do you pay for them?
Looking now, I see you can choose between making a $40 deposit and leaving a cc# on file to charge stuff against. That's reasonable and I don't remember seeing the cc# option before: it might be new, or I might have missed it. Anyway that makes things easier.
That's what kept me from trying it out was the $40 deposit, so now you can just link a credit card instead?
It looks that way to me.
Or if you have an OVH account already you don't need the $40 or link a CC.
Well, that was like this for me back then.
wow I'm too tempted to switch from DO to Vultr. is Vultr good for production use?
Anything is good for production use if you follow the rule of 3.
3 locations with 3 providers in 3 countries.
Because of these $2.50 instances you mean? You can only have two of them (see further up) so that's not much of a server fleet. In other regards I think most ppl here see Vultr, DO, and Linode as roughly equivalent, modulo some small differences.
I have an OVH account with a running VPS, and had a couple dedis on it in the past. But it still says I have to put up $40 or link a CC to spin up a cloud server, plus accept a supplemental TOS.
Same when i tested and benchmarked their OVH Public Cloud VPS https://community.centminmod.com/threads/ovh-public-cloud-servers.5280/ had to add US$39 deposit there back in Dec 2015 and link to CC. Not sure if it's same now.
Actually, the abuse risk is very high when the customer can spin servers for an hour and then move to next IP. I totally understand the barrier, it is more or less what we ask.
I don't remember ever seeing a deposit requirement from any other host. It now looks like OVH required it in the past, but has since relaxed it to letting you run stuff with no deposit if you have a linked CC.
Vutr = Linode (mod DO)
DO = Vultr (mod Linode)
DO must just set 256-512 Mb to $2 and provide 2Tb traffic per month then win a battle
I knew my middle school trigonometry would pay off one day.
yeah, show the link or shut up
Told, it was NEW year offer on December, no longer available, but still valid for those who on board.
You're a step ahead of me -- I'm still trying to figure out how "mod" relates to sine and cosine!
I use both DO and vultr for production. But more services on Vultr recently. I would recommend it. Vultr provides credit match up to $100 for new accounts, which is a good deal, effectively lowing the price 1/2 for the first year or months.
But be aware how the book keeping works for matched credit. For every dollar that is spent, 1/2 is taken out of your "real" funds and 1/2 is taken out of the "credit" funds. And the credit funds expire in a year (at least for the $100 match program). So, figure out what you want to spend in a year, and be aware of how they do the book-keeping and you should be all set.
That is very interesting! I was not aware of how they handle it...
Yep, I just asked support this question this morning, so I figured other people would want to know. Here is their exact wording:
This mod can barely relate...(rimshot!)
I was trying to think of math where you know 2 and can compute 3...
OK, OK, I admit I got an A in trig and don't remember any of it.
One must admit that the Vultr way of handling those "match credits" is well documented here under FAQ: https://www.vultr.com/match/
I assume that is a joke... lol
No, seriously - I was expecting my "favorite" provider to hide those terms very well and am pleasantly surprised that they do not. I am always quick when it comes to criticism concerning Vultr, so I felt I also have to admit when they surprise me positively.
Although one has to travel far in this thread to see a clear and presently valid statement about Vultr credit, this is (finally) useful.
But what it does not say is that if you seed it with $100 and they match $100, but you only actually spend $75 in the first year, you then loose out on a big chunk of money they matched you.