Vultr Vultr Sandbox $2.50/month plan & more ram/ssd capacity etc

Vultr latest announcements on their Vultr Cloud Compute (VC2) platform which include a new Sandbox VPS plan at $2.50/month, more ram and ssd disk capacity, 10Gbit/s in/out network. lower bandwidth overages and free snapshots and a firewall service Vultr: High Performance SSD Cloud.

Seems the Sandbox $2.50/month VPS plans are limited to 2 per account.

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$5/month Vultr VPS now has bumped memory and disk space from 768MB to 1GB and disk from 15GB to 25GB. This puts Vultr's $40/month plan in direct feature to price competition with Linode's $40/month plan though Vultr has 4GB more disk space

 

Existing 768MB Vultr VPS users can upgrade to new plans







768MB Vultr VPS upgraded to 1GB Vultr VPS new post-Centmin Mod install disk space

Code (Text):

df -hT
Filesystem           Type   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda1            ext4    25G  6.3G   18G  27% /
tmpfs                tmpfs  499M     0  499M   0% /dev/shm
/home/usertmp_donotdelete
                     ext4   976M  1.3M  924M   1% /tmp

memory upgrade

Code (Text):

free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           996        468        527         12        138        132
-/+ buffers/cache:        197        798
Swap:         1023          0       1023

 

it's enticing though

Yeah same here updated a few of my 768MB and 1GB Vultr VPS to the new updated specs

Competition is awesome .. now ball is in Linode and DigitalOcean's court. Linode needs more disk space ! DigitalOcean more disk space + faster cpus

Also means with 1GB $5/month on Linode and Vultr, for Centmin Mod users can opt for CentOS 7 OS installs now as they meet minimum ram requirements. But not really for disk space heh.

 

+1 yup, 2017 has never been better for web site operators to start up their site - powered by their own web stack configurations. The wide choices are nice - all we need is more DDOS protection service offerings to be released

Indeed. Makes Centmin Mod testing and Centmin Mod's Letsencrypt integration of addons/acmetool.sh much easier for all

 

After using Vultr referral link, check out there double deposit offer Vultr: High Performance SSD Cloud.. Basically, if you desposit $25, they'll match it so you get $50 credit upto $100

 

the double deposit bonus is for initial deposit only, so might want to to deposit your vpn server size x 12 months at least or 6 months and so you get 12-24 months worth of credits

Vultr also defaults to blocking emails on server at first. You contact support and provide ID verification and they enable emails on your servers going forth by default.

 

One thing is I have only updated my existing 768MB VPS with 2.4Ghz cpus so far. My 768MB VPS with faster 3.4+ Ghz cpus I have yet to do so, just checking if I will loose my 3.4+ Ghz cpus and get given 2.4Ghz ones heh. Anyone confirm if their existing Vultr 3.4+ Ghz VPS on upgrading to new plans retains the faster cpus or gets downgraded to the normal default 2.4Ghz cpus yet ?

For folks new to Vultr, they started off marketing and using E3-12xx 3.4+ Ghz cpus for their VPS but only time moved those to their Vultr Dedicated Compute VPS with more dedicated resources and left the normal Vultr Cloud Compute VPS to using E5-26xx 2.4Ghz instances No more 3.4 GHZ CPU cores?. Some Vultr users still sit on the older but faster 3.4+Ghz vpses. I believe @Matt Williams has a ton of those instances heh

 

Some folks reported seeing Intel Xeon E5 Haswell 2.4Ghz cpus in Vultr $2.5/m instances. So along with my findings of Intel Xeon Broadwell E5 2.4Ghz possibly, that means Vultr might be using either Intel Xeon E5-2640v4 Broadwell-EP 2.4Ghz or Xeon E5-2630v3 Haswell-EP 2.4Ghz then

 

excellent to hear

 

not sure on those sandbox vps. You should test and compare with their new 1GB vps instances