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Vultr giving $100 for 60 days
Nice deal IMHO.
https://www.vultr.com/freetrial/
Require a $2.5 from your CC to test(will give it back later), but you can throw in $5 in your account to avoid this.
For those who want to help me out a little bit:
http://www.vultr.com/?ref=6805139
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What might be the catch? $100 free trial credits is good to be true for a $2.5 linked fee.
why does it have to be 60 days? i would like to keep my credits as long as i want.
Seems like a nice deal.
Maybe Vultr should join Github's student package... @DaveA
Well, it's Vultr, not GVH...I believe they do know what they are doing...
Vultr is not a large host like DO or Linode, they can't afford doing promos that would be even half-way generous, so all of their coupons or specials always have crappy conditions like that attached.
You may not like it, but Master_Bo should be very happy for his calculation instances.
This offer is not good for people with VULTR affiliates programs. With all that credit for 60 days, nobody will use any more of their own money for at least 60 days.
Now I get paid around $100 each month, since most of my signups pays after 30 days. But this will not happen with this new promotion. So I will think I will see a drop in payment fro Vultr so long this promo last.
from OP
what are you doing?
In my humble opinion, you shouldn't even earn money from webhosts when running a review site. You can declare your independence as often as you want, it always has that smell. Is there no chance to finance your site with other means or Adsense? This would add a lot of credibility to your reviews (which are not bad at all)!
Always said that I did not want to have ads on my sites. But of course, aff.links is a sorts of ads. I only have two affiliates that make me real money, Vultr and DO. And I still going to post honest reviews about them.
Etc, if you look at my last review of IwStack, I have a aff. link there also, but I was really honest about my issues with them, and that I have moved to another host for some time.
On my next review of Vultr (in some months) I will of course mention all the downtime in Amsterdam this week, but also that they gave a full month of credit for every instance in AMS that was affected. Thats is both a bad thing (all the downtime) but also a good thing with the free credit, without asking for it, and far beyond their SLA.
But I'm using lots of money on my hosting, with two spare live backup servers, DNS failover service etc etc, so I need some money in. I have since 2005 written reviews and used thousands of dollars on reviewing hosts, so time to get some back.
I will still only do review of host I actually use, and/or have plans to use.
What do you mean? It's allowed to post aff.links here at LET?
Or do you ask what we (I'm) doing so I "deserve" some aff.link income?
Se my signature about my review/benchmark site.
using VULTR VPS about 1 year and still love them
fuck off with the aff links.. click on a thread to see what the updates are and its just some d-bag aff beggers.
Is he forcing you to use aff. Links? If you have problem, then remove aff link and use simple one.
You already get $100/month in free money, and yet you're greedy for more? Disgusting
nope but I come to the thread to see/participate in the discussion, not to see douchebags trying to fight for a piece of the aff link action.
@myhken - I removed your aff link, sorry but this thread is about Vultr and what they are offering not what you are loosing as a result. It appeared like a begging request.
No issues with promoting an aff link where it is right to do so or adds value. But this thread will turn into a link fest as everyone else puts theirs up. So no.
I suggest you raise your issues with Vultr directly.
Because it's a trial for a paid service.
Ohn) no, not the aff link war again....
Hitler!
Deposit them from your own pocket then.
Vultr are providing 2 months free service up to the value of $100, how the hell is that anything but generous?
Because they know nobody needs $50/mo VPSes (more expensive than a beefy dedicated server), so that limitation on the credit makes it entirely useless, much worse than even $30-50 with a year's expiration time.
You can use the credit to create multiple VPS servers in several location then. 10 locations for two months, monitoring uptime, network, load etc. Then you really can test them out.
Yes, exactly!
That's a pretty sweet offer! Nicely done, Dave!
Spin up 2 $50 web servers, then get them to DoS each other, see which one wins! It's just like Robot Wars but even shitter!
Nice offer too bad that my account is old.
keep getting this error "PayPal may not be used with this promo." , okay lets try with CC payment.
Used 3 mastercard and 1 visa and signed up with my wife account, and use her cc, but declined all of those credit card. Lol ... like mirantis billing system, declined my card but actually they charged the card, and my bank noticed me there was $1 credited from my card lollllllllll
So always give readers a choice to get rid of the aff link...
How's RAID going?
I've heard of several cases where users are using the high-tier plans at Vultr. Are you basing this entirely on your own usage needs? Are you proposing the high-tier plans at Vultr are purely for show?
This offer is anything but entirely useless. Vultr are offering 2 months free service up to the value of $100. Though this I want this, I want that, spoilt brat routine is typical of the user base at LET.