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Vultr New Free Plan

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  • doghouchdoghouch Member
    edited March 2023

    @JerryHou said:
    tried 3 credit cards, all declined...??? guess no luck for me.

    If the cards were from relatively new or obscure banks, their BIN codes could be misclassified/out of date. (I have no clue how Vultr is detecting between prepaid/credit/debit, though)

    Given that it's a free "early access" program, you're probably OOL :-(

  • hyperblasthyperblast Member
    edited March 2023

    @TrK said:

    @JerryHou said:
    tried 3 credit cards, all declined...??? guess no luck for me.

    Go with paypal, vultr has some issues with credit card processing.

    "PayPal may not be used with this promo."

    Visa and Mastercard both Debit - "Linking denied for this card. Please deposit an amount of $5 or greater."

    Thanked by 1greentea
  • chenbo5201987chenbo5201987 Member

    Has anyone been successful in their application? I also submitted my application and it hasn't been approved yet

    Thanked by 1greentea
  • loayloay Member

    @chenbo5201987 said: Has anyone been successful in their application? I also submitted my application and it hasn't been approved yet

    Nothing yet

  • angstromangstrom Moderator

    @chenbo5201987 said:
    Has anyone been successful in their application? I also submitted my application and it hasn't been approved yet

    One can only imagine that there are many thousands of applicants

    Congrats on your first post in 2023

  • MaouniqueMaounique Host Rep, Veteran

    I was thinking about applying, never had a vm with vultr, it just sounds like a knee-jerk joke, but after reading the level of hoops needed to pass through I give up, even as it has IPv6 and is under 1 GB plus 2 TB traffic which ticks all my boxes regarding a cool LEB.

    Thanked by 1greentea
  • CyberneticTitanCyberneticTitan Member
    edited March 2023

    My free tier request was just approved.

    All I did was I signed up on release and used their $250 credit for a day.

    Thanked by 2greentea farsighter
  • g519g519 Member

    I just got the email and approved as well..

    Thanked by 1greentea
  • bruh21bruh21 Member, Host Rep 
    Dear Customer,

Congratulations, your application to the Vultr Free Tier program has been approved!

Details regarding Free Tier program access for your account can be found here https://my.vultr.com/settings/#settingsfreetier.

More information about the Free tier program can be found here https://www.vultr.com/free-tier-program/#faqs

Thank you for choosing Vultr.com!
    Thanked by 2raindog308 greentea
  • dosaidosai Member

    Mine got through as well yay

  • g519g519 Member

    Miami, Florida only one to accept the free? Or maybe its a case by case basis by user.

  • vmwizvmwiz Member

    I just got my confirmation a few minutes ago. This will make a nice DNS server.

    Thanked by 1farsighter
  • Otus9051Otus9051 Member

    @bruh21 said:

    Dear Customer,

Congratulations, your application to the Vultr Free Tier program has been approved!

Details regarding Free Tier program access for your account can be found here https://my.vultr.com/settings/#settingsfreetier.

More information about the Free tier program can be found here https://www.vultr.com/free-tier-program/#faqs

Thank you for choosing Vultr.com!

    also got invited -- cant seem to find the free instance option?

    Thanked by 1greentea
  • sh97sh97 Member

    Got invited, looks like it's like AWS - one year free per the email.
    But not able to find the free instance option :(

    Thanked by 1greentea
  • VoidVoid Member

    I think they are approving in bulk now.

    Your Free Tier starts on 2023-03-09 and will end on 2024-03-09. During that year, you will be able to launch a Free Tier instance. You can only have 1 free instance running at a time. If you shut down the instance you can relaunch it up to twice per month.

    Thanked by 1greentea
  • bruh21bruh21 Member, Host Rep
    edited March 2023

    The free tier deploy locations for me are Miami, Seattle, and Frankfurt.

    @Otus9051 said:

    @bruh21 said:

    Dear Customer,

Congratulations, your application to the Vultr Free Tier program has been approved!

Details regarding Free Tier program access for your account can be found here https://my.vultr.com/settings/#settingsfreetier.

More information about the Free tier program can be found here https://www.vultr.com/free-tier-program/#faqs

Thank you for choosing Vultr.com!

    also got invited -- cant seem to find the free instance option?

    go to deploy and make sure you select "cloud compute" and then "regular". It is only available in certain locations it seems

    Thanked by 1greentea
  • Otus9051Otus9051 Member
    edited March 2023

    @bruh21 said:
    The free tier deploy locations for me are Miami, Seattle, and Frankfurt.

    @Otus9051 said:

    @bruh21 said:

    Dear Customer,

Congratulations, your application to the Vultr Free Tier program has been approved!

Details regarding Free Tier program access for your account can be found here https://my.vultr.com/settings/#settingsfreetier.

More information about the Free tier program can be found here https://www.vultr.com/free-tier-program/#faqs

Thank you for choosing Vultr.com!

    also got invited -- cant seem to find the free instance option?

    go to deploy and make sure you select "cloud compute" and then "regular". It is only available in certain locations it seems

    which location?

    found one on Seattle

    Thanked by 1greentea
  • CyberneticTitanCyberneticTitan Member
    edited March 2023

    Under https://my.vultr.com/settings/#settingsfreetier we see:

    You were approved for early access to the Free Tier Program.

    Your Free Tier starts on 2023-03-09 and will end on 2024-03-09.

    During that year, you will be able to launch a Free Tier instance. You can only have 1 free instance running at a time. If you shut down the instance you can relaunch it up to twice per month.

    The free instance can be deployed on the instance deploy page under:
    Cloud Compute > Regular > Free Instance

    Looks like it lasts only a year? Hope it's just part of their early access thing.

    So far it seems like you can only allocate the free tier instance in Miami, Seattle, and Frankfurt.

    Thanked by 1greentea
  • tr0gd0rtr0gd0r Member

    It also only applies to certain OSes. For example I could provision one in Seattle with Debian, but its not available for Arch or Ubuntu

    Thanked by 2farsighter martheen
  • NeoonNeoon Community Contributor, Veteran
    edited March 2023

    @g519 said:
    Miami, Florida only one to accept the free? Or maybe its a case by case basis by user.

    Seattle and Frankfurt too, but that's it.

  • bruh21bruh21 Member, Host Rep

    @CyberneticTitan said: Looks like it lasts only a year?

    this is an early access. perhaps they will extend it, but i have doubts

  • Otus9051Otus9051 Member

    Installing. YABS soon.

  • TrKTrK Member

    Got the confirmation as well. The free tier VMs are available only on Frankfurt, Miami and Seattle Locations. I think i will go with Frankfurt.

  • NeoonNeoon Community Contributor, Veteran

    7.64Gbit/s Send Speed, uwu.

  • Otus9051Otus9051 Member

    @Neoon said:
    7.64Gbit/s Send Speed, uwu.

    uwu.

  • NeoonNeoon Community Contributor, Veteran

    @Otus9051 said:

    @Neoon said:
    7.64Gbit/s Send Speed, uwu.

    uwu.

    Edit: 10.5Gbit/s Send Speed.

  • Otus9051Otus9051 Member

    @TrK said:
    Got the confirmation as well. The free tier VMs are available only on Frankfurt, Miami and Seattle Locations. I think i will go with Frankfurt.

    didn't check frankfurt, i needed an EU vps for my ASN. I'll stick to Seattle i guess.

  • CyberneticTitanCyberneticTitan Member

    Obligatory YABS in Seattle:

    GB6 and GB4 both failed to run.

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#              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
#                     v2023-02-27                    #
# https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
# ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #

Thu 09 Mar 2023 05:27:42 PM UTC

Basic System Information:
---------------------------------
Uptime     : 0 days, 0 hours, 1 minutes
Processor  : Intel Xeon Processor (Skylake, IBRS)
CPU cores  : 1 @ 2593.904 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM        : 473.3 MiB
Swap       : 0.0 KiB
Disk       : 9.3 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Kernel     : 5.10.0-21-amd64
VM Type    : MICROSOFT

Basic Network Information:
---------------------------------
Protocol   : IPv6
ISP        : The Constant Company
ASN        : AS20473 The Constant Company, LLC
Host       : Vultr Holdings, LLC
Location   : Seattle, Washington (WA)
Country    : United States

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
---------------------------------
Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 73.58 MB/s   (18.3k) | 155.65 MB/s   (2.4k)
Write      | 73.77 MB/s   (18.4k) | 156.47 MB/s   (2.4k)
Total      | 147.35 MB/s  (36.8k) | 312.12 MB/s   (4.8k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 189.08 MB/s    (369) | 224.28 MB/s    (219)
Write      | 199.13 MB/s    (388) | 239.22 MB/s    (233)
Total      | 388.21 MB/s    (757) | 463.50 MB/s    (452)

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 865 Mbits/sec   | 1.48 Gbits/sec  | 134 ms
Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | busy            | 3.42 Gbits/sec  | 147 ms
NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | busy            | 1.45 Gbits/sec  | 141 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 422 Mbits/sec   | 1.80 Gbits/sec  | 227 ms
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 2.07 Gbits/sec  | 3.37 Gbits/sec  | 59.1 ms
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 2.64 Gbits/sec  | 3.98 Gbits/sec  | 56.6 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | busy            | 4.20 Gbits/sec  | 33.4 ms

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
---------------------------------
Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed      | Ping
-----           | -----                     | ----            | ----            | ----
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 920 Mbits/sec   | 342 Mbits/sec   | 134 ms
Scaleway        | Paris, FR (10G)           | 856 Mbits/sec   | 4.56 Gbits/sec  | 142 ms
NovoServe       | North Holland, NL (40G)   | 835 Mbits/sec   | 1.28 Gbits/sec  | 141 ms
Uztelecom       | Tashkent, UZ (10G)        | 496 Mbits/sec   | 2.65 Gbits/sec  | 227 ms
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 2.36 Gbits/sec  | 3.13 Gbits/sec  | 58.8 ms
Clouvider       | Dallas, TX, US (10G)      | 2.67 Gbits/sec  | 3.63 Gbits/sec  | 56.6 ms
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 4.37 Gbits/sec  | 4.17 Gbits/sec  | 33.4 ms
    Thanked by 1loay
  • Otus9051Otus9051 Member

    actually i dont want to exhaust my bw

  • sh97sh97 Member 
    Speedtest by Ookla

      Server: Netprotect - Frankfurt (id: 37567)
         ISP: Choopa, LLC
Idle Latency:     0.31 ms   (jitter: 0.01ms, low: 0.29ms, high: 0.33ms)
    Download: 12372.09 Mbps (data used: 11.2 GB)
                  8.13 ms   (jitter: 2.67ms, low: 0.69ms, high: 22.76ms)
      Upload:  8348.79 Mbps (data used: 11.6 GB)
                  1.13 ms   (jitter: 0.81ms, low: 0.32ms, high: 14.44ms)
 Packet Loss: Not available.

    WOW!

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