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Vultr Cloud Computing Platform Review
"The Everywhere Cloud"
Note: Pricing information is correct as of January 23rd, 2026 and is subject to change.
With headquarters in West Palm Beach, Florida, Vultr has 32 cloud data center regions around the globe. Vultr is not publicly traded but has a $3.5 Billion USD valuation. Datacenters are located across the Americas, Europe. Australia, Asia & Africa.
Linux offerings include Alma Linux, Alpine, Arch, CentOS, Debian, Fedora, Fedora CoreOS, Flatcar Container Linux, Rocky, Ubuntu & openSUSE distributions. BSD support includes FreeBSD & OpenBSD.
Plans start at $2.50/month with a shared CPU. 10 GB storage, 512MB memory & 0.5TB bandwidth. Cloud GPU servers for AI/Machine Learning are available. For apporoximately ~$5,600 / month you can have a high performance server with 960 GB RAM, 1700 GB Storage & 25 TB / month bandwidth.
Vultr Shared CPU Plans
| vCPUs | Memory | Storage | Transfer | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 GB RAM | 25 GB SSD | 1 TB | $5/month |
| 1 | 1 GB RAM | 32 GB SSD | 1 TB | $6/month |
| 1 | 1 GB RAM | 25 GB SSD | 2 TB | $6/month |
| 1 | 2 GB RAM | 55 GB SSD | 2 TB | $10/month |
| 1 | 2 GB RAM | 64 GB SSD | 2 TB | $12/month |
| 1 | 2 GB RAM | 50 GB SSD | 3 TB | $12/month |
| 2 | 2 GB RAM | 64 GB SSD | 3 TB | $15/month |
| 2 | 2 GB RAM | 80 GB SSD | 3 TB | $18/month |
| 2 | 4 GB RAM | 80 GB SSD | 3 TB | $20/month |
| 2 | 4 GB RAM | 128 GB SSD | 3 TB | $24/month |
| 2 | 4 GB RAM | 100 GB SSD | 5 TB | $24/month |
| 4 | 8 GB RAM | 160 GB SSD | 4 TB | $40/month |
| 3 | 8 GB RAM | 256 GB SSD | 4 TB | $48/month |
| 4 | 8 GB RAM | 180 GB SSD | 6 TB | $48/month |
| 4 | 12 GB RAM | 260 GB SSD | 7 TB | $72/month |
| 6 | 16 GB RAM | 320 GB SSD | 5 TB | $80/month |
| 8 | 32 GB RAM | 640 GB SSD | 6 TB | $160/month |
| 16 | 64 GB RAM | 1280 GB SSD | 10 TB | $320/month |
| 24 | 96 GB RAM | 1600 GB SSD | 15 TB | $640/month |
Features include: 100% Uptime SLA ( Service Level Agreement ), DDoS protection, usage graphing, backups, cloud firewall, load balancers, web console for ssh logins & Cloud Storage options. Managed databases ( Valkey, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka ), Cloud GPU for AI / Machine Learning. One-Click deploy ( Wordpress, Docker & Anaconda )
ISOs are updated promptly as different distribution versions are released.
Vultr blocks port 25 (smtp) and appears to be blocking 587 ( secure smtp ). You can request Vultr open these ports but you will need a very good reason. My request was denied.
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Vultr Server & Network Metrics Graphing
