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.
Kamatera was founded in 1995.
It is headquartered in Israel.
It offers VPS managed and unmanaged hosting products.
- Canada
- Germany
- Hong Kong
- Israel
- Netherlands
- United Kingdom
- United States
Quick Links
| Kamatera plans specs and prices | Plans |
| Kamatera instance types | Instance Types |
| How fast are Kamatera servers? Check them out in the Screener | Screener |
| List of Kamatera trials | Trials |
| Review CPU models found in Kamatera trials | CPUs |
| Performance variations of Kamatera VPS over the long term | Consistency |
| List of Kamatera yabs.sh results | Yabs |
Kamatera VPS Features
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
| 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 ($0.05 per GB/month). |
| Control Panel | Custom | |
| SSH Keys Setup | No | |
| Total Number of Datacenters | 14 | |
| 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 | |
| Reverse DNS | No | |
| Accepted Forms of Payment | Credit cards | |
| Hidden CPU Model | No | |
| Affiliate Program | Yes | |
| IPv6 support | No | |
| Firewall | No |
Available for a fee: $9/month It consists of a separate VM setup with the pfSense image which implements firewall and router. |
| Shelving | Yes |
You're only charged for storage when the VPS is turned off if you choose hourly billing. |
Pros and Cons
Strengths
- Large choice of instance types.
- Large choice of datacenters.
Weaknesses
- When billed hourly, network transfer costs are extremely high ($50 for 5000GB).
Kamatera Extra Services
In addition to features included in VPS plans, Kamatera also offers the following services (possibly for a fee):
| Backups | Block storage | Object storage | Load balancer |
| Floating IP addresses | Team Management | Managed databases | Serverless |
| DDoS protection | Kubernetes | GPU instances | Private network |
VPS Instance Provisioning Time
For each Kamatera VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server from the moment it was ordered to the moment it accepted SSH connections.
See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.
| Average Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
|---|---|---|---|
| 287s | 220s | 400s | 12 |
Control Panel Screenshots
Cloud Storage Prices
For a comparison of storage features and prices from all providers, please check the Cloud Storage Prices page.
| Storage Type | Price / GB / month | Description | Restriction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Block | $0.050 |
The Cloud Block Storage engine is a fully redundant, enterprise-grade storage system. Storage pricing is calculated by the minute.
https://www.kamatera.com/express/compute/products.php?id=cloud_block_storage#prd2 |
Network Bandwidth Prices
These are the network bandwidth prices charged by Kamatera for outbound transfers from VPS to the internet.
For a comparison of bandwidth prices from all providers, go to the Network Bandwitdh Prices page.
| Description | Price / GB |
|---|---|
|
Pricing model: Allowance Then Charged
(the provider gives a free bandwidth allowance with each server. Bandwidth above the free allowance is charged by the provider.)
Free allowance: 5 TB / month
(for a 2 core 4GB instance or closest available)
Transfer pool: no
5TB free for plans billed monthly. No free allowance for plans billed hourly.
https://www.kamatera.com/express/compute/ |
$0.010/GB |
Kamatera Instance Types and Plans
Note: All VPS prices reported at VPSBenchmarks are for one month without any further commitment and before promotions unless noted otherwise. The IPv4 charge is added to the VPS monthly price in case the provider doesn't include it by default.
| Plan | Number of CPU cores | RAM | Storage | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family: Global Instance Type: Availability |
Server CPUs are assigned to a non-dedicated physical CPU thread with no resources guaranteed. |
|||
| Availability 1GB 1core | 1 | 1.0GB | 20GB | $4.00 / month |
| Availability 2GB 1 core | 1 | 2.0GB | 20GB | $6.00 / month |
| Availability 4GB 2 cores | 2 | 4.0GB | 40GB | $19.00 / month |
| Availability 4GB 4 cores (Off rankings) | 4 | 4.0GB | 20GB | $24.00 / month |
| Availability 16GB 8 cores | 8 | 16.0GB | 150GB | $99.00 / month |
| Family: Global Instance Type: General Purpose |
Server CPUs are assigned to a dedicated physical CPU Thread with reserved resources guaranteed. |
|||
| General 1GB 1 core | 1 | 1.0GB | 20GB | $9.00 / month |
| General 2GB 1 core | 1 | 2.0GB | 20GB | $15.00 / month |
| General 4GB 2 cores | 2 | 4.0GB | 40GB | $42.00 / month |
| General 2GB 4 cores (Off rankings) | 4 | 2.0GB | 20GB | $50.00 / month |
| General 8GB 4 cores | 4 | 8.0GB | 80GB | $90.00 / month |
| Family: Global Instance Type: Burstable |
Server CPUs are assigned to a dedicated physical CPU thread with reserved resources guaranteed. Exceeding an average CPU usage of 10% will be extra charged for CPUs usage consumption. |
|||
| Burstable 4GB 2 cores | 2 | 4.0GB | 40GB | $19.00 / month |
| Family: Global Instance Type: Dedicated |
Server CPU are assigned to a dedicated physical CPU Core (2 threads) with reserved resources guaranteed. |
|||
| VPSBenchmarks has not tested any plan for this instance type yet. | ||||