I found this by spelunking deeply into... the main menu where there's a Pricing option. I'm not a Vultr customer and I don't have an account with them.
I was curious and I made an account. And the "enter credit card" thing you complain about is just part of the onboarding flow, along with things like "set up your profile". Is it so crazy that you might want a fast track to put your card in for a hosting service? It's all optional anyway.
Ignoring that (I didn't enter a credit card), there's a prominent Deploy button you can hit.
The issue you see about pricing is that they only offer that cheap price in some data centers. Atlanta has it, but the current default selection of Miami does not. They could definitely do better to make this obvious since they are advertising that minimum, but this is not at all surprising to me who has used tons of cloud provisioning UIs. I don't think it's reasonable to expect the same pricing in all regions, no one actually does that.
Once Atlanta is selected, they also auto select a better compute class by default ("AMD High Performance"). Setting that to "Regular Cloud Compute" gets you down to that $2.50/mo price.
Except for one more thing, they default select Backups for it, and that's another $1/mo.
They could do better about this stuff but it's barely something to get upset about. Before you spin up the server, the final price is listed right there in both hourly and monthly units, which is better than AWS does.
That's not true. The pricing page I link does not require an account, and after you create an account, you can access the actual provisioning UI without entering a credit card. I just did it.
The two factor is a check that you actually control the email you purport to own, it's a perfectly fine thing to do. Are you arguing against two factor by default? Are you arguing that a service shouldn't validate email addresses? Seems especially important for a service that can be used for hacking or DDOS attacks, no?
That's also not true, two factor works before putting in a credit card, as I've said in a related post. I completed an email based two factor request when I did my test and I still have not given them a credit card.
> The issue you see about pricing is that they only offer that cheap price in some data centers. Atlanta has it, but the current default selection of Miami does not. They could definitely do better to make this obvious since they are advertising that minimum, but this is not at all surprising to me who has used tons of cloud provisioning UIs. I don't think it's reasonable to expect the same pricing in all regions, no one actually does that.
They have a one year free-tier you can sign-up for during your trial. I am on that plan now. Still I always forget to search different regions when attempting to launch a free VM, so there is some delay until I remember to choose Atlanta.
Are these not details?
https://www.vultr.com/pricing/
I found this by spelunking deeply into... the main menu where there's a Pricing option. I'm not a Vultr customer and I don't have an account with them.
I was curious and I made an account. And the "enter credit card" thing you complain about is just part of the onboarding flow, along with things like "set up your profile". Is it so crazy that you might want a fast track to put your card in for a hosting service? It's all optional anyway.
Ignoring that (I didn't enter a credit card), there's a prominent Deploy button you can hit.
The issue you see about pricing is that they only offer that cheap price in some data centers. Atlanta has it, but the current default selection of Miami does not. They could definitely do better to make this obvious since they are advertising that minimum, but this is not at all surprising to me who has used tons of cloud provisioning UIs. I don't think it's reasonable to expect the same pricing in all regions, no one actually does that.
Once Atlanta is selected, they also auto select a better compute class by default ("AMD High Performance"). Setting that to "Regular Cloud Compute" gets you down to that $2.50/mo price.
Except for one more thing, they default select Backups for it, and that's another $1/mo.
They could do better about this stuff but it's barely something to get upset about. Before you spin up the server, the final price is listed right there in both hourly and monthly units, which is better than AWS does.