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Ryan Pollock · 2021-04-15T14:13:30.009Z

Do you ever feel like an underdog? And that sometimes all that’s left is scraps? If you can relate, then I think you’ll enjoy my story. Perhaps it will even inspire you to choose the road – and the independent infrastructure cloud – a bit less trav...

good choice. vultr is a great value for the money.

i talk up the service every chance I get.

good luck swimming with the whale sharks!

Interesting. I've never tried DO but I do use Vultr for my personal use, primarily because it is one of the few cloud providers that supports OpenBSD and even Illumos, and in fact I run my entire home broadband connection through a WireGuard VPN terminating in Vultr's London data center (that for unfathomable reasons Google's IP geoloc thinks is in Dubai).

Having spent most of today fighting with CloudFront and its baroque monstrosity called Lambda@Edge to do the simplest thing you could imagine (adding Permissions-Policy static headers to my Hugo blog), and having tried but failed to get CloudFlare's Pages to work, I'd love to have a managed GSLB static hosting service from Vultr, and I suspect a lot of others using static site generators and Jamstack would as well.

Oh, and while I'm on requests, could the Vultr portal support Webauthn/U2F as hardware two-factor authentication, not just the proprietary Yubikey method, pretty please?

Thanks for being a customer and for the feedback, Fazal! Will take your ideas into consideration, for sure.

Fazal Majid how would you feel about using Netlify in conjunction functions that ran on Vultr?

Ryan Pollock Not sure I understand. If you are planning on building a FaaS service like AWS Lambda or Cloudflare Workers, why not, assuming you have a distributed file system it can access, but I was thinking of much more basic CDN functionality.

I don’t use Netlify myself. I used to self-host my blog, but moved it to CloudFront to gain GSLB (my primary mnx.io cloud server is in the US and when I moved to London I couldn’t help but notice how sluggish it felt due to latency). My workflow is Git + Hugo + rclone to upload to S3 and CloudFront, because they don’t have minimum pricing commitments unlike most CDNs.

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