Try using vultr

But was using DigitalOcean until now, vultr to know while too late that that place is moving from about six months ago in the Tokyo region, try It is.

With the cheapest plan

  • $ 5 / month or $ 0.007 / hour
  • Memory : 768M
  • SSD : 15GB
  • Band : 1000GB (200GB it's Tokyo Region)

is. SSD is nice, is not it? Digital Ocean is SSD 20 GB, but instead memory is 512 MB. I do not need disk space, so I'm happy that more memory is available.

Tokyo Region

The result of ping is

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 13.621/14.480/15.430/0.556 ms

And average 14 msec! It is truly a Tokyo region.

In Digital Ocean's Singapore

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 83.428/89.205/129.731/12.856 ms

And an average of 89 msec. It is far from comparison with vultr.

Windows also supports

Vultr corresponds to the following image.

  • CentOS 7/6/5
  • Ubuntu 14.04 / 12.04
  • Debian 7
  • FreeBSD 10
  • Windows 2012 R2

In addition to that, it corresponds to Custom Image. Especially Windows image can be used is big.

Startup script

There is a "startup script" which runs the startup script specified at instance creation.

I am trying to create and use the following scripts. It is a flow to retrieve keys from github and register. I have confirmed the operation with ubuntu, but I think that it is different in CentOS etc.

With this you can set up the user immediately. It might be a good idea to try using ansible-pull.

Actually it would be nice if you could register keys in advance like Digital Ocean.

#!/bin/sh

USER=shirou
GITHUBUSER=shirou

useradd ${USER} -m
wget https://github.com/${GITHUBUSER}.keys -O /tmp/${GITHUBUSER}.keys
mkdir -p /home/${USER}/.ssh
chmod 700 /home/${USER}/.ssh
cat /tmp/${GITHUBUSER}.keys >> /home/${USER}/.ssh/authorized_keys
chmod 600 /home/${USER}/.ssh/authorized_keys
chown -R ${USER} /home/${USER}
rm -f /tmp/${GITHUBUSER}.keys

# =============
# SSH Support
# =============
echo "${USER} ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" >> /etc/sudoers
echo "PermitRootLogin no" >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config
echo "PasswordAuthentication no" >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config
/etc/init.d/ssh restart

So what?

It is cheap, IPv6 compliant, and it is fast in the Tokyo region no matter what. I have a web console, but this behavior is pretty crispy.

Furthermore, although it is still in beta, there is also a snapshot function, and the API is complete. There is also Two Factor Auth.

Although I am trying it, I think that it is quite attractive at the moment.

Is it difficult to start up? Of course it is so fast as SSD, but I will feel late when I get used to the speed of GCE. What about the key part above?

It should be noted that, ใ“ใกใ‚‰ registered have just kicking and from, so you enter $ 10, thank you by all means from here ~.