Kamatera Review
Kamatera in its own words
Kamatera is a global cloud services platform provider, providing enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure products to organizations of all types and sizes.
With more than 13 data centers worldwide, Kamatera provides Cloud Services focused mainly on VPS Hosting. Among its many added values Kamatera’s VPS services can be Customized and Tailored to fit the user’s needs. All of Kamatera’s services come with Unlimited Traffic, AND a 30 Day Free Trial to test and scale the services.
In addition, Uptime Guarantee is 99.95% and Kamatera provides 24/7/365 Tech human support.
Features and Usability
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
Last updated on January 15 2019.
| Feature | Value | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly Billing | Yes | |
| DDOS Protection | No | Available for a fee through the Firewall feature. |
| Backups | No | Backups are available for a fee: "Extended daily backups" at $3/month for a 20GB VM. Snapshots are available for a fee ($5 per GB/month). |
| Control Panel | Custom | |
| SSH Keys Setup | No | |
| Total Number of Datacenters | 13 | |
| Number of Datacenter Continents | 4 | |
| Monitoring Charts | Yes | CPU, RAM, Network, Disk |
| Admin REST API | Yes | |
| Upgrade VPS from admin console | Yes | |
| Mobile Friendly UI | Yes | |
| Accepted Forms of Payment | Credit cards | |
| Hidden CPU Model | No | |
| Affiliate Program | Yes | |
| Firewall | No | Available for a fee: $9/month It consists of a separate VM setup with the pfSense image which implements firewall and router. |
In VPSBenchmark's opinion
Kamatera Extra Services
In addition to features included in the VPS plan, Kamatera also offers the following services (possibly for a fee):
| Backups | Block Storage | Object Storage | Load Balancer | Floating Ips |
| Teams | Datastores | Serverless | Ddos Protection |
VPS Instance Provisioning Time
For each Kamatera VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server.
See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.
| Average Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
|---|---|---|---|
| 370s | 330s | 420s | 3 |
Admin UI Screenshots
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Kamatera Plans
Plan Specifications
| URL | https://www.kamatera.com/express/compute/ |
|---|---|
| Price per month | $9.00 |
| Discount for long term use | No |
| Disk GB | 20 |
| Num Cores | 1 |
| Memory GB | 1.0 |
| Hourly Billing | Yes |
| Virtualization | Vmware |
| Data Transfer GB | 5000 |
| Burstable CPU | No |
| Dedicated | No |
Plan Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 56
Performance Test Results
We conducted 5 different types of tests for Kamatera - 1GB 1 core. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Performance trials run on the 1GB 1 core plan
This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the 1GB 1 core plan and the web response times for every one of those.
| Start of Trial | Web Results | Sysbench Results | Avg web response time | P99 web response time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 21 2019 | Web | Sysbench | 64ms | 186ms |
Plan Specifications
| URL | https://www.kamatera.com/Products/250/Pricing |
|---|---|
| Price per month | $19.00 |
| Discount for long term use | No |
| Disk GB | 20 |
| Num Cores | 2 |
| Memory GB | 1.0 |
| Hourly Billing | Yes |
| Virtualization | Vmware |
| Data Transfer GB | 5000 |
| Burstable CPU | No |
| Dedicated | No |
Plan Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 56
Performance Test Results
We conducted 5 different types of tests for Kamatera - 1GB 2 cores. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Performance trials run on the 1GB 2 cores plan
This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the 1GB 2 cores plan and the web response times for every one of those.
| Start of Trial | Web Results | Sysbench Results | Avg web response time | P99 web response time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 11 2019 | Web | Sysbench | 64ms | 280ms |
Plan Specifications
| URL | https://www.kamatera.com/express/compute/ |
|---|---|
| Price per month | $50.00 |
| Discount for long term use | No |
| Disk GB | 20 |
| Num Cores | 4 |
| Memory GB | 2.0 |
| Hourly Billing | Yes |
| Virtualization | KVM |
| Data Transfer GB | 5000 |
| Burstable CPU | No |
| Dedicated | No |
Plan Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 55
Performance Test Results
We conducted 5 different types of tests for Kamatera - 2GB 4 cores. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Performance trials run on the 2GB 4 cores plan
This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the 2GB 4 cores plan and the web response times for every one of those.
| Start of Trial | Web Results | Sysbench Results | Avg web response time | P99 web response time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 11 2019 | Web | Sysbench | 80ms | 280ms |
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