Vultr
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
1recommend
2warn against
Jan 5, 2026first mention
Jul 5, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“They have no additional charge for BYOIP and you can use their private ASN if you don't have your own”
runs own ASNon “My ASN Journey series (2024)”
“You can definitely announce BGP from a VPS with some providers. I have been doing this for years. Vultr will do it.”
Caveats and dissent
“Vultr is by far the worst - some DC like Australia are pretty bad, lots of connectivity issues”
“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.”
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Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Hetzner increased dedicated server prices 3-4x 2 mentions
- My ASN Journey series (2024) 1 mention
- Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233 With Zero Downtime 1 mention
- Running Your Own As: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing 1 mention
- Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100? 1 mention
- Claude Code On-the-Go 1 mention
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All comments 7
“They have no additional charge for BYOIP and you can use their private ASN if you don't have your own”
“Vultr is by far the worst - some DC like Australia are pretty bad, lots of connectivity issues”
“I use it as a hosting target for automated deployment tooling we wrote.”
“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.”
“You can definitely announce BGP from a VPS with some providers. I have been doing this for years. Vultr will do it.”
“no high or low praise for vultr, but they've been solid and cheap”
“though I use vultr for other things”