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    Which cloud server can be the best alternative of DigitalOcean?

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    • masterarts
      masterarts last edited by

      Which cloud server can be the best alternative of DigitalOcean?

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      • JaredBusch
        JaredBusch @masterarts last edited by

        @masterarts said in Which cloud server can be the best alternative of DigitalOcean?:

        Which cloud server can be the best alternative of DigitalOcean?

        I like Vultr

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        • scottalanmiller
          scottalanmiller last edited by

          We moved from DO to Vultr as well. Significantly better.

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          • brandon220
            brandon220 last edited by

            Also on Vultr. Very affordable and no issues.

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            • AdamF
              AdamF last edited by

              I've switched most of my stuff to Vultr as well. Performance and uptime is really good. However, I have never used DO, so I can't compare.

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              • EddieJennings
                EddieJennings last edited by

                We deployed our FreePBX server in Vultr. Working like a charm.

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                • Obsolesce
                  Obsolesce last edited by Obsolesce

                  I haven't tried Vultr yet, only Azure, GCP, and Godaddy.

                  Performance wise, Azure and GCP are excellent. The same specs on Vultr are way cheaper... so I am reluctant to try it.

                  But I did see that if you want the same kind of performance from Vultr as you would get from GCP, then you need buy at least the $20 tier from Vultr. It seems you need 2 CPUs from Vultr to get the same performance as 1 CPU from GCP... at least according to graphs and comparisons I've seen.

                  Anyone have additional input or personal experience comparing the two?

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                  • scottalanmiller
                    scottalanmiller @Obsolesce last edited by

                    @tim_g said in Which cloud server can be the best alternative of DigitalOcean?:

                    Performance wise, Azure and GCP are excellent.

                    That's a surpirsing finding. Azure's claim to fame is that its performance is terrible. AWS beats it heavily with equal specs. And Vultr crushes AWS in value for performance. Azure is, ot he best of my knowledge, the lowest performance well known platform.

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                    • scottalanmiller
                      scottalanmiller @Obsolesce last edited by

                      @tim_g said in Which cloud server can be the best alternative of DigitalOcean?:

                      Anyone have additional input or personal experience comparing the two?

                      Haven't compared Google Cloud, but when we did performance tests previously Vultr was the performance winner across the board. It was the gastest for its specs, and its specs were half the price of anyone but Linode. So you got better than double performance per dollar.

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                      • Obsolesce
                        Obsolesce @scottalanmiller last edited by Obsolesce

                        @scottalanmiller said in Which cloud server can be the best alternative of DigitalOcean?:

                        @tim_g said in Which cloud server can be the best alternative of DigitalOcean?:

                        Anyone have additional input or personal experience comparing the two?

                        Haven't compared Google Cloud, but when we did performance tests previously Vultr was the performance winner across the board. It was the gastest for its specs, and its specs were half the price of anyone but Linode. So you got better than double performance per dollar.

                        I'll have to test it out head-to-head with the same specs as my GCP server. I don't have the money to buy a Vultr instance just to do a good comparison.

                        To do a real and fair test, I would need a 1CPU, 4GB RAM, and 50GB SSD Vultr VPS. Would they do a 1month trial? If they did, and Vultr performed better, I'd switch.

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                        • scottalanmiller
                          scottalanmiller @Obsolesce last edited by

                          @tim_g said in Which cloud server can be the best alternative of DigitalOcean?:

                          To do a real and fair test, I would need a 1CPU, 4GB RAM, and 50GB SSD Vultr VPS. Would they do a 1month trial? If they did, and Vultr performed better, I'd switch.

                          What do you mean? It's cloud computing, you pay by the minute that you use it. There is no "buying" concept. It's only a few cents to test performance.

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                          • MustaasamSaleem
                            MustaasamSaleem last edited by

                            It depends on the requirements.

                            Let me give you an example. If your targeted audience is in Canada. You don't have any choice except DO or AWS because they both have a data-center there.

                            However, if your targeted audience is from the UK. You have many alternatives like Linode, Vultr, GCE, Amazon, Kyup etc.. They all have a data-center in the UK.

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                            • Mike Davis
                              Mike Davis last edited by

                              I'm on Vultr as well. It's working well for me.

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                              • coliver
                                coliver @MustaasamSaleem last edited by

                                @mustaasamsaleem said in Which cloud server can be the best alternative of DigitalOcean?:

                                It depends on the requirements.

                                Let me give you an example. If your targeted audience is in Canada. You don't have any choice except DO or AWS because they both have a data-center there.

                                However, if your targeted audience is from the UK. You have many alternatives like Linode, Vultr, GCE, Amazon, Kyup etc.. They all have a data-center in the UK.

                                Curious as to why this matters? I get that latency is a thing but is it often enough to make a modern application suffer?

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                                • scottalanmiller
                                  scottalanmiller @coliver last edited by

                                  @coliver said in Which cloud server can be the best alternative of DigitalOcean?:

                                  @mustaasamsaleem said in Which cloud server can be the best alternative of DigitalOcean?:

                                  It depends on the requirements.

                                  Let me give you an example. If your targeted audience is in Canada. You don't have any choice except DO or AWS because they both have a data-center there.

                                  However, if your targeted audience is from the UK. You have many alternatives like Linode, Vultr, GCE, Amazon, Kyup etc.. They all have a data-center in the UK.

                                  Curious as to why this matters? I get that latency is a thing but is it often enough to make a modern application suffer?

                                  Lots of companies need hosting either in their own country, or in a country that protects them. So US hosting is the number one distrusted or disallowed location for hosting world wide. Much of Asia falls into a similar "can't use" tier for most of the world. Some places, like Japan and Singapore, are exceptions. If you are from a country or business looking to protect your data and are from the western or Latin world, you generally look at locality and require hosting in Europe or Canada.

                                  As Americans, remote hosting does not afford us protections, so we don't think about these things.

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                                  • dbeato
                                    dbeato last edited by

                                    I use Vultr and AWS at the moment. I have free Azure VMS with RDS that work well for us.

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                                    • coliver
                                      coliver @scottalanmiller last edited by

                                      @scottalanmiller said in Which cloud server can be the best alternative of DigitalOcean?:

                                      @coliver said in Which cloud server can be the best alternative of DigitalOcean?:

                                      @mustaasamsaleem said in Which cloud server can be the best alternative of DigitalOcean?:

                                      It depends on the requirements.

                                      Let me give you an example. If your targeted audience is in Canada. You don't have any choice except DO or AWS because they both have a data-center there.

                                      However, if your targeted audience is from the UK. You have many alternatives like Linode, Vultr, GCE, Amazon, Kyup etc.. They all have a data-center in the UK.

                                      Curious as to why this matters? I get that latency is a thing but is it often enough to make a modern application suffer?

                                      Lots of companies need hosting either in their own country, or in a country that protects them. So US hosting is the number one distrusted or disallowed location for hosting world wide. Much of Asia falls into a similar "can't use" tier for most of the world. Some places, like Japan and Singapore, are exceptions. If you are from a country or business looking to protect your data and are from the western or Latin world, you generally look at locality and require hosting in Europe or Canada.

                                      As Americans, remote hosting does not afford us protections, so we don't think about these things.

                                      Got it.

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                                      • scottalanmiller
                                        scottalanmiller @coliver last edited by

                                        @coliver said in Which cloud server can be the best alternative of DigitalOcean?:

                                        @scottalanmiller said in Which cloud server can be the best alternative of DigitalOcean?:

                                        @coliver said in Which cloud server can be the best alternative of DigitalOcean?:

                                        @mustaasamsaleem said in Which cloud server can be the best alternative of DigitalOcean?:

                                        It depends on the requirements.

                                        Let me give you an example. If your targeted audience is in Canada. You don't have any choice except DO or AWS because they both have a data-center there.

                                        However, if your targeted audience is from the UK. You have many alternatives like Linode, Vultr, GCE, Amazon, Kyup etc.. They all have a data-center in the UK.

                                        Curious as to why this matters? I get that latency is a thing but is it often enough to make a modern application suffer?

                                        Lots of companies need hosting either in their own country, or in a country that protects them. So US hosting is the number one distrusted or disallowed location for hosting world wide. Much of Asia falls into a similar "can't use" tier for most of the world. Some places, like Japan and Singapore, are exceptions. If you are from a country or business looking to protect your data and are from the western or Latin world, you generally look at locality and require hosting in Europe or Canada.

                                        As Americans, remote hosting does not afford us protections, so we don't think about these things.

                                        Got it.

                                        For EU Companies it is often a legal thing. For pretty much any data they are literally banned from letting it touch US soil. It's not just company decisions, but legal ones.

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                                        • BRRABill
                                          BRRABill last edited by

                                          Also on Vultr.

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                                          • Reid Cooper
                                            Reid Cooper last edited by

                                            Vultr as well.

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