Choopa sends out Vultr to drown in the DigitalOcean

[drmike]

So Choopa has dropped a new product called Vultr.com, it's attempt to compete directly with DigitalOcean.

A side-by-side comparison of vultr.com and digitialocean.com show a lot of similarities.  A total ripoff if I may say so myself.

The bottom end package 512MB, 20GB disk and 1TB transit is an identical $5 from each company.   The similarities remain across all the other plans, a wholesale ripoff by Choopa, aka Vultr.com...  Only difference is Choopa/Vultr undercuts DigitalOcean by $5 here and $10 there depending on the plan.

This has to be one of the worst named and highly ripped off like-brands I've ever seen.  

What do other folks think?  Interesting seeing Choopa competing with VPS companies now --- companies they until now have sold a decent number of servers and colo to....

 

[kaniini]

I'm not terribly worried about it.  Gimped APIs and being strongly in the DigitalOcean space means the type of customers I work with aren't going to be using it.

that said: it is amusing that someone else is demonstrating there isn't anything at all magical about DigitalOcean's business model by replicating it in tons of locations.

 

[serverian]

Vultr is not thin provisioned RAID5 like DO. I think that pretty much sums up the difference between them.

 

[drmike]

Vultr is not thin provisioned RAID5 like DO. I think that pretty much sums up the difference between them.

What is Vultr using then disk solution wise?   

 

[GIANT_CRAB]

What is Vultr using then disk solution wise?   

From the looks of the writes and IO and shits, looks like RAID10 and clustered E3s to me, still not real cloud though.

EDIT: nvm, serverian posted it at LowEndShill already - http://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/484484/#Comment_484484

 

[wlanboy]

It is indeed a rippoff but the locations are not bad at all:


(EU) Frankfurt, DE fra-de-ping.vultr.com
(EU) Amsterdam, NL ams-nl-ping.vultr.com
(EU) Paris, France par-fr-ping.vultr.com
(EU) London, UK lon-gb-ping.vultr.com
New York / New Jersey nj-us-ping.vultr.com
Chicago, Illinois il-us-ping.vultr.com
Atlanta, Georgia ga-us-ping.vultr.com
Seattle, Washington wa-us-ping.vultr.com
Dallas, Texas tx-us-ping.vultr.com
(Asia) Tokyo, Japan hnd-jp-ping.vultr.com
Los Angeles, California lax-ca-us-ping.vultr.com
(AU) Sydney, Australia syd-au-ping.vultr.com

And there is free DDoS:


Note: Primary locations include free DDOS protection
Primay Location
New York / New Jersey
Primay Location
Chicago, Illinois
Primay Location
(EU) Amsterdam, NL

But only 4 OS templates:

Operating Systems:
CentOS 6 x64
Ubuntu 12.04 x64
Ubuntu 12.10 x64
Ubuntu 13.10 x64

 

[MannDude]

What a horrible name.

Ask me  later, after I sleep what that 'new digitalocean competitor' is.... I'll have forgotten it.

 

[joepie91]

But only 4 OS templates:


Operating Systems:
CentOS 6 x64
Ubuntu 12.04 x64
Ubuntu 12.10 x64
Ubuntu 13.10 x64

No Debian?!

 

[Zigara]

I decided to try them out and am shocked.

I signed up for an account and logged in and was greeted with:





That is not my virtual machine, nor is that my closed ticket. The billing information page also shows a part of the person's VISA number.

I had a friend sign up and he got 2 different vm's and their support tickets as well.

 

[BeastVM_Aaron]

I saw lots of threads about digitalocean's life time.. It seems what they told is going to happen

 

[imperio]

I decided to try them out and am shocked.

I signed up for an account and logged in and was greeted with:





That is not my virtual machine, nor is that my closed ticket. The billing information page also shows a part of the person's VISA number.

I had a friend sign up and he got 2 different vm's and their support tickets as well.

Vultr and gameservers.com are using same locations.If they are using also same billing database that's an epic fail.

 

[Patrick]

Vultr and gameservers.com are using same locations.If they are using also same billing database that's an epic fail.

Same owners.

 

[drmike]

Whoa daddy!  Seeing other folks tickets and payment info.   That's epic #failing.

I'll wait until the dust clears on this offer.   They were doubling your money, but heck, that might mean someone else's account/money from what we are seeing

 

[rm_]

I signed up and not seeing anyone's servers, payment info or tickets. Maybe they fixed it now?

 

[HalfEatenPie]

Yep I saw the same thing as Zigara.  Pretty shocked.  Saw another person's server too.  

 

[k0nsl]

Nice locations, lame rip-off of DO design, horrible pixelated/distorted "limited promo" banner. Et cetera. I have not deployed any server with them yet (if I ever will). Ya, epic #fail with regard of seeing other people's billing information and tickets, but I did not get any of that. Maybe somebody can see my information now :lol:

 

[eva2000]

deal breaker = security

that and affiliate link just leads to banners with no affiliate tracking LOL

 

[tuguhost]

still prefer DO, since they have singapore location.

and i also have bad experience with chopa in the past

 

[Taronyu]

Is there anymore information available about that DDoS protection? (Amsterdam)

 

[notFound]

Slightly better than DO, but still no where near like what a 'real cloud' should be, no automatic failover, no snapshots or such, only two OS choices.. Non primary locations being single homed. Not amazing by any stretch of the imagination.