Vultr Cloud Infrastructure

Vultr is a cloud infrastructure and hosting platform providing high-performance cloud compute instances, bare metal servers, block storage, and networking in over 30 global data center locations. Founded in 2014 by David Aninowsky (CEO), Vultr is headquartered in Matawan, New Jersey. The company has raised $150 million in growth funding from investors including AMD Ventures and LuminArx Capital in 2022, achieving a $3.5 billion valuation. Vultr serves over 1.5 million developers and businesses across 150 countries, competing with DigitalOcean, Linode, and Amazon Lightsail. Key features: cloud compute: deploy virtual machines (Vultr Cloud Compute) in seconds. Choose from over 30 global locations. Plans starting from $2.50/month with IPv6 included. High Frequency compute with dedicated CPUs and NVMe SSD storage. Bare metal: single-tenant dedicated servers with full hardware access. No virtualization overhead. Deploy in minutes. GPU cloud: NVIDIA GPU instances for AI, ML, rendering, and gaming workloads. Features A100, A40, A16, and RTX series GPUs. Kubernetes: managed Kubernetes (VKE - Vultr Kubernetes Engine) for container orchestration. Block storage: scalable NVMe-backed block storage attachable to compute instances. Object storage: S3-compatible object storage for backups, media files, and data lakes. Load balancers: managed load balancers distributing traffic across instances. Snapshots: capture point-in-time disk images. Schedule automatic snapshots. Firewall: managed network firewall with rule-based access control. DDoS protection available. DNS: managed DNS hosting. One-click apps: deploy popular applications (WordPress, Docker, LAMP, GitLab, Plesk, cPanel) with one click. Marketplace: community-contributed application templates. Reserved IPs. Custom ISO: upload and boot from custom ISO images. API: comprehensive REST API and CLI for automation. Cloud-init support. Terraform provider. HTML/CSS/JS/Go. Proprietary.