Heads up for Vultr users - TOS Change

Vultr changed their TOS claiming full perpetual commercial rights over all hosted content. See more:

https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1bouuv7/warning_vultr_a_major_cloud_provider_is_now/
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/193710/vultr-is-now-claiming-full-perpetual-commercial-rights-over-all-hosted-content

As mentioned there, not the norm at all. I can’t think of any other providers having the same.

Funny to see a link to Reddit here and then reading my own comment in the Reddit thread :rofl:

Not sure why its an issue, their Terms of Service have had that language since at least November 2022.

We talked to them and they will update their TOS. This is from 2021.

Long story short: they’re an infrastructure company.

They have no interest in selling your content or training Al on it.

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Here we go https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/2024/cloud-prodiver-vultr-has-bone-to-pick-after-reddit-post

TOS update will follow

Nah. BS reply by Vultr. They fucked up. They should own it and not use the Chief BS Officer to try and put the blame on the Reddit guy. Who cares if the account is 5 days or 1 hour old. Maybe he just created the account to post that. Doesn’t make the TOS less real.

The old TOS clearly states that the data you store (among other verbs) in the “Services” or through the “Services” is theirs. And their “Services” are ALL their services.

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I have zero affiliation with Vultr and let’s just wait for the TOS update. Compared to most big players in the cloud infrastructure space they are a newcomers and mistakes happen. All that matters is a TOS update in my opinion.

And that is why, for me, it is important to own them. Unfortunately, they just decided to do PR control through the marketing guy.

So yeah, new comers, with old habits.