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Yes, instances in a stopped state continue to reserve dedicated system resources (RAM, SSD storage, IP aliases, vCPU) and therefore incur charges until you destroy the instance. If you wish to no longer accumulate charges for a virtual machine, please use the DESTROY button in the customer portal.
We have not charged your card. What you have observed is a temporary authorization in order to validate the card provided. The hold will automatically expire based on your bank's policy, generally within a few days.
Check out the full list of Vultr pricing available on our pricing page.
At Vultr, we attempt to keep cloud pricing as consistent as possible globally. However, due to variation in regional costs (such as networking, hardware, labor, taxes, and fees), certain global data center locations may have different per hour and per month pricing for Vultr cloud services. Current data center location pricing is always available in the Control Panel.
No, Windows licenses are not included in the base price. Plans with a Windows license incur an additional cost that varies based on compute plan selection which can be foundhere.
All servers on your account are billed hourly, with charges capped at 672 hours per month for most plans to ensure predictable costs. However, the hourly rate is calculated based on a 730-hour month, which reflects the average number of hours in a month. If your server is online continuously, you will not be charged more than the 672-hour cap for that month. Accumulated charges are invoiced to your account on the 1st of each month.
All servers on your account are billed hourly up to the monthly rate cap. The hourly rate is determined by dividing the monthly rate by 672 hours (28 days). If your server is online for more than 672 hours in a calendar month, you will only be billed the monthly rate. Accumulated charges are invoiced to your account on the 1st of every month.
If you upgrade your instance to a larger plan, the instance will appear on separate invoice line items in the month you upgraded. Each line item will bill at the hourly rate associated with the plan for the actual number of hours during that period of time. Because of this, you may be billed more than 672 hours (up to the actual number of hours in that month) during a month that you have upgraded your instance.
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If you upgrade your server to a larger plan during a billing cycle, your invoice will show separate line items for each plan. Each plan is billed at its hourly rate for the time it was active. While your invoice may show more than 672 hours across line items due to the split, the total billed hours will never exceed the actual hours in the month (e.g., 720 hours in a 30-day month). This ensures your charges remain consistent and fair.
Starting October 1, 2024, Vultr GPU products will use a 730-hour monthly billing model, aligning with the industry standard for hourly calculations. Unlike other plans, which cap charges at 672 hours per month, GPU products are billed for the actual number of hours in each calendar month—for example, 720 hours in a 30-day month or 744 hours in a 31-day month. This change ensures transparent and consistent pricing. For instance, if a GPU plan previously billed $0.179 per hour for 672 hours, it will now bill at $0.165 per hour based on the updated 730-hour calculation.
We accept Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, JCB, BitPay (BTC, BCH, ETH, DOGE, PAX, BUSD, LTC, USDC, GUSD), Alipay, UnionPay, and PayPal. Depending on your geographic region, Paypal supports additional payment networks, including Giropay and bank transfers.
Vultr.com is required to collect tax in several countries around the world. This tax is generally referred to as VAT (Value Added Tax), consumption tax, or sales tax. Prices listed on our website do not include tax. Tax will be added to your invoice as a separate line item.
| Country | Rate | Local Tax ID |
|---|---|---|
| Armenia | 20% | 02897318 |
| Australia | 10% | 300013975724 |
| Belarus | 20% | 102402182 |
| Cambodia | 10% | L001-902301861 |
| Canada |
5% -
15% (varies by province/territory)
Only for services supplied by Canadian datacenters |
856058961RT0001 |
| Chile | 19% | 593069508 |
| Egypt | 14% | 752217186 |
| European Union | 17% - 27% (varies by country) | EU372005690 |
| Georgia | 18% | 000000028 |
| Iceland | 24% | 671221-9660 |
| India | 18% | 9921USA29043OSK |
| Isle of Man | 20% | 380 7144 00 |
| Japan | 10% | T5700150084131 |
| Kazakhstan | 12% | |
| Kenya | 16% | P052079702B |
| Korea, Republic of | 10% | 699-80-01382 |
| Malaysia | 8% | 20000254 |
| Moldova, Republic of | 20% | E840000000025 |
| New Zealand | 15% | 129-999-861 |
| Nigeria | 7.5% | 24063957 |
| Norway | 25% | 2057433 |
| Pakistan | 5% | 9309378 |
| Peru | 18% | 20613882082 |
| Puerto Rico | 11.5% | 550-002-06439-23456 |
| Russian Federation | 20% | 9909537159 |
| Saudi Arabia | 15% | 311220567700003 |
| Singapore | 9% | M90374177T |
| South Africa | 15% | 4570292419 |
| Switzerland | 8.1% | CHE-477.904.393 MWST |
| Taiwan | 5% | 72969611 |
| Tanzania, United Republic of | 18% | 165-833-821 |
| Thailand | 7% | 0-9930-00460-35-9 |
| Turkey | 20% | 8430763443 |
| Ukraine | 20% | 880025821 |
| United Arab Emirates | 5% | 100541170500003 |
| United Kingdom | 20% | 380 7144 00 |
| Arizona (USA) | 5.6% - 11.1% (varies by address) | 21338329 |
| Connecticut (USA) | 1% | 78750510-001 |
| District of Columbia (USA) | 6% | 350-001614202 |
| Hawaii (USA) | 4.5% | GE-086-845-7472-01 |
| Illinois (USA) | 11% (Chicago address) | 409342 |
| Massachusetts (USA) | 6.25% | 10751897 |
| New Mexico (USA) | 5.25% - 9.4375% (varies by address) | 03642041007-GRT |
| Rhode Island (USA) | 7% | 2-5539-4414 |
| South Dakota (USA) | 4.2% - 7.2% (varies by address) | FL203840 |
| Texas (USA) |
6.25% -
8.25% (varies by address)
Only 80% of the invoice is taxed |
RT204088 |
| Washington (USA) | 7.5% - 10.6% (varies by address) | 604027272 |
Your account will be eligible for more substantial limit increases as it builds a credible history. To review your limits, please go to: https://my.vultr.com/billing/#billinglimits. To request a limit increase, please open a ticket and identify your use case for review.
In some locations, we are required by law to consider other account details, like different payment addresses or IP addresses. Your tax location is typically based on your account address, which is initially set to the payment address of your primary payment method when you sign up. Changes made to tax information, including tax location, are not retroactive and only apply to subsequent finalized invoices.
Please contact support for help updating your Account Tax settings.
After updating your account profile with a Valid Tax ID at https://my.vultr.com/settings/#settingsprofile, you must contact support and attach a copy of your Taxpayer Registration Certificate to the ticket. A customer service representative will confirm once the account’s pending tax update is verified.
We require a copy of your Taxpayer Registration Certificate and a valid TAX ID.
An instance with automatic backups enabled will have a 20% higher base monthly/hourly fee.
Stored snapshots will cost $0.05/GB per month - pricing subject to change.
DDoS Protection adds 10Gbps of mitigation capacity per instance and costs an additional $10/mo.
Invoices for cloud hosting services prior to January 1st 2017 00:00 UTC represent start and end times in the United States Eastern Standard Time zone. All invoices after this date will reflect start and end times in UTC.
We do not bill in local currency to keep our pricing stable and consistent rather than fluctuating with exchange rates. All services and invoices are in USD.
You can download a .CSV or .PDF version of your invoice from your customer billing portal at: https://my.vultr.com/billing/#billinghistory .
You can add authorized account users to specify multiple billing contacts. The Account holder can customize account user notifications and settings at https://my.vultr.com/settings/#settingsusers. Users must be granted 'Manage Billing' and 'Create support ticket access.
Please be sure to include your account email in all wire memos. Our accounts team will need this to apply the funds as swiftly as possible. Wires typically process on an account within 3-5 business days. Please open a support ticket with the wire confirmation information if the funds have yet to be applied to your account within seven business days. Should you require an extension of payment due to a delay in the transfer, you must open a support ticket to request so.
When you have more than one payment method saved to your account, the most recent one you add becomes the default payment method and will be charged automatically each billing cycle. Previous payment methods are marked as backups. To remove a saved payment method, click the … menu of the payment method, then click Delete. In the Confirm Delete Card window that opens, click Delete to remove the card. You cannot remove the default payment method on the account. If you prefer manual payment, adding additional funds in advance or upon receipt of a funding notice is possible. Our system will not initiate an auto-payment.
Card declines can occur due to various factors, and bank declines often lack specific details. It's also not uncommon for a card to work correctly in some situations but encounter issues in others. We suggest contacting your bank directly to understand why your payment was declined and uncover the root cause. They will be best equipped to provide you with specific details and assistance. Another option is to attempt your transaction directly through PayPal or one of our supported payment methods.
PayPal will require users to have a backup funding source, such as a credit card or a bank account on file, to activate billing agreements with https://www.vultr.com. Please visit PayPal and review your account’s linked payment methods.
No, we do not offer refunds. If you have additional questions, please contact support.
Before canceling your account, please destroy all active VPS Instances, reserved IPs, storage, and/or snapshots. Service termination requests must be processed through your client portal at https://my.vultr.com/billing/cancel/.
We calculate your bandwidth usage based on your outbound traffic. Vultr does not charge for inbound traffic.
Your bandwidth cap is the total of your free bandwidth, instance bandwidth, and any purchased bandwidth. For billing purposes, each month has 672 hours, and bandwidth allocations are made hourly throughout the month. An overage charge will be applied if you exceed your currently-allocated bandwidth at any point during the month.
Invoices for cloud hosting services prior to January 1st 2017 00:00 UTC represent start and end times in the United States Eastern Standard Time zone. All invoices after this date will reflect start and end times in UTC.
Two factor authentication allows you to configure an additional means of authentication on your account. When logging into Vultr, you are prompted with an additional login step after entering your password. This adds extra security to your account. We support Google Authenticator and Yubikey devices. Authy was previously supported, but has since been removed.
Yes, servers in a "stopped" state continue to reserve the machine for your use and therefore incur charges until you release this server. If you wish to no longer accumulate charges for a server, please use the DESTROY button in the customer portal.
Your billing depends on which tier you have chosen. All tiers have the following benefits:
File storage included: 1000 GB
Inbound data transfer: Included
Outbound data transfer included: 1000 GB per month
Additional outbound data transfer $0.01 per GB
The tiers with their prices and additional details are below.
Standard Tier: Object storage is priced at $18.00 per month and your additional storage will be priced at $0.018 per GB.
Premium Tier: Object storage is priced at $36.00 per month and your additional storage will be priced at $0.036 per GB.
Performance Tier: Object storage is priced at $50.00 per month and your additional storage will be priced at $0.050 per GB.
Accelerated Tier: Object storage is priced at $100.00 per month and your additional storage will be priced at $0.100 per GB.
Vultr Load Balancers starts at $10.00 per subscription, but pricing may vary depending on the data center location where you choose to deploy.Learn More
Vultr Sub-Accounts is an account management feature that allows you to create, monitor, and manage multiple accounts linked to your main Vultr account. Each sub-account functions as an independent profile with the ability to deploy any type of resources, with billing directed to your main Vultr account. This setup facilitates an organizational structure that separates specific accounts while sharing billing information.
To enable sub-account billing roll-up and set up the Parent/Child account structure, you need to open a support ticket and request this feature to be enabled on your account. By default, accounts are not enabled for the Parent/Child setup. Please contact our support team so we can assist you with this process.
The Parent Account is your main Vultr account. At the end of each billing cycle, it inherits all billing charges for the attached sub-accounts. The Parent Account holds the primary billing information and is responsible for the financial management of all linked sub-accounts.
A Child Account is a Vultr sub-account with full functionality and access to all Vultr services. It can deploy any type of infrastructure resource and is directly linked to the Parent Account, which inherits the billing charges. The Child Account operates independently but shares the billing information with the Parent Account.
You can manage the billing information of multiple accounts by linking them to a single Parent Account. This allows for a consolidated view of all billing charges and simplifies the financial management of multiple accounts under one main billing entity.
The benefits of using Vultr Sub-Accounts include:
Learn about Vultr's compliance.
Vultr is committed to transparent and secure handling of all personal data on our network. Our processes have gone through an extensive procedural and legal review to ensure we fully meet the requirements set forth in the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation.
Vultr acts as both a data controller and a data processor. Vultr acts as a data controller for customer information that we collect to process payments and provide customer support. When a customer uses our services to process personal data, Vultr acts as a data processor.
If GDPR applies to your organization and you need a DPA to satisfy GDPR requirements, Vultr will provide a DPA for eSignature. Please contact your account manager and/or make a request through the customer support system here.
We've created a step by step document that shows you how to delete all your hosted data in our Vultr Docs section. Please review this guide: https://www.vultr.com/docs/vultr-data-portability-guide/.
Learn about Vultr's products and features.
See our full list of operating systems.
Yes, with the Upload ISO feature, you can upload your own bootable operating system image, mount it onto your instances and run through the setup process.
Yes, you can access the console for your virtual machine using the control panel.
Yes, we allow custom reverse DNS entries for your virtual machine IPs. You can update reverse dns information directly from your customer portal.
Subscribers may create snapshots of any active instance at any time. We understand the importance of creating backups of all critical files/content/configurations and encourage all Vultr.com subscribers to maintain current backups as part of organizational business continuity planning and execution. We also offer daily automated backups - read more details about automatic backups.
Yes, IPv6 is available in all of our 32 locations!
No, your instances grant you full root access and are entirely self-managed.
Many of our plans come with one primary IPv4 address. Up to two additional addresses are available for an extra fee.
Please see our documentation for a list of blocked ports.
In some instances, outbound traffic to the SMTP port may be blocked for new accounts. If you encounter this restriction, contact our support team from the customer portal.
In order to achieve the highest possible virtualized performance, all of our host machines use the latest-gen Intel vCPU architecture with 100% SSD storage.
We utilize KVM ( Kernel-based Virtual Machine ) on all of our infrastructure.
By default, instances will have a clean OS install without these additional packages but you will have full root/administrator to install any additional software you require. If you prefer that your instances come with some pre-packaged software already setup, we do offer a suite of one-click applications that add some popular packages, including cPanel/WHM, LEMP, OpenVPN, and more. See the full list of one click applications.
No, instances do not come with a cPanel license by default. cPanel licenses are available for an additional monthly charge.
| Package | Accounts | $/Month (USD) |
| Admin | Up to 5 accounts | $29.99 |
| Pro | Up to 30 accounts | $42.99 |
| Plus | Up to 50 accounts | $52.99 |
| Premier | Up to 100 accounts | $59.99 |
| Premier + Bulk Accounts | 100 Accounts + | $59.99 + $0.45 each account over 100 |
Dedicated Cloud instances offer resources allocated to you with no noisy neighbors. You can rent 25%, 50%, 75%, or an entire dedicated server with the advantages of the Vultr platform including hourly billing and fast provisioning.
Bare Metal instances offer direct access to dedicated servers with no noisy neighbors. Compared to compute instances which are deployed in a virtualized cloud environment, bare metal grants you unrestricted access to the underlying physical servers making these servers suitable for even the most resource intensive workloads.
Vultr Bare Metal supports a wide range of our Vultr cloud features, including all stock operating system images, one click apps, startup scripts, and SSH key preloading. Certain features - including snapshots, custom ISOs, additional IPs, and VPCs - are currently not available. More features will be added in the near future, so stay tuned! See our full feature list.
You can attach a block storage volume through the Vultr control panel or API. Once attached, the instance recognizes it as a new disk, which you can format and mount using standard tools in your OS (Linux or Windows). More information regarding the usage of block storage with our Linux and Windows instances can be found here.
All servers on your account are billed hourly up the the monthly rate cap. The hourly rate is determined by dividing the monthly rate by 672 hours (28 days). If your server is online for more than 672 hours in a calendar month, you will only be billed the monthly rate. Accumulated charges are invoiced to your account on the 1st of every month.
Yes, you can modify the size for your block storage within the members area. Please note that this will require a reboot of the instance in which your block storage is attached.
No. Block storage can only be attached to instances deployed in the same region.
No, because of potential data loss you cannot perform an in-place downgrade of block storage, but you can use these steps to migrate your files to a smaller block storage subscription.
Yes. Vultr block storage is designed with redundancy across infrastructure to ensure high durability and uptime. Your data is replicated to help prevent data loss in the event of hardware failure.
Block storage behaves like a traditional hard drive, ideal for mounting as a filesystem and used for applications like databases or OS boot disks. Object storage stores data as objects and is better suited for large-scale static data like backups, media files, and archives.
Yes. Vultr allows you to increase the size of your block storage volume. After resizing, you can expand your filesystem within your OS to take advantage of the additional space.
Vultr Block Storage is built on high-speed SSDs and NVMe technology, offering consistent performance for read/write operations. Performance may vary based on instance type, I/O patterns, and volume size.
Data stored on Vultr block storage is encrypted in transit and at rest. You can also implement additional encryption at the application or operating system level for enhanced security.
Vultr Block Storage leverages high-speed SSD and NVMe backends to deliver consistent performance for IOPS-intensive workloads. It supports parallel I/O operations and can scale performance with larger volume sizes, making it well-suited for databases, log processing, and real-time analytics.
Yes. You can configure multiple Vultr Block Storage volumes in software RAID arrays (e.g., RAID 0, 1, 5, 10) within your operating system. This enables enhanced performance, redundancy, or both, depending on your configuration needs.
While local instance storage may offer slightly lower latency due to its physical proximity, Vultr Block Storage delivers competitive low-latency performance through its NVMe-based infrastructure and distributed backend, which is ideal for most performance-sensitive workloads.
Yes. Vultr offers a Terraform provider and a fully documented API, enabling you to automate the provisioning, attachment, resizing, and deletion of block storage volumes as part of your infrastructure-as-code workflows.
The $2.50 IPv6 only sandbox plan is intended for general platform testing and it is limited to 2 instances per account. The $3.50 plan is similar to the $2.50 plan but it also includes an IPv4 address by default. The limit on the $3.50 plan is 5 instances per account. Their primary purpose is for early development and testing of ideas before upgrading or snapshot re-deployment to a larger permanent instance. These plans are not available for API automation.
Standard: Suitable for low-cost bulk storage, while making data easily available for use with Vultr Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, and Kubernetes. Primary use cases: long-term storage and backup, disaster recovery, log and event data storage.
Premium: Offering more throughput and operations per minute, Vultr Premium Object Storage delivers affordable, reliable, and durable object storage. Primary use cases: content distribution, dynamic websites, application data storage, transaction data recording.
Performance: Ideal for workloads that internet-based object storage just can’t deliver, Vultr Performance Object Storage harnesses NVMe technology for economical yet high-performance storage. Primary use cases: AI and machine learning model training data, cloud-native applications, inventory tracking.
Accelerated: Designed for the most demanding storage workloads, Vultr Accelerated Object Storage is built with NVMe to deliver rapid, low-latency access and performance for write-heavy use cases. Primary use cases: real-time analytics and monitoring, AI deployments for real-time decision making.
Yes, Vultr Object Storage is our S3-compatible object storage solution.
Files (objects) can be transferred to Vultr Object Storage directly from Vultr instances by using an S3-compatible tool or SDK. Our Vultr Object Storage documentation includes examples for the popular tool, "s3cmd".
Block storage provides a disk volume that can be mounted on a Vultr instance. Object storage provides an internet-accessible (HTTPS) endpoint where files can be stored and retrieved.
Files (objects) transferred to Vultr Object Storage are "private" by default. This means that you need a secret key in order to access them. However, some tools allow you to override this behavior - be sure to check the documentation included with the tool or SDK that you use to interact with object storage.
A Cloud GPU works by providing access to GPU instances hosted in data centers. This enables users to run intensive computing tasks such as AI training, gaming, and rendering without needing a physical GPU.
When selecting a cloud GPU service, consider factors like GPU power, memory, pricing, and the specific workload (e.g., AI, rendering, or gaming).
A traditional GPU is a physical graphics card installed in a local machine, while a Cloud GPU is accessed remotely via cloud infrastructure, offering more scalability and flexibility.
Vultr offers some of the most competitive pricing in the industry for GPU-as-a-service, with transparent pay-as-you-go rates and no long-term contracts required. Unlike the hyperscalers, Vultr avoids complex, multi-layered pricing structures. Vultr makes it easy to deploy high-performance infrastructure without breaking your budget.
Vultr delivers bare metal access to the latest AMD and NVIDIA GPUs – without vendor lock-in, high egress costs, and hyperscaler billing complexity. Vultr also offers global availability, pre-configured AI/ML templates, and integration with industry-leading model training and inference tools. With a focus on performance, simplicity, and price predictability, Vultr is purpose-built for next-generation AI workloads.
Vultr Serverless Inference automatically provisions, scales, and shuts down GPU resources based on real-time demand. This lets developers deploy GenAI models – like LLMs and vision transformers – without managing infrastructure. With private GPU clusters, OpenAI-compatible APIs, and inference-optimized GPUs, Vultr provides a cost-effective, scalable platform for low-latency AI application delivery.
Reserved GPU servers on Vultr offer consistent, full-performance access to the entire GPU – ideal for training large models or running latency-sensitive inference. In contrast, on-demand instances may share resources and can be better suited for bursty, less intensive workloads. Reserved access gives users maximum control, stability, and throughput – key factors for enterprise AI operations.
Learn more about Vultr's free tier program.
Anyone is eligible to apply for access to for our Free Tier program. We try to ensure that our resources are helping real people and real businesses to solve real problems. To reduce the risk of automated bots and abuse, you will be asked to provide information during the sign up process about you and your intended use. The more information you provide, the more certain we can be that you aren’t a bot. We don’t share our verification process, even when an account has not met the criteria for access.
This is a new program, and it will be rolled out in phases. It will only be available in specific cloud data center locations, and limited quantities will be available.
You can request early access to the program by applying here.
Since there is a limited quantity, eligible members will be granted access on a randomized basis, incorporating a weighted score for each applicant.
In the identity and usage validation process, we calculate a “weighted score” for each account. Access to the program will be granted on a randomized basis, and the weighted score influences the likelihood of being admitted into the program. The more we understand about you and your intended goals and needs, the higher your score will be in the validation process.
As we roll out the program, we will be adjusting and fine tuning it as we go. We don’t have hard dates at this point, but we’re looking forward to helping you test and grow.
You will be notified via email as well as in the my.vultr.com console, and the “free” instance will become available on the deploy page.
Hardware Specifications
1vCPU / 512MB RAM / 10GB SSD / IPv4 Address
Learn more about using Kubernetes on Vultr.
Kubernetes is an industry-proven container management solution. The Vultr Kubernetes Engine is the fastest way to begin deploying your cloud-native apps at scale.
The Vultr Kubernetes Engine is a fully-managed product offering with predictable pricing that makes Kubernetes easy to use. Vultr manages the control plane and worker nodes and provides integration with other managed services such as Load Balancers, Block Storage, and DNS.
A container provides an isolated environment for an application, which must be managed and connected to the external world.
Yes! You can deploy your own cluster and install our plugins like theVultr Cloud Controller Manager (CCM),Container Storage Interface (CSI), or useCondor to deploy a cluster. Vultr is a first-class citizen in Kubernetes.
Kubernetes uses Vultr cloud servers. It does not support Bare Metal servers.
We have two storage classes available through our CSI:
No. VKE only supports VPC and is not compatible with VPC2. By default, your VKE cluster is deployed with a VPC network which will be used for all the nodes in your cluster. You are free and able to attach other resources to this network in order to have access to private interfaces on the cluster nodes.
Yes, ETCD on VKE is encrypted and backed up regularly.
Kubernetes offers key advantages such as::
Kubernetes uses Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) and Cluster Autoscaling to adjust the number of running instances (pods) based on CPU usage, memory usage, or custom metrics.
Using Vultr Direct Connect provides:
A Kubernetes cluster is a group of nodes (virtual or physical machines) that run containerized applications. It includes a master node (control plane) and worker nodes that host the actual workloads.
Containers are lightweight, portable software packages that include everything needed to run an application: code, runtime, libraries, and system tools. Kubernetes manages and schedules these containers across a cluster.
Managed Kubernetes refers to a service where a provider handles the deployment and day-to-day operations of a Kubernetes cluster. This includes upgrades, monitoring, auto-scaling, backups, and security patches—reducing operational overhead for your team.
Vultr Kubernetes Engine integrates with popular GitOps tools like Argo CD and Flux, allowing teams to manage infrastructure and application deployments declaratively through Git repositories for increased automation, auditability, and rollback capabilities.
The Vultr Cloud Controller Manager bridges Kubernetes with Vultr’s infrastructure, enabling native support for networking, load balancing, and persistent volumes using Kubernetes APIs, streamlining cloud-native application deployment.
With Cluster API compatibility and CNCF certification, Vultr Kubernetes Engine supports consistent tooling and federation across cloud providers, enabling seamless cluster provisioning and management in multi-cloud or hybrid environments.
Vultr Kubernetes Engine works with open-source observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, enabling deep insights into application performance, infrastructure health, and cluster-wide metrics.
Learn more about Vultr's load balancers.
In the Vultr dashboard you will be able to assign and remove instances to a given Load Balancer.
You do not have to worry about managing Vultr Load Balancers. They are fully managed.
Vultr Load Balancers support TCP, HTTP, and HTTPS.
Vultr Load Balancers are bandwidth neutral. We only charge on bandwidth on the instances attached to the load balancer.
Unfortunately not. Load Balancers and attached instances must be in the same region.
Learn more about using Ubuntu on Vultr.
You can change the hostname from the customer portal, but this also reinstalls and wipes all data. See our guide to change the hostname without reinstalling.
We recommend several security practices: Make sure you have automatic backups enabled. Perform all admin tasks with sudo as a non-root user. Keep your Ubuntu server up-to-date with software and security patches. Use the Vultr firewall, the Ubuntu firewall, or both.
Use our troubleshooting guide to reset the root password in single-user mode.
We have help available for many networking topics: Learn how to configure a VPC and configure static networking with multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. See our troubleshooting guide for general network issues, firewall questions, and see which network ports are blocked by default.
The Vultr Web Console is available if you cannot reach your server by SSH. See our recovery guide using bootable ISOs such as Finnix.
Learn more about using Debian on Vultr.
You can change the hostname from the customer portal, but this also reinstalls and wipes all data. See our guide to change the hostname without reinstalling.
We recommend several security practices: Make sure you have automatic backups enabled. Perform all admin tasks with sudo as a non-root user. Keep your Debian server up-to-date with software and security patches. Use the Vultr firewall, the Debian firewall, or both. Debian 9 and 10 may use one of several firewalls such as UFW, nftables, and iptables.
Use our troubleshooting guide to reset the root password in single-user mode.
We have help available for many networking topics: Learn how to configure a VPC and configure static networking with multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. See our troubleshooting guide for general network issues, firewall questions, and see which network ports are blocked by default.
The Vultr Web Console is available if you cannot reach your server by SSH. See our recovery guide using bootable ISOs such as Finnix.
Learn more about using Fedora CoreOS on Vultr.
See our guide to change the hostname without reinstalling.
We recommend several security practices: Make sure you have automatic backups enabled. Perform all admin tasks via sudo as the core user. Use the Vultr firewall to protect your instance.
Connect to the Vultr Web Console and boot in single user mode to reset passwords or update SSH keys.
We have help available for many networking topics: Learn how to configure a VPC. See our troubleshooting guide for general network issues, firewall questions, and see which network ports are blocked by default.
The Vultr Web Console is available if you cannot reach your server by SSH. See our recovery guide using bootable ISOs such as Finnix.
Learn more about using Fedora on Vultr.
You can change the hostname from the customer portal, but this also reinstalls and wipes all data. See our guide to change the hostname without reinstalling.
We recommend several security practices: Make sure you have automatic backups enabled. Perform all admin tasks with sudo as a non-root user. Keep your Fedora server up-to-date with software and security patches. Use the Vultr firewall, the Fedora firewall, or both.
Use our troubleshooting guide to reset the root password in single-user mode.
We have help available for many networking topics: Learn how to configure a VPC and configure static networking with multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. See our troubleshooting guide for general network issues, firewall questions, and see which network ports are blocked by default.
The Vultr Web Console is available if you cannot reach your server by SSH. See our recovery guide using bootable ISOs such as Finnix.
Learn more about using FreeBSD on Vultr.
You can change the hostname from the customer portal, but this also reinstalls and wipes all data. See our guide to change the hostname without reinstalling.
We recommend several security practices: Make sure you have automatic backups enabled. Perform all admin tasks with sudo as a non-root user. Keep your FreeBSD server up-to-date with software and security patches. Use the Vultr firewall, the FreeBSD firewall, or both. The pf firewall is enabled by default on Vultr images. IPFW and IPFILTER are also available.
Use our troubleshooting guide to reset the root password in single-user mode.
We have help available for many networking topics: Learn how to configure a VPC and configure static networking with multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. See our troubleshooting guide for general network issues, firewall questions, and see which network ports are blocked by default.
The Vultr Web Console is available if you cannot reach your server by SSH. See our recovery guide using bootable ISOs such as Finnix.
Learn more about using OpenBSD on Vultr.
You can change the hostname from the customer portal, but this also reinstalls and wipes all data. See our guide to change the hostname without reinstalling.
We recommend several security practices: Make sure you have automatic backups enabled. Perform all admin tasks with sudo as a non-root user. Keep your OpenBSD server up-to-date with software and security patches. Use the Vultr firewall, the OpenBSD firewall, or both.
Use our troubleshooting guide to reset the root password in single-user mode.
We have help available for many networking topics: Learn how to configure a VPC and configure static networking with multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. See our troubleshooting guide for general network issues, firewall questions, and see which network ports are blocked by default.
The Vultr Web Console is available if you cannot reach your server by SSH. See our recovery guide using bootable ISOs such as Finnix.
Learn more about using Windows on Vultr.
You can change the hostname from the customer portal, but this also reinstalls and wipes all data. See our guide to change the hostname without reinstalling.
We recommend several security practices: Make sure you have automatic backups enabled. Keep your Windows server up-to-date with software and security patches. Use the Vultr firewall, the Windows firewall, or both. Use a standard user account for normal tasks. Log in with your administrator-level account only when performing admin tasks.
Use our guide to reset the Administrator password.
We have help available for many networking topics: Learn how to configure a VPC and configure static networking with multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses via the GUI, or in PowerShell. See our troubleshooting guide for general network issues, firewall questions, and see which network ports are blocked by default.
The Vultr Web Console is available if you cannot reach your server by SSH. See our recovery guide using bootable ISOs such as Finnix.
Windows Server licenses are automatically included when provisioning instances with the Windows operating system. Existing Windows Server licenses cannot be transferred to Vultr.
Learn more about using CentOS on Vultr.
You can change the hostname from the customer portal, but this also reinstalls and wipes all data. See our guide to change the hostname without reinstalling. Note that CentOS needs to be rebooted one time after a new deployment to fully set the hostname.
We recommend several security practices: Use an SELinux version of CentOS. Make sure you have automatic backups enabled. Perform all admin tasks with sudo as a non-root user. Keep your CentOS server up-to-date with software and security patches. Use the Vultr firewall, the CentOS firewall, or both. Use the guide for your version of CentOS 6, CentOS 7, or CentOS 8.
Use our troubleshooting guide to reset the root password in single-user mode.
We have help available for many networking topics: Learn how to configure a VPC and configure static networking with multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. See our troubleshooting guide for general network issues, firewall questions, and see which network ports are blocked by default.
The Vultr Web Console is available if you cannot reach your server by SSH. See our troubleshooting guide for CentOS boot problems. See our recovery guide using bootable ISOs such as Finnix.
Learn more about using AlmaLinux on Vultr.
You can change the hostname from the customer portal, but this also reinstalls and wipes all data. See our guide to change the hostname without reinstalling. Note that AlmaLinux needs to be rebooted one time after a new deployment to fully set the hostname.
We recommend several security practices: Make sure you have automatic backups enabled. Perform all admin tasks with sudo as a non-root user. Keep your AlmaLinux server up-to-date with software and security patches. Use the Vultr firewall, the AlmaLinux firewall, or both.
Use our troubleshooting guide to reset the root password in single-user mode.
We have help available for many networking topics: Learn how to configure a VPC and configure static networking with multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. See our troubleshooting guide for general network issues, firewall questions, and see which network ports are blocked by default.
The Vultr Web Console is available if you cannot reach your server by SSH. See our troubleshooting guide for Alma Linux boot problems. See our recovery guide using bootable ISOs such as Finnix.
Learn more about using Rocky Linux on Vultr.
You can change the hostname from the customer portal, but this also reinstalls and wipes all data. See our guide to change the hostname without reinstalling. Note that Rocky Linux needs to be rebooted one time after a new deployment to fully set the hostname.
We recommend several security practices: Make sure you have automatic backups enabled. Perform all admin tasks with sudo as a non-root user. Keep your Rocky Linux server up-to-date with software and security patches. Use the Vultr firewall, the Rocky Linux firewall, or both.
Use our troubleshooting guide to reset the root password in single-user mode.
We have help available for many networking topics: Learn how to configure a VPC and configure static networking with multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. See our troubleshooting guide for general network issues, firewall questions, and see which network ports are blocked by default.
The Vultr Web Console is available if you cannot reach your server by SSH. See our troubleshooting guide for Rocky Linux boot problems. See our recovery guide using bootable ISOs such as Finnix.
Learn more about using VzLinux on Vultr.
You can change the hostname from the customer portal, but this also reinstalls and wipes all data. See our guide to change the hostname without reinstalling. Note that VzLinux needs to be rebooted one time after a new deployment to fully set the hostname.
We recommend several security practices: Make sure you have automatic backups enabled. Perform all admin tasks with sudo as a non-root user. Keep your VzLinux server up-to-date with software and security patches. Use the Vultr firewall, the VzLinux firewall, or both.
Use our troubleshooting guide to reset the root password in single-user mode.
We have help available for many networking topics: Learn how to configure a VPC and configure static networking with multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. See our troubleshooting guide for general network issues, firewall questions, and see which network ports are blocked by default.
The Vultr Web Console is available if you cannot reach your server by SSH. See our troubleshooting guide for VzLinux boot problems. See our recovery guide using bootable ISOs such as Finnix.