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VULTR Cloud Servers Limited Signup Promotion

It’s promotion time with VULTR! Get a head start with some free credits.

Promotion

VULTR has a promotion running for a limited time, when you sign up with this link below, use the coupon / promo code: VULTRMATCH and you will receive double the deposit in credits for up to $100. This applies to new customers only.

I’m not quite sure how long they will be running this promotion, but you can get $100 free in credits when you sign up. That is basically 20 months free hosting of a Cloud Server with 1CPU, 1GB RAM, 1TB Bandwidth.

Here’s the link:

About VULTR

If you are not familliar with VULTR, they are a Cloud Hosting Company that offers cloud servers, bare-metal servers and storage servers in 16 different regions and they provide a hourly billing model.

Below are some of their features:

  • 16 Locations: Silicon Valley, Seattle, LA, Dallas, Toronto, Miami, New Jersey, Chicago, Atlanta, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney
  • 100% SLA Guaranteed
  • Solid-State Drives (SSD)
  • Private Networking
  • Reserved IP’s
  • Anti-DDOS Support
  • Backups
  • DNS
  • Startup Scripts
  • Firewalls
  • Pretty Slick User Interface
  • Root Access
  • Hourly Billing
  • Deploy Applications Instantly to your Servers with App Deploys
  • OS Support: Linux, Windows and Custom Uploads
  • API Support
  • Great Documentation and Tutorials

They also allow you to submit articles to them that can earn you up to $300 per article, check it out here

VULTR Mission

From their website, their about us section states:

“Vultr, founded in 2014, is on a mission to empower developers and businesses by simplifying the deployment of infrastructure via its advanced cloud platform. Vultr is strategically located in 16 datacenters around the globe and provides frictionless provisioning of public cloud, storage and single-tenant bare metal.”

“Vultr has made it our priority to offer a standardized highly reliable high performance cloud compute environment in all of the cities we serve. Launching a cloud server environment in 16 cities around the globe has never been easier!”

Launching a Server

I decided to deploy a server pre-configured with Docker, and just about a minute I had my server up and running with Docker, ready to go.

Screenshot of the UI:

Screenshot of the root login:

Overall

I’m quite impressed with VULTR and the ease of use. The pricing is really good and like the fact that you can deploy servers with pre-configured software on it.

Thank You

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