{"slug": "vultr", "name": "Vultr", "category": "infra", "category_name": "Infrastructure and DevOps", "description": "", "recommenders": 1, "commenters": 6, "warners": 2, "score": -0.099, "rising": -0.33, "first": "2026-01-05", "latest": "2026-07-05", "why": "They have no additional charge for BYOIP and you can use their private ASN if you don't have your own", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 3, "compare": 0, "warn": 2}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0], "listed": false, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "They have no additional charge for BYOIP and you can use their private ASN if you don't have your own", "icon": false, "domain": "vultr.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://vultr.com", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Vultr"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 780710240, "item_id": 48794390, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794390", "by": "icedchai", "date": "2026-07-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "They have no additional charge for BYOIP and you can use their private ASN if you don't have your own", "excerpt": "I've been running my own ASN for a while. I route both IPv6 and v4 back to my home network over wireguard. I use Vultr for one of my providers. They have no additional charge for BYOIP and you can use their private ASN if you don't have your own: https://docs.vultr.com/support/products/network/can-i-use-my-own-ip-space-for-vultr-instances If I used AWS the bandwidth charges would probably be a bit high.", "context": "runs own ASN", "use_case": "BYOIP hosting provider", "switched_from": "", "story": "My ASN Journey series (2024)"}, {"id": 751171072, "item_id": 46948192, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46948192", "by": "icedchai", "date": "2026-02-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You can definitely announce BGP from a VPS with some providers. I have been doing this for years. Vultr will do it.", "excerpt": "You may have been looking in the wrong spot? You can see plenty of prefixes in 192.160.0.0/16 currently announced. Check out https://stat.ripe.net/widget/routing-history When ARIN contacts you, it's through email. They send an email with a confirmation link, so that probably bounced. You can definitely announce BGP from a VPS with some providers. I have been doing this for years. Vultr will do it. However, they will ", "context": "", "use_case": "announcing BGP from a VPS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Running Your Own As: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 776716016, "item_id": 48544751, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544751", "by": "kamma4434", "date": "2026-06-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Vultr is by far the worst - some DC like Australia are pretty bad, lots of connectivity issues", "excerpt": "We use Vultr, DigitalOcean and Hetzner for global coverage. Vultr is by far the worst - some DC like Australia are pretty bad, lots of connectivity issues, some are OK. Their forte is that they offer a lot of DCs. We are migrating some workloads back to DO, where things are usually way smoother. Hetzner is our core, but does not offer DCs in Asia, Africa or Latam.", "context": "", "use_case": "global hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x"}, {"id": 765166256, "item_id": 47822891, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822891", "by": "altern8", "date": "2026-04-19", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Now, prices are so bad that I have to choose between a bare metal server with 500 GB of SSD storage, 16-core CPU and 16 GB of RAM with OVH or a VM with 1/10 of that with Vultr.", "excerpt": "I used to like Vultr because it was a cheaper Digital Ocean, still with a great-looking UI (if not better). Now, prices are so bad that I have to choose between a bare metal server with 500 GB of SSD storage, 16-core CPU and 16 GB of RAM with OVH or a VM with 1/10 of that with Vultr. It doesn't make any sense. Also, Vultr has the nasty policy of topping your account $100 whenever you run out of money, even if your se", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting personal projects", "switched_from": "", "story": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime"}]}], "who": [{"by": "icedchai", "context": "runs own ASN", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794390", "date": "2026-07-05"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["byoip hosting provider", "global hosting", "hosting target for deployment tooling", "hosting personal projects", "announcing bgp from a vps", "cheap vps"], "compared": [{"slug": "digitalocean", "name": "DigitalOcean", "co": 3, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "ovh", "name": "OVH", "co": 1, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542064", "title": "Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791256", "title": "My ASN Journey series (2024)", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815774", "title": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934266", "title": "Running Your Own As: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46638331", "title": "Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46491486", "title": "Claude Code On-the-Go", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {"neutral": 2}, "2026-02": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"warn": 1}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {"neutral": 1, "warn": 1}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 780710240, "item_id": 48794390, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794390", "by": "icedchai", "date": "2026-07-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "They have no additional charge for BYOIP and you can use their private ASN if you don't have your own", "excerpt": "I've been running my own ASN for a while. I route both IPv6 and v4 back to my home network over wireguard. I use Vultr for one of my providers. They have no additional charge for BYOIP and you can use their private ASN if you don't have your own: https://docs.vultr.com/support/products/network/can-i-use-my-own-ip-space-for-vultr-instances If I used AWS the bandwidth charges would probably be a bit high.", "context": "runs own ASN", "use_case": "BYOIP hosting provider", "switched_from": "", "story": "My ASN Journey series (2024)"}, {"id": 776716016, "item_id": 48544751, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544751", "by": "kamma4434", "date": "2026-06-15", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Vultr is by far the worst - some DC like Australia are pretty bad, lots of connectivity issues", "excerpt": "We use Vultr, DigitalOcean and Hetzner for global coverage. Vultr is by far the worst - some DC like Australia are pretty bad, lots of connectivity issues, some are OK. Their forte is that they offer a lot of DCs. We are migrating some workloads back to DO, where things are usually way smoother. Hetzner is our core, but does not offer DCs in Asia, Africa or Latam.", "context": "", "use_case": "global hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x"}, {"id": 776690944, "item_id": 48543184, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543184", "by": "dboreham", "date": "2026-06-15", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use it as a hosting target for automated deployment tooling we wrote.", "excerpt": "I use it as a hosting target for automated deployment tooling we wrote. Tools were originally Digitalocean-only and I wondered if LLMs could add support for a second provider, so asked Claude to add Vultr which it did very nicely. But other than run the automated tests (which create VMs, DNS entries, check validity and tear down) and pay the monthly bill, we haven't yet used them for production deployments.", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting target for deployment tooling", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x"}, {"id": 765166256, "item_id": 47822891, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47822891", "by": "altern8", "date": "2026-04-19", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Now, prices are so bad that I have to choose between a bare metal server with 500 GB of SSD storage, 16-core CPU and 16 GB of RAM with OVH or a VM with 1/10 of that with Vultr.", "excerpt": "I used to like Vultr because it was a cheaper Digital Ocean, still with a great-looking UI (if not better). Now, prices are so bad that I have to choose between a bare metal server with 500 GB of SSD storage, 16-core CPU and 16 GB of RAM with OVH or a VM with 1/10 of that with Vultr. It doesn't make any sense. Also, Vultr has the nasty policy of topping your account $100 whenever you run out of money, even if your se", "context": "", "use_case": "hosting personal projects", "switched_from": "", "story": "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime"}, {"id": 751171072, "item_id": 46948192, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46948192", "by": "icedchai", "date": "2026-02-09", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You can definitely announce BGP from a VPS with some providers. I have been doing this for years. Vultr will do it.", "excerpt": "You may have been looking in the wrong spot? You can see plenty of prefixes in 192.160.0.0/16 currently announced. Check out https://stat.ripe.net/widget/routing-history When ARIN contacts you, it's through email. They send an email with a confirmation link, so that probably bounced. You can definitely announce BGP from a VPS with some providers. I have been doing this for years. Vultr will do it. However, they will ", "context": "", "use_case": "announcing BGP from a VPS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Running Your Own As: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing"}, {"id": 746219600, "item_id": 46638725, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46638725", "by": "jjcm", "date": "2026-01-15", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "no high or low praise for vultr, but they've been solid and cheap", "excerpt": "I feel like I get a ton of value out of a cheap VPS. Just having a dedicated IP I can serve small and dumb things from has been fantastic, doubly so now that LLMs can do most of the driving. https://lowendbox.com/ has a ton of providers, but I personally use vultr (no high or low praise for vultr, but they've been solid and cheap).", "context": "", "use_case": "cheap VPS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?"}, {"id": 743975810, "item_id": 46498488, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46498488", "by": "jscheel", "date": "2026-01-05", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "though I use vultr for other things", "excerpt": "Hah, I set up basically the same thing on Saturday during a long car ride. Couple of differences: I\u2019m an opencode user and I used a different VPS provider (though I use vultr for other things). It was my first time actually sitting down and using tailscale, which was quite easy to get going. Did everything from my phone, didn\u2019t even have my laptop with me.", "context": "", "use_case": "VPS hosting", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code On-the-Go"}]}