DigitalOcean vs Vultr vs Mothership1?

[Gubenor]

I was looking up some new cloud providers and these 3 (mainly digital ocean and vultr) seem to be generating a lot of buzz. Anybody use all 3 yet? What has been the best for uptime and performance? The cost seems good with all of them, I just want a reliable cloud to host one or two cpanel VPS servers.

Thanks!!

 

[thekreek]

I have used DigitalOcean and Vultr.

Uptime: in both has been good (USA location)

Connectivity: has been stable in both (USA location)

Performance: Vultr win a little bit (more ram for the same price 786MB vs 512MB) by two facts more memory and higher cpu clock.

Support: DigitalOcean wins against Vultr, it's like comparing Linode vs GoDaddy in support.

Both host could give you a good service, it your budget is limited go with Vultr.

If you're looking for internal networking go with Digital Ocean.

From my point of view, for a CPanel server I always try to get at least 2 IP's, in this case is a bit difficult with both providers.

 

[devonblzx]

It depends what your definition of cloud server is.  DO and Vultr are only instant deployment and hourly billing.  That is the extent of their cloud.  Other than that they are just standard virtual machines running on SSD.

AFAIK neither run high availability or a duplicated/shared storage system that most cloud hosts exhibit.   They both do a good job in the marketing department though.

 

[sv01]

I was looking up some new cloud providers and these 3 (mainly digital ocean and vultr) seem to be generating a lot of buzz. Anybody use all 3 yet? What has been the best for uptime and performance? The cost seems good with all of them, I just want a reliable cloud to host one or two cpanel VPS servers.

Thanks!!

I use all of them.


VULTR (use for backup server)

 11:43:35 up 151 days,  1:48,  1 user,  load average: 0.06, 0.08, 0.06

DO : SG Location not stable in speed and uptime.

 11:42:15 up 31 days, 23:59,  1 user,  load average: 0.08, 0.03, 0.05

M1 : I only use them for 1 -2 week, because I'm confused with their control panel.

from 3 of them I still prefer using vultr.  If you intend to use them for cPanel, remember their $20 (DO)/$15(vultr) plan just have 2 core.

From my point of view, for a CPanel server I always try to get at least 2 IP's, in this case is a bit difficult with both providers.

you can add more IP with vultr.

 

[Dylan]

Mothership1 has the absolute worst control panel I've ever seen, by a landslide. It's like a case-study in how not to make a custom panel.

Equally damning is the fact that their VM performance, at least when I tried one a couple months back, is decidedly mediocre. I wish I'd saved my ServerBear link but suffice it to say there were no real bright spots anywhere, even compared to DO.

 

[DomainBop]

Mothership1 has the absolute worst control panel I've ever seen, by a landslide. It's like a case-study in how not to make a custom panel.

Equally damning is the fact that their VM performance, at least when I tried one a couple months back, is decidedly mediocre. I wish I'd saved my ServerBear link but suffice it to say there were no real bright spots anywhere, even compared to DO.

The performance was mediocre when the networking in their system was working: problems with IP assignments on new instances, ports that would suddenly stop forwarding leaving the instance inaccessible.  It felt like an early beta not a ready for production system to me when I tried it....and the system (at least in Toronto) also felt like it was overloaded most of the time.

It depends what your definition of cloud server is.  DO and Vultr are only instant deployment and hourly billing.  That is the extent of their cloud.

I consider DO and Vultr to be VPS's not cloud servers. In terms of true HA "clouds"  the 5 that I use and would recommend  are:

CloudVPS (Amsterdam,  OpenStack)

Nephoscale (San Jose, own NephOS platform) owned by Silicon Valley Web Hosting

GreenQloud (Reykjavik, CloudStack)

CloudFlow (Milan, OnApp) owned by SeFlow

IWStack (Milan, CloudStack) owned by Prometeus

 

[Schultz]

Neither providers have anything special other than some of them using SSD. I'd go for D.O if it was me. Other than that I'd highly recommend BuyVM or Ramnode.

 

[AThomasHowe]

I like Vultr and feel like they're going in a better direction that DO, even though their services are basically equal except a few plan tweaks and locations available.

That said, DO keep drawing me back in with free credit and competitions ($50 from ServerBear last) so I am using DO London mainly at the mo and it's pretty good.

Mothership1 seems kinda half assed. Pretty much a bog standard bill-by-the-hour VPS provider with an alien theme (we've never seen the space/alien host thing before, right?).

 

[datarealm]

I consider DO and Vultr to be VPS's not cloud servers. In terms of true HA "clouds"  the 5 that I use and would recommend  are:

CloudVPS (Amsterdam,  OpenStack)

Nephoscale (San Jose, own NephOS platform) owned by Silicon Valley Web Hosting

GreenQloud (Reykjavik, CloudStack)

CloudFlow (Milan, OnApp) owned by SeFlow

IWStack (Milan, CloudStack) owned by Prometeus

Blatant self promotion here, but we have an CloudStack platform running in Phoenix if you ever want another stateside option.

Also thanks for once again pointing out how DO and Vultr are trying to gain some sort of marketing edge calling themselves cloud instead of vps.  True there are no set definitions, but they really do appear to imply more than other companies that they have some sort of technical advantage over 'traditional' vps providers.

 

[VPSCorey]

Our new OnApp setup is active.

Arista Switches

SolidFireSAN

2x10GB SAN using MLAG

2x10GB Internet using MLAG

Everything is built 2N

 

[Francisco]

Mothership1 has the absolute worst control panel I've ever seen, by a landslide. It's like a case-study in how not to make a custom panel.

I just saw the screenshots - what the shit?

Francisco

 

[Dylan]

It felt like an early beta not a ready for production system to me when I tried it

What's really funny is that stuff that worked (well, "worked") when I used it a couple months ago is apparently now broken:



Useful settings page, no?

 

[fm7]

I like Vultr and feel like they're going in a better direction that DO, even though their services are basically equal except a few plan tweaks and locations available.

Agreed but Vultr allows custom ISO, what makes a BIG difference between the 2 providers, and Windows 2012 R2 plans -- not basically equal services.

If you're looking for internal networking go with Digital Ocean.

If you are looking for private internal networking go with Vultr

I consider DO and Vultr to be VPS's not cloud servers. In terms of true HA "clouds"  the 5 that I use and would recommend  are:

...

IWStack (Milan, CloudStack) owned by Prometeus

 +1 for IWStack/Prometeus

"True" "cloud" and cheap I also could recommend Atlantic.net (InfiniBand SANs and bill-by-the-second VMs , but currently no IPv6 connectivity)

And if DigitalOcean & others "template only" is ok for you, surely Linode is a great (IMO better) option, in special in Japan -- 1TB traffic vs Vultr's 200GB, both plans costing $10.

 

[sean]

M1 appear to use Mikrotik RouterOS which is the buggiest thing ever in my experience.

 

[RLT]

Linode in Japan was the fastest VPN I ever had. I dropped it when my daughter finished her Japanese classes. I should have kept it.

 

[drmike]

I don't know..... 

Mothership1 seems like they've self torpedo'd themselves... Anyone still with them?

DO is alright for sandbox deploys and impulse testing.  Really is no frills.   I mean some features in there, but it's VPS + Panel.  Network has been good for me and peppy when testing.  Disk has been fast, more than I need.

Vultr I've been trying, recently and panel is straightforward.  Network is either QoS'd or just blah.... speeds on standard tests from multiple common locations has been blah...  But I have a lot more testing to do and over time before I say yuck.