When comparing Vultr vs Bitbucket Pages, the Slant community recommends Bitbucket Pages for most people. In the question“What are the best hosting solutions for personal websites/blogs?” Bitbucket Pages is ranked 5th while Vultr is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose Bitbucket Pages is:
BitBucket allows users to have free private repositories as long as it's a team smaller than 5 that is working on a project. In other words, BitBucket charges per team member and not per repository member. This feature may make BitBucket, even BitBucket pages better than for example GitHub for some, since the static page's source code won't be open source, but it can still be viewed on the browser, so for static page hosting per se it is not a big deal.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Great performance
Vultr consistently has great results in benchmarks compared to other VPS providers. It's true that VPS benchmarks are famous for not being very credible because they depend on a myriad of outside variables (most notably instances hosted on the same hardware and distance from the data-center). But still, Vultr scores consistently high in several different benchmarks such as CPU performance and MySQL compilation times.
Pro Wide geographic coverage
Vultr boasts more than a dozen datacenters across the world, ensuring maximal geographic coverage and the chance to increase loading speed wherever your largest demographics may be in the world.
Pro Your own IP Space (BGP AS)
You can announce your own BGP space across all of Vultr's datacenters worldwide.
Pro Custom ISO support
Pro Bitcoin payment support
Vultr supports Bitcoin payment. If you want to be extra careful about security and the security of your credit card/bank account/paypal account you can pay with Bitcoins.
Pro Quick-deploy apps
Vultr offers stock "apps", such as LEMP, Wordpress, Mincraft, Webmin, ownCloud, etc, that can be deployed instantly.
Pro Daily automatic backup
Vultr is capable of running daily backups with two most recent backups stored. Time of backup can be changed.
Pro Free private repositories
BitBucket allows users to have free private repositories as long as it's a team smaller than 5 that is working on a project. In other words, BitBucket charges per team member and not per repository member. This feature may make BitBucket, even BitBucket pages better than for example GitHub for some, since the static page's source code won't be open source, but it can still be viewed on the browser, so for static page hosting per se it is not a big deal.
Pro Multiple authentication methods
BitBucket supports GitHub, Twitter, Facebook, OpenID, Google and even GitHub authentication.
Cons
Con New hardware
Compare to DO hardware are old.
Con Sub-par documentation
While Vultr does offer documentation, it's not of a very high quality. Not everything is covered and it's more aimed at advanced users. So it wouldn't be a good choice for a beginner.
Con No billing-support on sunday
Added 30 dollars of funds to a new account on a Sunday, however Vultr did not allow me to deploy because of a insufficient funds message. Added support ticket, received the answer that billing related issues are only resolved on workdays.