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Chupacabra
This! They need it to empty your credit card if your vps is used to send spam. I suppose you've read their use policy/spam policy properly.
Have fun with that if your vultr vps gets compromised and is used to send spam. If a company can resort to replicating other brand and false advertising for financial benefits, it can stoop to any level to gain profit. This doesn't look like a professional company with 18 years in the industry and 10's of thousands of servers, this looks like an unscrupulous host who is reeling for easy money. Don't give them any credit card authorization/copy of your credit card. If you do so, be prepared to empty your credit card for "free credits and false advertising that this mediocre vps provider offered to reel you in".
Absolutely! Why would anybody want a restricted vps from vultr when there are plenty of better providers in the market who give full access to vps without any restrictions.
Tokyo has stock guys!
Why do their Tokyo location IPs have Choopa's US location
Because APNIC is dry and APNIC IPs are expensive.
Ticket response:
okay
They just added Tokyo! I added $50 ($100) and going to test it now
Note: transfer is 10x less
Great! I just deployed a Tokyo node as well!
Finally, Tokyo! added $50 (doubled to $100).
Tokyo has 1/10 bandwidth of other locations, sooo sad
Please bear that bandwidth in Asia is extremely expensive~
Not by 10x. Makes me want to use AWS Tokyo instead given how it's priced.
Actually, x10 is VERY realistic for Asia.
EU/US BW sells at around 1USD/1EUR per Mbit - Cheapest option in Asia (HE in SG/HK, bad network) costs 7$/Mbit (on offers 5$/Mbit), any better provider (like larger HK ISPs) run at 10-20$/Mbit, good providers (regional Tier2s with i.e. PCCW and NTT) 30-40$, the monopolies (like the Korean telco conglomerate or Phillipines) 60-80$ and pure China BW without congestion (via PCCW or direct, pricing not much different - PCCW is just easier available) 100-120$/mbit.
Well, let's see... SG > US > JP. I think you-get-what-you-pay applies as usual.
This is easy to repeat without much thinking, but consider what they now have to compete against in the Asian VPS space:
So with all this, just 100 GB of b/w with a huge overage fee unfortunately does not look impressive and "but Asia" is not an excuse.
@rm_ so just because some people like selling below cost, vultr should too "because they must compete"? I don't think so
As we say here, there are passengers for every train.
You may have a case against DO, but I don't see how ALL of those I listed are suddenly "selling below cost" and yet successfully operate for years.
@rm_ probably because they have other far more profitable locations that can make them money. So if you have a service with them in a cheap location like Europe or the US you are likely subsidising customers with a presence in other locations (Asia).
To be fair, what an AVERAGE VPS user uses, they easily profit on their $5/mo. However, vultr isn't as old a company, so they don't have the experience in identifying average usage.
So? Vultr has "12" locations too. And no, many from the list don't, e.g. all those local JP and SG providers.
anyone ever buy a VPS Servers JP in Vultr ?
How speedtest server ?
203.208.178.206 and 203.208.173.130 are both singtel endpoints. Unless I'm misreading it, those two specific sjc.llnw seem to be on the western side of the submarine cable.
Singtel is way too large to consider peering with LLNW in their home market, so the only paths that realistically do exist are either HKIX / CoreSite or Eqx in SJC.
HKIX is usually congested as far as Singtel's ports go -- so it went to the only place it can go.
Bear in mind that Singtel has pops in JPIX, and both LLNW / NTT are members there too.
Though, that said -- I don't fault them for 100GBing the allocation; it's fair.
Yes those are singtel points but they are physically located in the US.
Just checking back in. Did it kill DO yet?
It's good to see them add locations now, but their DDoS protection is still nonexistent.
New feature at VULTR: Big storage plans:
Can we get this thread deleted please?