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Vultr Review

Posted on by admin in Hosting

About Vultr

Vultr is a VPS provider which offers KVM VPSes in 14 locations, all with pure SSDs and 10Gbit connections. They also allow hourly-billing and custom ISOs. On top of this, they use only Intel E3 and E5 CPUs and will allow you to use the full core, so they are perfect for running game servers, etc.

They have 8 locations in the US (Seattle, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, Miami, New Jersey), 4 locations in Europe (England/UK, France, Germany, Netherlands) and 2 locations in Asia/Pacific (Japan, Australia).

A huge advantage Vultr has over Digital Ocean, and other competitors is they allow custom ISOs, so you can install Windows (you will need to integrate VirtIO drivers however, so see my guide here on how to do that).

Note: Vultr currently has a $20 free credit offer which you can see here

Speed Tests

Here are some speed tests from a server in each location (US, Europe and Asia). Each server is the lowest plan Vultr offer (was $5/month, now $2.50/month) and running Debian 7 (x64)

New York, USA speedtest

Vultr Speedtest USA

Speedtest to New York, America

Paris, France speedtest

Vultr Speedtest France

Speedtest to Paris, France

Tokyo, Japan speedtest

Speedtest Vultr Japan

Speedtest to Fussa, Japan

FreeVPS Benchmarks

Here are some benchmarks using the FreeVPS bench.sh script. Each server is the lowest plan Vultr offer (was $5/month, now $2.50/month for 512MB) and running Debian 7 (x64)

New York, USA benchmark

CPU model : Virtual CPU e7da7129d3ee
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 2399.996 MHz
Total amount of ram : 748 MB
Total amount of swap : 0 MB
System uptime : 16 min,
Download speed from CacheFly: 83.4MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 5.94MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 6.66MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 2.04MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 3.01MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 31.2MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 1.40MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 5.11MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 4.62MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 31.6MB/s
I/O speed : 417 MB/s

France benchmark

CPU model : Virtual CPU e7da7129d3ee
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 2399.996 MHz
Total amount of ram : 748 MB
Total amount of swap : 0 MB
System uptime : 32 min,
Download speed from CacheFly: 20.9MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 1.86MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 3.02MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 1.20MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 12.9MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 3.73MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 1.39MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 2.48MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 2.28MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 3.86MB/s
I/O speed : 440 MB/s

Japan benchmark

CPU model : Virtual CPU e7da7129d3ee
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 2399.996 MHz
Total amount of ram : 748 MB
Total amount of swap : 0 MB
System uptime : 35 min,
Download speed from CacheFly: 229MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 1.79MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 2.46MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 100MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 993KB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 3.08MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 4.52MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 3.52MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 3.29MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 2.14MB/s
I/O speed : 197 MB/s

Support

I have never needed support from Vultr so I can’t comment on this, but plenty of people are happy with them.

Conclusion

Vultr is a great host, with plenty of features, an amazing choice of locations, and the performance is great. If you want to run something that’s CPU intensive (virtual desktop, game server, etc.) or Windows, then this is a great option.

Ramnode coupon code (10% off) – March 2017

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About Ramnode

Ramnode is an extremely high quality host which offers both OpenVZ and KVM VPSes. Their plans start at just $15/year for a 128MB VPS with either 12GB storage space (SSD) or 80GB (SSD cached)

They have 4 locations in the US (New York City, Atlanta, Seattle, Los Angeles) and an EU location (Netherlands) as well.

I have two VPSes with them myself, one is just a development box (SSD) and the other is a backup box (SSD-cached) which as of right now has 206 days uptime.

Before signing up, I have written a review of Ramnode (including speedtests and benchmarks) which you can read here

Coupon

Right now, Ramnode a coupon code which can be used on any VPS (both OpenVZ and KVM)

The codes even work for existing customers!

Click here to visit Ramnode and use the coupon code SSD10 for 10% off any new VPS!

Why Ramnode is the best VPS provider (a Ramnode review)

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About Ramnode

Whenever someone asks me to recommend a VPS host, my first recommendation is nearly always Ramnode.

They offer both OpenVZ and KVM plans, and have 5 different locations. 4 in the US (New York City, Atlanta, Seattle, Los Angeles) and an EU location (Netherlands).

The main reasons I (and many others) recommend Ramnode is because the performance and support are simply unbeatable, especially at the prices they offer.

Note: Ramnode currently has a 15% off coupon which you can see here

Speed Tests

Here are some speedtests from Ramnode’s 128MB OpenVZ SSD plan located in the Netherlands. Naturally, the further away the speedtest server, the lower the results are going to be. So if your target traffic was in the US, you would of course be better off choosing from on of their US locations.

Ramnode Speedtest Netherlands

Speedtest to Amsterdam, Netherlands

Ramnode Speedtest England

Speedtest to London, England

Ramnode Speedtest Italy

Speedtest to Milan, Italy

Ramnode Speedtest USA

Speedtest to New York, America

Ramnode Speedtest India

Speedtest to New Delhi, India

FreeVPS Benchmark

CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 V2 @ 3.30GHz
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency : 3300.209 MHz
Total amount of ram : 128 MB
Total amount of swap : 64 MB
System uptime : 59 days, 18:03,
Download speed from CacheFly: 85.0MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 13.9MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 25.0MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 8.29MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, Rotterdam, NL: 108MB/s
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 92.5MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 10.7MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 23.5MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 22.0MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 36.4MB/s
I/O speed : 638 MB/s

Support

Another area where Ramnode shows why it’s number one is the support times. The support are extremely quick and very helpful. Here is a low-priority ticket from when I simply wanted to get my VPS changed from an SSD-cached plan to an SSD plan.

Ramnode Support Response Times

Ramnode Support Response Tmes

You can see how even just for a low-priority request (not even an incident) they reply extremely quickly and the request is completed within 8 minutes of my confirmation.

Conclusion

As you can see above, even with their cheapest $15/year plan the performance is amazing. And with Ramnode, you can expect this kind of performance on every single node, in every single location.

There’s also no need to just take my word for it, have a look on Google, WebHostingTalk, LowEndTalk, etc. and you will see nothing but praise for Ramnode.

Well done Nick + staff!