14 best alternatives to Vultr as of 2018 - Slant

RamNode

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Cheap

Ramnode is a very cheap VPS provider. With its cheapest plan being only $15/yr for 128MB of RAM. Which is not much but for a small website not expecting a lot of traffic is pretty good. Plus, not many other VPS providers offer this kind of option. See More

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Doesn't give you many advanced functionalities

Compared to other VPS providers, the Admin interface for RamNode is rather limited. For example, scaling your instances up and down is not as advanced. See More

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Good performance

RamNode usually has some pretty good performance according to benchmarks. Of course, VPS benchmarks are not very reliable but RamNode consistently ranks pretty high in them. See More

Specs

Server locations:Los Angeles; New York; Atlanta; Seattle; Amsterdam

ISOs:CentOS; CloudLinux; CoreOS; Debian; FreeBSD; OpenBSD; Fedora; openSUSE; Gentoo; Ubuntu; Arch; Alpine; NetBSD; Vyatta; MikroTik; GParted; System Rescue; Grml; Scientific; TurnKey; Elastix; Oracle; PBX; iPXE; NixOS; FreePBX; AsteriskNOW; Windows Server 2008 R2

Virtualization:KVM; OpenVZ

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F(x) Data Cloud

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Option for hosting the database service on the cloud server.

If you wanna host your database on the cloud server, you can have both the option as Database as a Service (Pre-installed and managed database) or Infrastructure as a Service (If you want to have root access and manually want to install the database). See More

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No GPU provided

GPU is not provided. See More

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High uptime

All the cloud services are with 99.95% uptime. See More

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Cost-friendly

F(x) Data Cloud provides public cloud server at a cheap price. The basic plan starts at $1.99/month. See More

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Great Support

Typically answers in minute. See More

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Provides high configurations

They provide 32 vCPU, 128 GB RAM, 2000 GB SSD, 9 TB network. For large businesses, high configurations are required. See More

Specs

Server locations:United States

ISOs:Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Windows

Virtualization:KVM

Block Storage:Yes

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Linode

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Gives you the chance to fix problems without relying on support

If you mess things up in your Linode instance, for example with the filesystem or boot configuration, Linode allows you to run a recovery ISO so you can try and fix things yourself without relying on Linode's support team. See More

Top Con

Not really suitable if you have a very heavy CPU application

They'll cap your usage if you go above 80% for a sustained period - even on very large expensive boxes (if you use Load Balancers offered, this can be mitigated). See More

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Excellent support

Linode's support is amazing. Tickets are usually answered within minutes, if there's a network or hardware issue it's usually resolved before anyone even notices. See More

Top Con

For more advanced users

Can be an issue for those not used to setting up their own server. Managed services are really expensive if help is needed. See More

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Allows you to do things that usually can only be done if you have access to the hardware

Linode allows you to create memory partitions and copy or move them around. Furthermore, it even lets you reboot your instance with smaller RAM in order to simulate how your application would act if your Linode instance gets downgraded. See More

Top Con

No self-help migrating option

If you want to migrate to another hosting solution from Linode, you can't do it by yourself. You have to open a support ticket. See More

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Speed

Their VPSs are very fast. See More

Top Con

No PayPal payment method

There's currently no support for paying through PayPal. Plus there's no plan to support it in the near future. See More

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Comprehensive, well documented API

The API gives access to nodes, nodebalancers, stackscripts, DNS, and accounts. See More

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Provides SDKs for several languages

SDKs are available for Python, Perl, PHP, Ruby, Java, and Node.js. See More

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New Cloud Beta user interface

A new user interface is under development which will still keep the same level of power Linode offers but with a cleaner interface. Showing forward thinking and continued improvement. See More

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Stack Scripts

Stack scripts gives you the chance to build a completely custom Linode stack with multiple custom features and options all run automatically and set up. See More

Specs

ISOs:Arch; CentOS; Debian; Fedora; Gentoo; openSUSE; Slackware; Ubuntu

Server locations:London; Frankfurt; Fremont; Newark; Atlanta; Dallas; Tokyo; Singapore

Block Storage:Yes

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DigitalOcean

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Beginner-friendly

DigitalOcean has a control panel that's intuitive and easy to use, new servers (Droplets) can be spun up in under a minute and they offer stock "apps" (LAMP, RoR, Wordpress) that can be deployed instantly. There's also an extensive documentation for people new to VPS. See More

Top Con

No DDoS protection

When Digital Ocean detects what they think may be a DoS attack, they will cut traffic to the droplet to avoid performance drops to neighbors etc. This means if your droplet comes under attack, or appears to be under attack, it will be disconnected from the network, effectively down. See More

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Pay-as-you-go with multiple payment options

Billing is done per hour. Each month has a 672 hour (28-day) billing cap with server runtime past that point being free of charge. DigitalOcean accepts payments via Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, and PayPal. See More

Top Con

Setup is not as fast as advertised

A person who wants to set this up, set that up, configure this and so forth - and who has minimal time pressures would be okay. But the time it takes to be set up can be crucial for people who want to get up and running as fast as possible. See More

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Good API

DigitalOcean has an API for creating and destroying droplets and replicating droplet control panel functionality. The API is RESTful, uses oAuth, supports IPv6 and comes with an extensive documentation. See More

Top Con

Terrible support

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Great customer support

Quick and knowledgeable customer service, extensive documentation and helpful community. See More

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Limited payment options

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Flexible backup mechanism

Automatic backups can be made for 20% of the droplet price and an unlimited amount of snapshots at $0.02 per GB of storage can be made manually. See More

Top Con

Don't accept Bitcoin yet

Even though it's one of the most voted suggestions on their customer feedback website, DigitalOcean does not accept any crypto-currency payment methods. See More

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Competetive starter-level pricing

With pricing that starts at $5/month. It's a pretty cheap VPS provider. See More

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(New) Block Storage Volumes

You can now attach dynamic distributed (assuming SAN) storage to a droplet. Multiple droplets cannot attach to the same volume. The storage is very affordable and there are easy to follow how-to guides. (as of writing, only in certain datacenters) See More

Specs

Server locations:New York (3); Amsterdam (2); San Francisco (2); Singapore; London; Frankfurt; Toronto; Bangalore

ISOs:Ubuntu; Fedora; Debian; CentOS; CoreOS; FreeBSD

Virtualization:KVM

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OVH

Top Pro

Cheap

The cheapest plan VPS SSD 1 is at $3.49 /month with : OpenStack KVM 1 vCore 2.4 GHz 2 GB RAM 10 GB SSD Local RAID 10 See More

Top Con

Horrible support

I opened several tickets, but I didn't got ANY response See More

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Advanced DDoS protection

DDoS protection available on most plans. And advanced game server DDoS protection available as well. See More

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Cloud at Cost

Top Con

Service

You get what you pay for. Don't expect stellar customer support or blazing fast boxes. I only use these for really basic things. I have one running GitLab to back up my code, a couple running Cloud 9 so I can dev straight on the server, and one as a proxy for when I'm on public wifi or something. Don't think you are going to run your company's web site on these servers. See More

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Cheap. Like, really cheap...

With the coupons they offer all the time you really can't beat the price when you consider its a one time fee. See More

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Good variety of OS selections

You can load several variants of Linux (Ubuntu, Cent OS, Debian, etc.) and they even let you throw Windows 7 on them (security nightmare, but whatever). You have to enter your own Win 7 key. See More

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GitHub Pages

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The ability to create and edit files on the web UI gives GitHub pages the same power as a small CMS

One of GitHub's features is a very powerful web editor which helps users edit or even create files right from the web browser, once the file is saved it's the same as a commit. Coupled with pages, this tool becomes even more powerful, giving users a free CMS that is easy to use and create. See More

Top Con

Unable to set cache expiry, must accept GitHub defaults (which are short)

Low cache expires - GitHub sets the cache-control: max-age header to 600 seconds, or ten minutes. Normally, you would set this value to a year so that it stays cached, and then use fingerprinting on your assets. Instead of serving style.css, you would serve something like style-62c887ea7cf54e743ecf3ce6c62a4ed6.css. As it stands now, assets are rarely going to be cached on repeat visits. This will give a low score on https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights with a 'should fix' recommendation around 'Leverage browser caching'. For a high traffic site this may have implications See More

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Supports Jekyll

A simple, blog-aware static site generator, Jekyll makes it easy to create site-wide headers and footers without having to copy them across every page. It also offers some other advanced templating features. See More

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Supports custom domains

A custom domain can be added by creating a CNAME file with the necessary domain in the root of the repository and adding/changing corresponding DNS entries. See More

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Free tier

Static websites can be hosted on GitHub Pages for free as long as the repository is public. Private repositories start at $7/mo. See More

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Allows for all the git features when building your site, too

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Heroku

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Easy to start with

Getting started with Heroku is very easy. It's a very straightforward procedure and a beginner can set up their first app in two minutes. Often it's just a matter of a couple of git commands and it's all set up and running. The official Heroku docmentation also helps a lot. See More

Top Con

Constrained by addons

If you want to fully customize your production environment, then Heroku can be seriously constraining. Installing libraries or services can not be done unless there is already a Heroku plugin for it. See More

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Excellent error logs

When your deploy fails you see a legitimate error log. Many of the other PaaS give you nondescript messages and debugging is a pain. Debugging Heroku wins by comparison. See More

Top Con

Further deployments are slow

While starting with Heroku is fast and easy, and the first few deployments are actually very fast, larger applications tend to have slower deployments. It takes some time for the dynos to restart and while they are restarting the application is completely offline. Which means that you can lose precious seconds of application time. See More

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Add-ons let you easily add features and technologies

Heroku has a vast list of plugins and services that can be added to an instance. These plugins cover things from databases to email systems. This remove the task of having to install services and setting them up manually. Heroku does it all for you. See More

Top Con

Really expensive

Heroku starts getting really expensive once you leave that free tier. It's not just the bare Heroku service that is costly, the addons as well are very pricey. See More

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Simple scaling

Heroku instances can easily be scaled up or down by increasing or decreasing the number of available dynos for that instance. This can be done through the CLI or through Heroku's web UI. See More

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Dedicated build servers

Heroku has dedicated servers for building app dependencies, to ensure that you won't have issues like "out of memory" errors when deploying your app. See More

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Mature

Heroku is one of the oldest PaaS providers. The fact that it's been around for such a long time means that it had a lot of time to mature over the years. There's also a massive number of articles, guides and tutorials on Heroku out there for beginners and advanced users. See More

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Free option

Heroku offers a free tier which contains a single dyno instance. It offers 512MB of memory and 100MB swap space. See More

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Gandi

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All-inclusive package

Top Con

Can be perceived as lacking professionalism due to the blunt "no bullshit" tagline

At face value, Gandi's "no bullshit" marketing slogan and tone may be perceived as unprofessional, especially in the eyes of corporate or otherwise sensitive clients of yours. See More

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Private Whois registration is included

Private whois registration is provided without any extra charges. See More

Top Con

No automatic renewal

No automatic renewal unless with pre-paid money (which makes little sense, as one can register for a few years). See More

Top Pro

Best in basic features

Top Con

Whois protection doesn't hide the name

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Programmatic API support.

Via XML-RPC. See More

Top Con

No catch all email forwarding

Gandi does not support wildcard email forwarding for undefined addresses. See More

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Free unlimited subdomains

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Strong Anti-SOPA stance

Gandi took a stand against SOPA. See More

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Two-factor authentication

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Access levels and delegating is easy

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Free email forwarding

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Google Cloud Platform

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Live-migrating VMs

Your VMs will still run even if there is a maintenance work going on to the tenant running your VM - thanks to Google's Live-migration system. See More

Top Con

Live Migrating VMs does not apply to GPU-attached VMs

because this kind of VMs has a direct passthrough to the Processing Unit, this is not available and restart only will be available for the VM attached. See More

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Clear IAM roles

Unlike most Enterprise-grade IAM role systems, GCP has a clearer IAM permissions model, with Azure following. See More

Top Con

Unstable Egress/Ingress

Google Cloud Platform is a bit unstable with its egress and ingress. You may recieve subtle blips when maintenance work is being carried on the routing. See More

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First-class Kubernetes support

Kubernetes is a project from Google's Borg. GCP is the first Kubernetes-Certified infrastructure. See More

Top Con

Expensive

GCP might be cheaper than AWS but it is more expensive than Azure. The main reason for this might be because of the extensive investment done for datacenters being efficient and green and secure. See More

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Secure and efficient to the core

Google datacenters are built with minimal security issues in mind while still reducing carbon footprint, making Google datacenters a much more greener infrastructure than competitors. See More

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TPUs

Tensor Processing Units are bare-metal units designed to train your Machine Learning models faster. This is exclusive only to Google Cloud Platform. See More

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Runs on the same infrastructure with Google's Services

Google's datacenters runs your favorite video streaming services and even Google itself. Discord also relies on GCP to handle its workloads See More

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Free tier

GCP gives your 365 days of free trial and 300 US$ credit including a Always Free if your upgrade. See More

Specs

Server locations:US East, US West, US Central, Asia, Europe

ISOs:Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Container-optimized OS, CoreOS, Custom

Virtualization:KVM

Block Storage:Yes

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AIT

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OS

Can add Windows for free. See More

Top Con

Need hosting knowledge

If you subscribe for an unmanaged VPS. See More

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Price

Starts from $4.99. See More

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Luna Node

Top Pro

Use any OS

Uses KVM so you can use any OS, even more obscure ones like NixOS. Upload your own ISOs ore QEMU images. See More

Top Con

Bitcoin can only be used as a payment after a credit card has been added to the users account

Bitcoin can only be used once the user has added their credit card info into their Luna node account. This pretty much negates the point of using bitcoin, if you need to hand over your personal information anyways. See More

Top Pro

Extremely low cost

Plans start at $3.6 per month and include plans where you only pay for the CPU and bandwidth that you use. A 2GB RAM 40GB disk 2 core VPS that is idle most of the time can cost ~$6 per month. See More

Top Con

Occasional downtime

Has planned and unplanned downtime of the network occasionally. More frequent than larger VPS providers, on the order of 5 minutes a month. Not an issue for personal and small business use. They are actively improving this though. See More

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VNC access to terminal

Makes it easier to fix boot image issues on unsupported ISOs. See More

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Bitcoin payment support

Pay for credit through many payment methods including Bitcoin and Paypal. See More

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