⭐⭐ Misleading latency claims for Tokyo Vultr support tested latency from their TY6 datacenter showing 0.14ms to AWS Tokyo - impressive! Problem: After 4 bare metal deployments,... See more
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As they say there one of the best server provider, they do not have live chat support. I have submitted the ticket but they have not replied yet, as its been 4 hours. It took me more than 3 days to simple server setup process and still not completed.

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I signed up for Vultr because of the $250 promotional credit. After completing account verification, the credit disappeared the next day without any clear explanation. It showed up initially, then suddenly it was gone as if it never existed.
There was no warning, no email, and no transparent reason provided. This feels very misleading, especially for new users who sign up specifically because of the advertised credit.
I understand companies have rules, but removing promotional credit without clear communication is not professional. It creates confusion and distrust.
I would advise new users to be very careful and not rely on promotional credits unless everything is clearly confirmed in writing.

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⭐⭐ Misleading latency claims for Tokyo
Vultr support tested latency from their TY6 datacenter showing
0.14ms to AWS Tokyo - impressive!
Problem: After 4 bare metal deployments, ALL landed in TY11
with 2.7-4ms latency (20x worse). Support confirmed:
- No way to select TY6 location
- No plans to increase TY6 capacity
- No notification when TY6 available
They test from infrastructure customers can't access.
Wasted hours and money testing servers that all landed
in the same slow location.
For low-latency Tokyo hosting, look elsewhere.

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ABSOLUTELY AVOID THIS COMPANY
REMOVE ALL YOUR SAVED CARDS YOU HAVE ON FILE BECAUSE THEY WILL CHARGE YOU RANDOM AMOUNTS WITHOUT YOUR KNOWING, AND REFUSE TO GIVE A REFUND.
HOW THEY ARE STILL IN BUSINESS IS BEYOND ME.
SCAMMERS.

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Awful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am newbie in this BS. All I wanted was to deploy an instance. Been on it for an hour and a half. It says deploy but what? There's no instruction whatsoever. Whats the point of offering a service if you don't have designated staff to help. I feel so defeated that just going to cancel and look for a better company. I get it who cares about newbies but geez man

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SCAM
I just register my account and already paid $50 with paypal yesterday but till today my account cannot active! i was email the contact support but no response till nowadays

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SCAM ALERT 🛑🛑🛑🛑
Be careful after registering they will offer you a promotion to bait you into depositing as much money as possible claiming they would double your money, after that, once your balance is used up, they will tell you opps your payment method was used before and you will get no promotion and nothing it's all a scam.
I choose to deposit $25, then my balance appeared to be $50. After my $25 was used up, they removed my other $25 and claimed my payment method was used before.
Edit 1: Their response here is full of lies. I AM A NEW CUSTOMER. This is my first and only account on vultr and I SENT YOU THE PROOF multiple times.
I asked you 6 times for a proof of duplicate accounts and received 0 evidence, absolutely nothing, not even a response to the question, they never even address the question they just repeat the same garbage. They cannot provide a proof NOTHING 0. I DARE YOU TO PROVIDE A PROOF.

Reply from Vultr
We run a webshop selling services. Vultr shut down our website server preemptively over a third-party trademark complaint, without any court order or factual determination. This happened within 12 hours after we provided a substantive response to their notice. No meaningful dialogue was possible, only an ultimatum to remove content or face full suspension within 48 hours. Having major impact on our SEO authority. Our legal explanations were ignored entirely. The lack of phone support makes it impossible to escalate or resolve time-sensitive abuse issues in a reasonable way. This is pure risk-avoidance at the expense of customers, not fair or professional hosting. We remain open to constructive dialogue and would welcome an opportunity to resolve this matter.

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Good hosting provider, never had any issues in 5y period, only had to contact support once. Uptime is 99,999%. Keep up the good work guys!

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Scam company
these people don't know the basics of troubleshooting, we have been trying to solve payments issues for months. they always blame your bank. while using the same card works sometimes to pass a little bit of the due payment, we managed to survive.
We recently opened a ticket to solve the payment issue., they answer and immediately mark the ticket as closed. No meaning reply, no actual problem solving, just beginner level troubleshooting.
then what ? they suspend the account and cause the company to have their server down for days without even caring about actually solving your problem, not being even able to save ourselves and transfer the server to another provider until you pay, but guess what, YOU CAN'T PAY

Reply from Vultr
I've been with Vultr since 2016. Used them to host my client websites and services. My only gripe with Vultr is their online support, which can be a real hit-and-miss. In my experience, support doesn't feel very proactive, just lazy replies (not all the time, but most of the time in my experience).
I don't know why they're getting such terrible 1-3 star reviews though. As otherwise, the service is great. I've had some real headaches with them, but I've yet to meet a company that doesn't give me headaches :)
For what you pay, you get a good deal.

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Impossible to use. Ran into issues at literally every single step. And steps in between that I didn't even know existed.
First they draw you in with a large amount of promotional credit but it is actually impossible to use. I talked to support more than 4 separate times, each time to get them to disable some new arbitrary block on my account, one time having to deposit even more money in order to do so, only to finally be stopped at the end with them telling me I can't use their service because the cost of the server ($2/hr - pretty lower-middle of the road gpu tier) would go over my arbitrary monthly payment limit if I were to run the server for an entire month straight. Something that I would not even come CLOSE to doing with my use case. So even though I only needed to use this for a few hours a week here and there, I'm effectively locked to the absolute lowest tier gpu's for no reason that I could discern.
They also said that while I could request an increase in my limit after a month of use, intermittent use like I was planning does not constitute regular usage and I would have to have it deployed for a solid month entirely in order to qualify for an increase. So essentially I am locked out of every gpu but the very lowest possible tier forever with no way to increase without paying for at least 1 entire month or something that they charge by the hour for. I have no doubt that even if I did that however, there would be some new reason why I can't use it
Completely insane waste of time and money.

Reply from Vultr
I recently purchased a server from Vultr expecting to receive the full CPU performance I paid for. My use case was extremely simple — downloading files and zipping them using a standard zip archiver. No heavy workloads, no crypto mining, nothing excessive.
Yet Vultr suddenly limited my CPU across my entire account.
The message they sent me was:
“Based on monitoring results, your CPU resource utilization profile is excessive and causing performance issues which may unfairly affect the population of Vultr subscribers as a whole. Accordingly, we have limited the maximum CPU resources your instances can consume.”
This is extremely disappointing for a few reasons:
1️⃣ You pay for a dedicated amount of CPU — but they can throttle it anytime
Even after paying for the machine and expecting consistent performance, Vultr can reduce your CPU speed without warning. This means you are not truly getting the resources you purchased.
2️⃣ My usage was normal
I was simply using the server to:
download files
zip them
This is basic, everyday usage. If even this is considered “excessive,” then what is the point of offering a server with a certain CPU tier?
3️⃣ Account-wide CPU limits are unfair
Instead of limiting one instance, they reduced CPU performance for my entire account.
This affects all my servers, even those not doing anything wrong.
4️⃣ This policy is not clearly explained before purchase
If Vultr reserves the right to silently throttle paid performance, customers should be warned clearly before buying.
5️⃣ Not good value for money
When you pay for a machine, you expect what you paid for — not an artificial slowdown.
⭐ Final Verdict
Vultr may offer affordable VPS options, but their CPU throttling practices make the performance unreliable. Paying for a server does NOT guarantee you’ll get the full CPU you paid for. Even normal workloads can trigger hidden limits.
I cannot recommend Vultr to users who need stable, consistent, and guaranteed performance.

Reply from Vultr
Dont use this service they will ask for screenshots of your credit cards, selfies and also finally when you refuse they will force to get credit card screenshots from you which is very strange.
I suspect this company is run by scammers and hackers.

Reply from Vultr
I’ve been using Vultr for a while, and unfortunately my recent experience has been one of the worst I’ve ever had with a hosting provider.
The support team feels completely unprepared for real system administration tasks. The responses I received were generic, unhelpful, and gave me the impression that the staff lacked even basic understanding of what they were talking about.
What pushed me over the edge was an incident where one of my servers became completely inaccessible, and the way the situation was handled resulted in data loss on my side. I understand issues can happen anywhere, but the lack of proper investigation, communication, and responsibility made everything far worse.
This is just my experience, but for me it’s enough to say: be very careful if you are considering Vultr, especially if your project depends on stability and competent technical support.

Reply from Vultr
Response to reply: Why did you not let me cancel when I was ready? I did not have time to retrieve some of my software and data because you just cancelled my account immediately without notice. All because I didn't want to wait a whole month to get an SMTP port opened!!! Not only is that not nice, but it is also a vicious action. Hopefully, people will take notice and not do business with Vultr!
Original Review:
I have had an account with Vultr for a year or more and wanted to set up a Mailcow email server. So asked them to open SMTP ports. They told us to wait 30 days. Can't do that, so told them we will go elsewhere and cancel the account. It wasn't but 2 minutes, and they closed the account immediately. Nice people! We'll never do business with them again! Beware Vultr! I wish I had a copy of their response to post here, but unfortunately, I didn't copy it. Shocked by how they handle their customers. Guess they have plenty of customers, so they don't care.

Reply from Vultr
I will buy a server for 1740 USD(+daň) , it reaches 100% CPU for a few minutes, and immediately they reduced the performance to a minimum!
Supposedly automatically to 48 hidins.
But 3 days have already passed. And nothing was removed.
Well, I immediately contacted support, she refused to talk to me about the topic at all.
And they always just dragged out the communication and didn't solve the problem.
And when the problem should have been solved, they created a new ticket where no one answered my 15 messages.
NEVER AGAIN!

Reply from Vultr
This is very bad company. I have created my first VPS and after using only one day I got an email you have excessive CPU utilisation and after few hours Vultr blocked my account and my deposited amount $10 also blocked. According to my experience if you were serious business owner and your business have huge amount of traffic then kindly please don't risk your business on vultr. They will anytime suspend your account and your server without any reason they have many hidden terms and condition regarding server resources utilisation like CPU, RAM and also bandwidth.
Finally I have advised to all of you please don't use their any services otherwise your account will be terminated anytime without any hidden reason please go away from this company and save your business midnight.
Thank You.

Reply from Vultr
Can't even sign up for an account, the button simply does not work.
Judging by the reviews I dodged a bullet.

Reply from Vultr
I signed up for a VPS that I thought would meet my needs but they limited my CPU usage. No problem I thought, I'd just upgrade my plan to one that had enough CPU. However they refused to remove the limitations and just stopped responding after my second email.
Don't risk it. Just go to a proper hosting provider.

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