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IBM Cloud Block Storage vs. Vultr

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Cloud Block Storage
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
IBM offers their Block Storage service via IBM Cloud, allowing users to deploy and customize flash-backed iSCSI block storage from 25 GB to 12,000 GB capacity with up to 48,000 IOPS.N/A
Vultr
Score 6.8 out of 10
N/A
Vultr is an independent cloud computing platform on a mission to provide businesses and developers around the world with unrivaled ease of use, price-to-performance, and global reach.
$1
per month
Pricing
IBM Cloud Block StorageVultr
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Block Storage
$1
per month
Cloud Compute
$2.50
per month
Object Storage
$5
per month
Kubernetes Engine
$10
per month
Load Balancers
$10
per month
Managed Databases
$15
per month
Optimized Cloud Compute
$28
per month
Cloud GPU
$90
per month
Bare Metal
$120
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM Cloud Block StorageVultr
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional Details—Pricing is based on specifications chosen in each product category. Bandwidth is also included up to a certain amount per month.
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Community Pulse
IBM Cloud Block StorageVultr
Considered Both Products
IBM Cloud Block Storage
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage
  • Both services are pretty much identical when it comes to their offerings and specifically in their availability, durability and scalability of block storage.
  • AWS S3 stacks someone better in most clients given the vast offerings of AWS within the rest of their solutions …
Diana Dumpsey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Diana Dumpsey
PPC Manager
Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage
Unlike the above platforms, IBM Cloud Block Storage enable secure and quick big data migration through its secure environment and the flexibility of its Cloud options is effective. Data analytics through IBM Cloud Block Storage are easily prepared and the data access is very …
Veronica Larson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Veronica Larson
Business Analyst
Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage
IBM has given us the best data storage services and I am proud of its entire performance. The product has been able to link all our services to cloud servers that enhance transparency and offer backup services to all our services. Data that runs across the entire organization …
Rita Joy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rita Joy
Information Specialist
Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage
IBM Cloud Block Storage is known for professional space control, [which] values even the large database of above 12000GB. Further, IBM Cloud Block Storage co-assist with the data managing solution, more so for data mining, analytics, and sharing. Again, IBM Cloud Block Storage …
Jude Nickson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jude Nickson
ICT Manager
Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage
IBM Cloud Block Storage is extensively affordable when compared with the competing applications. Further, IBM Cloud Block Storage works in different operating systems, hence, it is never discriminatory. Again, IBM Cloud Block Storage creates a proper way of integrating with …
Ramindu Deshapriya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ramindu Deshapriya
Lead Consultant - Technology
Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage
Amazon S3 isn't on IBM Cloud and isn't the best solution to be used alongside applications deployed to the IBM Cloud.
Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes
CTO (Chief Technical Officer)
Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage
The biggest difference that I have been able to find from other services external to IBM has been the domain, experience and application of the technology at the datacenter scale that allows [us] to be quite sure that the data will be in good collection. But I insist that the …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage
IBM Cloud Object Storage is better suited for application development and easy to use from a higher level.

IBM Cloud Block Storage is better suited as block storage as a service and totally integrated with the infrastructure as a service, making it easy to deploy and used either …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage
Being part of an organization that has a sizable footprint in IBM Cloud, the IBM Cloud Block Storage is a natural choice. Also, IBM Cloud Block Storage's native integration with Aspera is an added bonus for use cases needing fast, reliable data storage and transfer solutions.
CP
Charlie Pusey
Technical Operations Manager
Chose IBM Cloud Block Storage
N/A. IBM Cloud Block Storage was the best solution as we already use IBM Cloud for the information that would utilise it.
Vultr
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Vultr
Price to performance ratio and ease of managemenated
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Vultr
Cost of bandwidth and network quality for us is what mattered.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Vultr
Vultr is cheaper than most providers. Only contabo is cheaper, but they have lower uptime.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Vultr
Vultr comes in at the lower end of the spectrum in terms of the breadth of the services they provide compared to the larger vendors, but they are consistently demonstrating their commitment to growing their service offering and platform features. We selected Vultr because of …
Stephen Honor | TrustRadius Reviewer
Stephen Honor
Chief Information Officer
Chose Vultr
Vultr has a greater offering of servers whilst staying reasonably priced compared to some of the larger infrastructure providers. They may not have all the services as some of the other providers but they don't need it when they can do what they do with the services they provide.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Vultr
On shared services, such as VPS, I have noticed greater confidence of usability and resource availability with Vultr.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Vultr
We did extensive performance comparisons and testing and Vultr was not only better priced, but much better on the performance and speed.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Vultr
AWS and Azure are too complicated and costly for small businesses like ours.
Ben Brown | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ben Brown
Enterprise Security Solutions Architect
Chose Vultr
Vultr has better support and competitive pricing. The network is solid and globally deployed. IP reputation is clean, and security is tight. Ease of use and documentation is really good. User experience has been the best I ever experienced. Low stress, reliable …
MT
Mark Tenney
CEO/Founder
Chose Vultr
The performance beats upcloud. The only thing I really liked about upcloud better was the backup offerings. They had more flexible backup plans, but I love the every other night plan on Vultr as well.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Vultr
Server updates are clear and always noticed on the platform which my last company did not have clear.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Vultr
CloudCo was not listed. In comparison, the pricing of the competition is in a place where I wouldn't retain any margin for smaller customers, that's why I use Vultr for those. Vultr's self serve interface and UI is much better and more customizable for the general architect. If …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Vultr
Vultr has been a more cost effective solution in some areas. Compared to AWS EC2, Vultr has been a lot more cost effective for our environment. Vultr has the right vCPU, RAM, and storage for our needs. In the object storage space, Vultr has not been the best fit for our …
Chose Vultr
Vultr offers the same services as all the major cloud providers however Vulr offers a clear pricing modeling with no hidden fees. This has been incisive in deciding which provider to go with. I have never encountered any downtime with their services Technically, Vultr has the …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Vultr
Incredible performance to cost ratio. I absolutely love Vultr for minimizing costs associated with running a one-man operation.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Vultr
They are very similar but we are more comfortable with Vultr
BJ
Brian Johnson
Business Owner
Chose Vultr
From the perspective of the above, Vultr provides the best balance of cost vs. performance for us. Cloudways stacks a large fee for each VPS you spin up, and this quickly escalates. Linode comes closest (at least when I used it a few years ago) to Vultr, and 3 years ago this …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Vultr
Vultr is much easier to get started with, less things to configure, a simpler interface. To deploy and manage a server is much easier. I am sure for a production SaaS app there are features in AWS and Azure that are needed, but for dev/test environment, I prefer Vultr.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Vultr
It is reliable, stable and very manageable, but, I think, very expensive too
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Vultr
Vultr is a dream to use after coming from AWS - the products are intuitively named, don't require gaining a certification to use, and have better documentation.
Vultr's documentation is a little less comprehensive and organized than google cloud's; however, its pricing and …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Vultr
Much easier to deploy and manged than AWS
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Vultr
Linode: Similar pricing, changed our business over to Vultr to save credit card fees by using Crypto.
Digital Ocean: Fast and reliable, same pricing didn't stay because the payment methods (Similar case to Linode)
Hetzner: Good pricing, good reputation, limited locations.
Features
IBM Cloud Block StorageVultr
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Block Storage
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Ratings
Vultr
2.8
Ratings
97% below category average
Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings2.80 Ratings
Dynamic scaling00 Ratings2.40 Ratings
Elastic load balancing00 Ratings2.60 Ratings
Pre-configured templates00 Ratings2.70 Ratings
Monitoring tools00 Ratings2.10 Ratings
Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings2.70 Ratings
Operating system support00 Ratings2.90 Ratings
Security controls00 Ratings4.50 Ratings
Automation00 Ratings2.20 Ratings
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User Ratings
IBM Cloud Block StorageVultr
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(0 ratings)
2.5
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Cloud Block StorageVultr
Likelihood to Recommend
The service in general is great because on the backend. IBM offers experience and knowledge in the use of data center technologies undeniably.
I recommend it for almost any situation but particularly for databases and especially large ones. That possibility of adjusting IOPS dynamically to levels that other data centers do not offer makes it unique. I don't recommend using the service if you don't have an infrastructure expert who knows about servers, Linux, and storage because a lot of the configuration and settings require an expert hand.
Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes
CTO (Chief Technical Officer)
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Vultr is well suited for South African based organisations as they have a presence here. It makes dev servers for WordPress more feasible. Having to wait on roundtrips from EU or US slow things down.
Ease of setting up new servers, with clear information on what you are getting for what you pay, makes it so easy to spin up just what you need. With a large range of specifications it means you can find that sweet spot of cost vs. performance.
BJ
Brian Johnson
Business Owner
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Pros
  • Proficient scaling and system customization, which allows editing.
  • Wide range of system storage, ranging from 25GB to 12000GB.
  • Finally, IBM Cloud Block Storage deploys the most technical and efficient security measures.
Rita Joy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Rita Joy
Information Specialist
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  • The uptime is perfect . If there are any downtimes it is well informed and its in non - production hours to ensure that the systems are not hit
  • Accessibility and the dashboard is amazing where you have full control over the VPS system.
  • The flexibility of OS on which to create your VPS is also amazing .
Verified User
Anonymous
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Cons
  • The documentation must be clearer and updated, thinking about each distribution that they offer in the cloud
  • Downtime when IOPS are raised can be less
  • The configuration can be more automated from the same control panel and not have to take it so much to the CLI
Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes | TrustRadius Reviewer
Alfonso de la Guarda Reyes
CTO (Chief Technical Officer)
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  • the ability of increasing a specific configuration without the need of upgrading the whole plan, for example i might need to add more memory but i'm satisfied with my current processors and hard disk capacity (or vise versa)
  • Solving the problems of taking an image to the server if the server capacity (hard disk) is bigger than 1TB (which i'm currently facing a big problem because of that)
Verified User
Anonymous
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Likelihood to Renew
No answers on this topic
We’ve been extremely satisfied with the service for many years. After trying other providers, we’ve found nothing that matches the reliability and performance—so we’re not likely to switch anytime soon.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Usability
No answers on this topic
easy to use and configure. great bang for the buck. I need an affordable solution to host in the cloud data from systems installed at our client's site with the ability to drill down and change the configuration remotely. Vultr enabled us to do that in an efficient and affordable way.
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Anonymous
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Support Rating
No answers on this topic
Because of the 24 hour turnaround timing with servers I need immediate reply
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Anonymous
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Implementation Rating
No answers on this topic
Nothing in particular to share that I did not already discuss
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Anonymous
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Alternatives Considered
IBM Cloud Block Storage is extensively affordable when compared with the competing applications. Further, IBM Cloud Block Storage works in different operating systems, hence, it is never discriminatory. Again, IBM Cloud Block Storage creates a proper way of integrating with other applications, more so for database control and management. IBM Cloud Block Storage is clear, through its operational charter.
Jude Nickson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jude Nickson
ICT Manager
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Vultr has better support and competitive pricing. The network is solid and globally deployed. IP reputation is clean, and security is tight. Ease of use and documentation is really good. User experience has been the best I ever experienced. Low stress, reliable hosting I would recommend to anyone. It helped me easily scale and expand my business.
Ben Brown | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ben Brown
Enterprise Security Solutions Architect
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Return on Investment
  • Cloud data access and easy Cloud data analytics creation platform.
  • Visualization and Cloud data storage solution.
  • Secure and smooth Cloud data transfer.
Diana Dumpsey | TrustRadius Reviewer
Diana Dumpsey
PPC Manager
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  • Vultr allowed us to have an online presence without breaking the bank
  • Vultr allows us to offer an online access to the business services that we offer our clients beyond the systems installed on premises.
  • We are planning on using Vultr more in the coming months as a standard feature to our Real-Time Energy Monitoring platform
Verified User
Anonymous
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ScreenShots

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Screenshot of Vultr's control panel helps users spend less time managing infrastructure.Screenshot of Vultr's services offer additional configuration and inside of the simplified control panel.Screenshot of a display of when peak activity happens on an application. The server health graphs provide insight from the moment the server is created.Screenshot of Vultr's interface, which allows users to deploy high performance servers worldwide from any device.Screenshot of how to reach the 24/7/365 technical support team that is available through Vultr's ticketing system.