Hello LowEndTalk Members,
On the 1st April (not a joke!) I got a message from @Infinity about a promotion by CatalystHost. I though: "Well, why not take a look at it". It was, if I recall correctly, a promotion for their new plan called "Micro" with small specifications (17 USD/year) with a promo code for a free year. I got one for myself :).
Specifications (doubled at their birthday):
20 GB HDD
600 GB BW
128 MB RAM
128 MB vSwap
1x IPv4 IP-address
1 Gbit/s (Austin, Texas, US)
Now I have this baby (Micro) for about almost two weeks soon. A few days (maybe even 1 or 2, can't remember) after I got it CatalysHost had birthday and so my HDD, BW and I-Nodes increased to 2x of what they were before. I've done all kinds of test on it. It performed and still performs perfectly and fast for all my needs!
Performance:
Although it has only 1 E5-2620 core at 2.00 GHz the VPS is really fast! It responds really fast to input and tasks. No delay at all. I installed OpenVPN and the rebuilding of LZO was finished in like less than 1 minute while another VPS I had in Dallas, Texas with 4 cores at around 3 GHz needed more than 5 minutes to complete the task.
Network:
They said it's 1 Gbit/s and it really is 1 Gbit/s. Got top speeds to almost all locations of the FreeVPS Directory & Discussion bench.sh script. SSH input/output is really fast (no delay while input/output is being transfered between VPS and me).
Support:
I haven't really had a reason to consult the support of CatalystHost for things other than changing the rDNS entry of my IPv4 IP-address. So I made a ticket and it was legen wait for it... dary! I made the ticket at 12:34 and the reply that the rDNS was changed came only 5 minutes later by Ryan. That's really fast.
Rating: 10/10
I mean it seriously! The Micro VPS fits all my needs (OpenVPN server for personal use). The network is top and the performance is just awesome. The support is fast, Ryan and Jarland know what they do. CatalystHost ftw!
Thanks a lot @jarland and Ryan! You're great guys.