We use Vultr, DigitalOcean and Hetzner for global coverage. Vultr is by far the worst - some DC like Australia are pretty bad, lots of connectivity issues, some are OK. Their forte is that they offer a lot of DCs. We are migrating some workloads back to DO, where things are usually way smoother. Hetzner is our core, but does not offer DCs in Asia, Africa or Latam.
replyWhen I used them the main issue was latency spikes due to their IP ranges getting DDoSd. They host a lot of shady/spam sites.
replyOh, didn't realize that. Any recommendation for mitigating that if deployed there? Had thought about putting something on Vultr in a few months. Also open to any other good recommendations for providers that have a managed Postgres.
replyHaven't used either but have heard good things about PlanetScale and NeonDB. Neon has a free tier
replyI have a Vultr account but it's very lightly used. Came recommended by Derek Sivers^1
replyI spend about $100/month with Vultr. The uptime in the datacenters my VMs are hosted in is extremely good.
replyI use it as a hosting target for automated deployment tooling we wrote. Tools were originally Digitalocean-only and I wondered if LLMs could add support for a second provider, so asked Claude to add Vultr which it did very nicely. But other than run the automated tests (which create VMs, DNS entries, check validity and tear down) and pay the monthly bill, we haven't yet used them for production deployments.
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