While taking a closer look at VULTR, I became very interested in their “$2.50 plan”, as it is half as much as you would have to pay for the same performance at similar providers. Now I wanted to deploy my permanent test and development VPS and was surprised to see that they were “sold out” in almost all regions.

I was very surprised to see VultR offering Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016. To my knowledge, it is the only VPS provider to do so. There is an additional monthly fee for the license, but the price is quie tolerable in my opinion. You don’t have to buy the license yourself and the instance is almost instantly available.

For the reasons of diversity and high availability I was looking for an alternative to DigitalOcean. Not that I was dissatisfied with their service, but it is always good to try new services and to spread your services between several providers. People on the IRC channel and posts on social media mentioned VULTR.