Vultr vs. DigitalOcean - Vultr.com

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Invest in the future of your business. Invest in the future of the cloud. Invest in affordable cloud infrastructure with Vultr.

We recently migrated our managed WordPress hosting from DigitalOcean to Vultr to expand our global reach, scale our services, and unlock new performance capabilities for our members. Since migrating to Vultr, we've seen a steady and significant growth in revenue. This has been made possible by providing our members with more cloud data center regions and Vultr’s enormously impressive high frequency plans.We have also been thrilled with Vultr's unwavering support; it truly is world-class. We look forward to continuing to work with Vultr and exploring new possibilities for our platform and members.

- Savo Vujovic
Chief Business Officer, Incsub
Delivering unrivaled
price-to-performance

Vultr can save 20-40% on your DigitalOcean cloud bill. We are continually investing in delivering higher performance and unrivaled global reach with 32 cloud data centers worldwide. DigitalOcean? Higher prices with only a third as many cloud data center regions.

Innovating in cloud infrastructure

Vultr has pioneered a broad range of cloud infrastructure services to power new and emerging cloud initiatives. With optimized and high frequency cloud compute, bare metal, and cloud GPU, Vultr is here to help you lower costs and deliver the optimal cloud solutions for any application or initiative.

Providing best-in-class marketplace of 3rd party services

Vultr has invested in expanding its marketplace of pre-built cloud integrations to help you build a best-in-class cloud infrastructure stack faster and at lower cost. Leverage best-in-class services to seamlessly integrate and optimize cloud solutions for enhanced performance and reliability.

Independent and focused on delivering the best

Vultr is focused on meeting the needs of customers, not boosting its stock price. As a private, bootstrapped company, we don’t need to focus on the needs of shareholders.

More regions, lower latency

Nothing affects perceived latency more than proximity to servers. Vultr is available in 32 global regions, while DigitalOcean only has 10. Give your users the fastest experience possible.

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Frankfurt Germany
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Honolulu, Hawaii United States
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17 regions
Location
Toronto - Canada
Toronto - Canada
Mexico City - Mexico
Mexico City - Mexico
São Paulo - Brazil
São Paulo - Brazil
Warsaw - Poland
Warsaw - Poland
Atlanta - United States
Atlanta - Georgia
Honolulu - United States
Honolulu - Hawaii
Chicago - Illinois
Chicago - Illinois
Dallas - Texas
Dallas - Texas
Los Angeles - California
Los Angeles - California
Miami - Florida
Miami - Florida
New York Area
New York Area
San Francisco Bay Area - CA
San Francisco Bay Area - CA
Seattle - Washington
Seattle - Washington
Amsterdam - Netherlands
Amsterdam - Netherlands
London - United Kingdom
London - United Kingdom
Frankfurt - Germany
Frankfurt - Germany
Paris - France
Paris - France
Madrid - Spain
Madrid - Spain
Stockholm - Sweden
Stockholm - Sweden
Tokyo - Japan
Tokyo - Japan
Seoul - Korea, Republic of
Seoul - Korea, Republic of
Singapore - Singapore
Singapore - Singapore
Bangalore - India
Bangalore - India
Sydney - Australia
Sydney - Australia
Melbourne -Australia
Melbourne - Australia
Mumbai - India
Mumbai - India
Delhi NCR - India
Delhi NCR - India
Santiago - Chile
Santiago - Chile
Tel Aviv-Yafo - Israel
Tel Aviv-Yafo - Israel
Johannesburg - South Africa
Johannesburg - South Africa
Osaka - Japan
Osaka - Japan
Manchester - United Kingdom
Manchester - United Kingdom
Location
Toronto - Canada
Toronto - Canada
Mexico City - Mexico
Mexico City - Mexico
Atlanta - United States
Atlanta - Georgia
Honolulu - United States
Honolulu - Hawaii
Chicago - Illinois
Chicago - Illinois
Dallas - Texas
Dallas - Texas
Los Angeles - California
Los Angeles - California
Miami - Florida
Miami - Florida
New York Area
New York Area
San Francisco Bay Area - CA
San Francisco Bay Area - CA
Seattle - Washington
Seattle - Washington
Location
São Paulo - Brazil
São Paulo - Brazil
Santiago - Chile
Santiago - Chile
Location
Amsterdam - Netherlands
Amsterdam - Netherlands
London - United Kingdom
London - United Kingdom
Frankfurt - Germany
Frankfurt - Germany
Paris - France
Paris - France
Madrid - Spain
Madrid - Spain
Stockholm - Sweden
Stockholm - Sweden
Warsaw - Poland
Warsaw - Poland
Manchester - United Kingdom
Manchester - United Kingdom
Location
Tokyo - Japan
Tokyo - Japan
Osaka - Japan
Osaka - Japan
Seoul - Korea, Republic of
Seoul - Korea, Republic of
Singapore - Singapore
Singapore - Singapore
Mumbai - India
Mumbai - India
Delhi NCR - India
Delhi NCR - India
Tel Aviv-Yafo - Israel
Tel Aviv-Yafo - Israel
Bangalore - India
Bangalore - India
Location
Sydney - Australia
Sydney - Australia
Melbourne - Australia
Melbourne - Australia
Location
Johannesburg - South Africa
Johannesburg - South Africa

The support you need

Receive full access to Vultr’s support resources at no additional cost.
Full support offered at no additional cost
 Requires paid plans for full support
100% uptime SLA
 99.0%-99.99% uptime SLA depending on the product

Greater control over team permissions

Ensure your team can only access what they need to for added security and peace of mind with more comprehensive identity and access management tools.
Team members have unique API keys
Team members can be prohibited from managing specific types of instances such as storage, Kubernetes, or servers
 Team members either have access to all or none of the team's instances
Team members can be restricted from creating and managing support tickets
Team members can be restricted from managing security settings such as firewalls
 Team members either have access to all shared resources or none of them

Compute for every use case

Some workloads need bare metal servers, high frequency compute, or the power of GPUs.
Virtual Private Servers
High Frequency Compute
Bare Metal CPU
Globally available GPUs
 GPUs only available in four locations worldwide

Advanced networking tools

A wider range of networking tools gives you the options you need for your cloud, all with predictable, transparent pricing.
Cloud Firewalls
Advanced CDN with manual control over push and pull zones
 Basic CDN with no manual control over push or pull zones
Bandwidth transfer allotment pooled across instance types
Direct private network connections to other cloud providers and on-prem data centers

Certifications you can trust

Operating globally, Vultr takes great care to ensure compliance with global regulations and data privacy best practices. We’ve undergone comprehensive compliance audits to ensure our platform exceeds industry standards.
SOC 2 Type 2
HIPAA
PCI-DSS Merchant
CSA STAR Level 1
ISO 20000
ISO 27001/2
PCI-DSS Service Provider
EEA/GDPR
India DPDPA
Brazil LGPD
U.S. State-level: CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, IN, IA, MT, NJ, OR, TN, TX, UT, VA
FedRAMP
 in progress
ISO 27017
 in progress
ISO 27018
 in progress
MeritY accreditation
 in progress

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Explore Vultr's full range of cloud compute services

High Frequency Cloud Compute

High clock speed CPUs deliver up to a 40% increase in performance over standard offerings for hosted websites and applications with faster page response times and I/O.

CPUs starting at $6.00/month

Optimized Cloud Compute

Fully dedicated, high-performance CPUs address the most-demanding challenges without noisy neighbors, including CPU-optimized, memory-optimized, and storage-optimized instances.

Starting at $28.00/month

Bare Metal

Stay in full control of your environment with high performance single-tenant dedicated servers powered by high-performance CPUs from AMD and Intel.

Starting at $120.00/month

Cloud GPU

Unleash the full potential of artificial intelligence, machine learning, VFX, and VDI with Cloud GPU. Empower your projects with unparalleled performance and adaptability by deploying on Cloud Compute, Bare Metal, and Vultr Kubernetes Engine for superior scaling capabilities.

Starting at $0.03/hour

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Experience the power of Vultr's global infrastructure and unrivaled price-to-performance advantage over DigitalOcean. Make the switch today and enjoy your first 3 months absolutely free – up to $100,000.

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