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Vultr, comparedThirty regions, one company, one jurisdiction that matters.

Vultr’s region count is its best feature and the source of the most common misunderstanding about it. Placing a server in Frankfurt does not make the company holding it German.

7 minute read · Their pages last read 30 juillet 2026 · Corrections welcome

The one you are looking at

Vultr

Where
United States, thirty-plus regions
Site
vultr.com

What they are genuinely good at

  • Region count and reach that nothing on this page approaches, which is decisive for latency-bound work.
  • Good bare metal and GPU availability alongside the virtual machines.
  • A mature API and hourly billing that make disposable infrastructure easy.

This estate

DediPrivacy

Where
eight jurisdictions, eight companies
Site
dediprivacy.com

What we publish that most do not

  • Every price, including bare metal, GPU by the second and colocation.
  • A signed warrant canary, a quarterly transparency report and the inventory of records that exist.
  • Mitigation on before an attack starts, and an SLA that credits itself from the incident record.

Row by row

What each of us publishes.

Not what each of us believes. Every row below is a page you can open on either site, or an answer that is not there.

Their column reflects their own public pages, read on 30 juillet 2026. marks a thing we could not find published — it is not a claim that they do not do it.
Published? Vultr DediPrivacy
Sign up without identity documents No name, no address, no document, at any spend level. No Published
Settles in cryptocurrency Accepted as payment, not as a gift-card workaround. No Published
Accepts Monero The only widely accepted asset that is private by default. No Published
Every price published The whole catalogue on a page, with no “contact us” tier. Published Published
Signed warrant canary Cryptographically signed, dated, and on a schedule. Not published Published
Transparency report with figures Notices received, and how many were acted on. Not published Published
Law-enforcement guide published The inventory of records that exist, before you ask. Partly Published
Log retention stated as a number Hours or days, not “minimal” or “as required”. Partly Published
A separate legal entity per jurisdiction So a judgment in one country does not reach the servers in another. No Published
Uptime SLA credited automatically Credited from the published incident record, with no claim form. Partly Published
DDoS mitigation included On every product, at no extra charge, with no protected-IP upsell. Partly Published
Bare metal, GPU and colocation Beyond virtual machines, on the same account and policy. Partly Published

On eleven of the twelve rows above, this estate publishes an answer and we could not find one published there. Tell us if a row is wrong

Where the server sits, and who is asked about it

A complaint about content is addressed to the company that provides the service, not to the building. With a US provider that is a US company under US process, whichever of its thirty regions the disk happens to be in.

That is why the structure here is eight companies rather than eight buildings. Each region is a separate legal entity on its own country’s register, so the country in the region name is also the country whose court has to be persuaded.

Identity, and the fraud check

Signup requires a real payment method and orders are held for review. Here the account is an address and a password, funded from a crypto balance, and there is no review because there is nothing to review.

What they do better

Regions, hourly elasticity, and the surrounding ecosystem. We have eight regions and are not going to have thirty. Saying so is more useful than a comparison that pretends the count does not matter.

Questions people actually ask

Does choosing a European Vultr region help?

For latency, entirely. For a takedown, the provider is still the party addressed. That is the distinction the whole page is about.

Do you bill hourly?

GPU is billed by the second. Everything else is monthly from a balance, with no card on file and no minimum term — the price list has all of it.

Buy theirs instead if

  • You need a specific city out of thirty and latency is the deciding number.
  • The workload is ordinary and the compliance posture is irrelevant to it.
  • You want to spin capacity up and down by the hour across many regions at once.

That list is here because a comparison that cannot name a reason to buy the other one is an advertisement. If any of those three is you, they are the better buy and this page has done its job.

Every price on this estate is published in full, in one place. See the whole catalogue

Others of the same kind

Good engineering, and a compliance department. What changes when the company holding your disk is answerable where the complaint is filed.

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