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Kamatera sells cloud servers you build piece by piece, à partir de USD 4 un mois, with no promotional rate to expire. That part holds up. The weak spots sit in the paperwork. The uptime promise shrinks between the sales page and the contract, and a billing rule catches people who cancel late.
We read Kamatera’s pricing calculator, termes, SLA and FAQ, counted its Trustpilot reviews by source, and went through Reddit threads from the past year. We also timed its network from 10 countries ourselves. The top-ranking reviews we read either repeat Kamatera’s 99.95% uptime figure or skip uptime entirely. None opens the SLA (Accord de niveau de service, the contract behind the uptime promise). Il s'engage à 99.9% and lets Kamatera turn down any claim.
The verdict in brief: Kamatera holds our Average Score of 4.2 de 320 avis examinés. Customers like the flexible configurations and the stable servers. They complain about charges after cancelling, account locks during sign-up, and spam coming from Kamatera’s IP ranges. It suits people who can run a Linux or Windows server on their own.
Kamatera announced a new data center in Bucharest, Roumanie, sur 8 août 2026, and called it its 25th location. Any review that shows no Eastern European site is now out of date. Its terms also changed on 1 septembre 2026, and we cover what that means below.
Dernière mise à jour: octobre 2026. Données de tarification et d'avis vérifiées.
Visitez le site
| Nom | L'intérêt |
| Total des avis | 320 |
| Score moyen | 4.2 |
| Site Internet | https://www.kamatera.com/ |
| Adresse | 882 3rd avenue. 8ème étage Brooklyn , NOUVEAU 11232 NOUS |
| Emplacements des serveurs | |
Nombre d'avis
Moy. Note d'examen
Service client
Fonctionnalités et services
Kamatera is an infrastructure provider. Il ne vend pas d'hébergement mutualisé, domains or a site builder. You rent virtual machines and the parts around them, then manage them yourself or pay extra for help. Son parent, The OMC Group, has sold cloud services since 1995, and the Kamatera brand dates from 1996.
What You Can Rent
- Serveurs Cloud – virtual machines with Linux, FreeBSD or Windows, billed monthly or by the minute on hourly plans.
- Four CPU types – Type A shares a physical CPU thread with other customers. Type B gets a dedicated thread and Type D a dedicated core. Type T bursts and bills extra above 10% average use.
- Stockage en bloc, équilibreurs de charge, firewalls and private networks – building blocks for bigger setups.
- Service géré – USD 50 a month for system-level monitoring and help, acting only when you ask.
- Reseller accounts and cloud desktops – for agencies and remote Windows users.
Features Customers Actually Mention
The configurator is the reason people pick Kamatera. You choose CPU type, nombre de noyaux, RAM, disk and location separately. A server can have 8 GB of RAM on one core if that’s what your app needs. The calculator lists 36 images du système d'exploitation, from Ubuntu 26.04 et Debian 13 to Windows Server 2025.
A marketplace installs ready images such as cPanel, Plesk, CyberPanel, Panneau Cloud, Docker, n8n and WordPress. Port 25, which mail servers use to send email, isn’t blocked by default. C'est plus rare qu'il ne devrait l'être. The catch is reverse DNS, the record that ties an IP address back to your domain, which receiving mail servers check. We cover it under customer experience.
Scaling is quick. Customers on Trustpilot and Reddit describe adding RAM or cores without moving to a new server. One Reddit user running about 100 Windows machines called the platform solid and flexible, and said the only problem was cost.
Emplacements des centres de données
The pricing calculator offers 21 Emplacements. Nine are in North America: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Les anges, Miami, New York, Sainte Claire, Seattle et Toronto. Seven are in Europe, one is in Tel Aviv, and four are in Asia-Pacific: Hong Kong, Singapour, Tokyo et Sydney. The European sites are Amsterdam, Bucarest, Francfort, Londres, Madrid, Milan et Stockholm.
Kamatera’s own count is higher. Its Bucharest announcement calls the new site its “25th location worldwide”, mais seulement 21 can be picked when you build a server. There’s nothing in South America or Africa.

Look at the date under the map: the post went up on 8 août 2026 and calls Bucharest the 25th location. La source: Kamatera blog, capturé 1 octobre 2026.
Attentes en matière de performances
We measured how fast Kamatera’s network answers, using Globalping, a free public network of measurement probes. Sur 1 octobre 2026 we timed TCP connections to port 443 on Kamatera’s own speed-test servers in five cities. Every probe ran on a home or mobile internet connection, répartis sur 10 des pays.
TCP connection time is how long it takes to open a connection to the server. It’s a close stand-in for network round-trip time. We switched from ping because every target dropped most ping packets. This measures network reach only, not how fast a website loads on Kamatera. Results are in milliseconds (SP).
| Probe city (réseau) | New York | Amsterdam | Bucarest | Singapour | Sydney |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| crême Philadelphia, NOUS (Verizon) | 8.8 SP | 85.7 SP | 123.3 SP | 228.9 SP | 204.8 SP |
| Amsterdam, NL (KPN) | 90.7 SP | 12.3 SP | 44.3 SP | 159.9 SP | 310.4 SP |
| Iasi, RO (Digi) | 120.4 SP | 42.1 SP | 19.1 SP | 183.9 SP | 327.1 SP |
| Londres, Royaume-Uni (Olilo) | 76.9 SP | 12.9 SP | 49.2 SP | 170.4 SP | 280.5 SP |
| Hambourg, DE (Deutsche Telekom) | 96.5 SP | 17.5 SP | 45.2 SP | 186.6 SP | 313.3 SP |
| Singapour, SG (M1) | 231.6 SP | 236.6 SP | 263.7 SP | 5.1 SP | 246.3 SP |
| Kanayannur, DANS (câble FAI) | 269.7 SP | 272.4 SP | 206.1 SP | 55.5 SP | 376.2 SP |
| Brisbane, AU (Aussie Fibre) | 235.2 SP | 314.5 SP | 337.9 SP | 307.6 SP | 24.7 SP |
| Sao Paulo, BR (Téléphonique) | 132.6 SP | 208.6 SP | 239.0 SP | 333.2 SP | 318.0 SP |
| Le Cap, ZA (RSAWEB) | 217.8 SP | 172.8 SP | 192.0 SP | 310.5 SP | 424.1 SP |
Where Kamatera has a nearby site, it’s fast: sous 25 ms in seven of the ten cities. The new Bucharest site answered Iasi in 19.1 SP, contre 42.1 ms for Amsterdam. The gaps show up where Kamatera has no site. Sao Paulo’s best result was 132.6 ms and Cape Town’s was 172.8 SP.

Seven of ten cities reached a Kamatera site in under 25 SP; South America and Africa did not. La source: our Globalping measurement, 1 octobre 2026.
Uptime is murkier. Les tarifs de Kamatera, cloud server and Windows VPS pages advertise a 99.95% garantie de disponibilité. We found no independent uptime monitoring for Kamatera this year, so we can’t tell you how close it comes.

The sales pages promise 99.95%. Compare this with the SLA further down. La source: Kamatera Windows VPS page, capturé 1 octobre 2026.
Expérience client
Sur Trustpilot, Kamatera has a TrustScore of 4.2 de 387 Commentaires. Parmi ceux-là, 262 are five-star and 90 sont une étoile, avec seulement 35 entre. People tend to love it or quit angry.

The score block shows 4.2 de 387 Commentaires; the box below confirms Kamatera invites reviewers. La source: Trustpilot, capturé 1 octobre 2026.
Kamatera invites customers to leave reviews, and Trustpilot records which reviews came from an invitation. We sorted the 89 reviews posted between 1 octobre 2025 et 25 septembre 2026. le 31 invited reviews averaged 4.90: 29 cinq étoiles, 1 quatre étoiles, 1 three-star and nothing lower. le 58 organic reviews averaged 3.97: 42 cinq étoiles, 1 trois étoiles, 2 deux étoiles et 13 une étoile.
Why such a gap? Every one-star review in that year came from someone who found Trustpilot on their own. Aucun des deux groupes n'est faux. Companies usually send invitations once a ticket is closed, so those reviews sample customers right after things went well.

Invited reviewers left no one-star reviews in a year; unprompted reviewers left 13. La source: Trustpilot, 89 reviews counted 1 octobre 2026.
Ce que les clients louent
We searched the 71 five-star reviews from the same year for recurring words. Support leads by far, followed by flexibility and stability.
Un soutien qui répond. 50 du 71 mentionner le soutien, help or quick answers, often naming the staff member. Kamatera also replied to 199 of the newest 200 Avis sur Trustpilot, praise and complaints alike.
Configurations that fit. 24 mention flexibility, scaling or custom configuration. One reviewer liked creating several servers with different specs on one account.
Servers that stay up. 20 mentionner la stabilité, reliability or uptime. A few long-time customers say they’ve never seen downtime.
Plaintes courantes
We read all 15 une- and two-star reviews from that year. Six were about billing: charges after cancelling, a credit balance that drained faster than expected, or suspension notices sent while the account was in credit. The billing FAQ above explains part of it.
Three came from people who aren’t customers at all. They received spam or phishing from Kamatera’s IP ranges and say abuse reports went unanswered. Three more described outages or support that couldn’t fix a technical fault. Two said Kamatera refused to set reverse DNS for a mail server, and one said a trial account was locked as “fraude” en quelques jours.
Commentaires de la communauté sur Reddit
Reddit says more about how Kamatera feels to use than about outright failures. We found 205 posts that mention it, 106 of them since October 2025. Many are promotions, bien que. Near-identical posts advertising up to USD 100 of free credit went up in three deal subreddits on 29 juillet 2026. That’s marketing, not feedback.
Real users are mixed. Un juillet 2026 comment called Kamatera “d'accord, no problem with them” after a move from Hetzner. Un mois de juin 2025 comparison of four hosts rated Kamatera the worst to use, citing a dated control panel and awkward setup. It did praise the speed test results. A later reply agreed, adding clunky SSH key handling (the keys used to log in remotely) and confusing pricing.
The sharpest warnings repeat the Trustpilot themes. One user in April 2026 said they had chased a phishing sender on Kamatera’s network for over a year. Another in February 2026 forgot to cancel a trial and found a bill of about USD 100. Un janvier 2026 post said reverse DNS was refused because the site wasn’t a “complet, real website”.
That last point matches Kamatera’s own rules. Reverse DNS is set by ticket only. The site must be hosted on Kamatera and be a full, real website with a valid SSL certificate (the certificate behind HTTPS). The account must also have no prior abuse reports.
Qualité de l'assistance
Kamatera lists 24/7 technical support by phone and email, with numbers in the US and UK, and says customers can also use chat. Sales has its own phone numbers. Billing is reachable by email only, which matters because billing is the top complaint.

Note the last box: billing has an email address and no phone number. La source: Kamatera support page, capturé 1 octobre 2026.
Account locks are the other support pain point. Kamatera’s FAQ admits its fraud checks sometimes lock legitimate accounts. Unlocking needs a short video of you holding a photo ID plus a photo of your card, and review takes one to two business days. Plan for that before you put a client’s site on a new account.
Quand utiliser Kamatera
Kamatera makes sense when you know what you need and want to pay for exactly that.
Bons ajustements
Developers who want an odd shape of server: lots of RAM on few cores, or the reverse. Fixed-plan hosts can’t do that.
Short projects and test environments: hourly servers bill by the minute. Delete one and the meter stops, apart from the invoice for usage so far.
Audiences in North America, L'Europe , Israel or Asia-Pacific: our measurement found fast answers near each of Kamatera’s sites, and Bucharest now covers Romania and its neighbours.
Serveurs Windows: Windows Server is a flat USD 19 extra regardless of core count, so bigger Windows machines get relatively cheaper.
Vous l'aimerez si
- You hate renewal jumps, since Kamatera has no promotional rate to lose.
- You want to test first, since the 30-day trial covers a server worth up to USD 100.
- You need Port 25 open for a mail server, as long as you meet the reverse DNS conditions.
Quand NE PAS utiliser Kamatera
Some of Kamatera’s limits are about skills, others about the contract.
Regardez ailleurs si
This is your first website: there’s no site builder, no bundled control panel, et cPanel coûte en supplément. UNE plan d'hébergement partagé with tools built in will be easier and cheaper.
Email delivery is critical: reverse DNS comes with conditions, and three of last year’s one-star reviews came from people receiving spam sent from Kamatera’s IP ranges. Un dédié service d'hébergement de messagerie avoids both problems.
Your visitors are in South America or Africa: Kamatera has no site on either continent. Our probes in Sao Paulo and Cape Town never got below 132.6 SP.
You run heavy traffic from Asia-Pacific: Hong Kong, Sydney, Tokyo and Singapore servers get 1 TB par mois, pas le 5 TB shown on the plan cards.
Red Flags
- You often cancel mid-month: monthly servers bill the full month from the 1st.
- You need an uptime promise you can enforce: the SLA lets Kamatera reject any claim (see the transparency section).
- You need billing help by phone: billing is email only.
Vultr fixes the coverage gap, and DigitalOcean is easier to learn. Both are covered below.
- Avis sur Kamatera des Etats-Unis
| Score moyen | 4.20 |
| Nombre d'avis | 108 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera du Royaume-Uni
| Score moyen | 3.61 |
| Nombre d'avis | 43 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera d'Israël
| Score moyen | 4.67 |
| Nombre d'avis | 30 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera Du Canada
| Score moyen | 4.23 |
| Nombre d'avis | 28 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera de l'Allemagne
| Score moyen | 3.99 |
| Nombre d'avis | 16 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera d'Italie
| Score moyen | 4.40 |
| Nombre d'avis | 16 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera de l'Inde
| Score moyen | 3.95 |
| Nombre d'avis | 13 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera de Pologne
| Score moyen | 3.53 |
| Nombre d'avis | 12 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera d'Espagne
| Score moyen | 3.40 |
| Nombre d'avis | 9 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera d'Ukraine
| Score moyen | 3.93 |
| Nombre d'avis | 9 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera des Pays-Bas
| Score moyen | 4.00 |
| Nombre d'avis | 9 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera De Russie
| Score moyen | 3.93 |
| Nombre d'avis | 9 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera d'Australie
| Score moyen | 4.09 |
| Nombre d'avis | 7 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera de France
| Score moyen | 3.74 |
| Nombre d'avis | 7 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera de Nouvelle-Zélande
| Score moyen | 3.87 |
| Nombre d'avis | 6 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera de la Turquie
| Score moyen | 4.33 |
| Nombre d'avis | 6 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera de Hong Kong
| Score moyen | 4.80 |
| Nombre d'avis | 6 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera de la Suède
| Score moyen | 3.67 |
| Nombre d'avis | 6 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera d'Arabie Saoudite
| Score moyen | 5.00 |
| Nombre d'avis | 5 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera du Pakistan
| Score moyen | 2.60 |
| Nombre d'avis | 5 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera de la Thaïlande
| Score moyen | 3.08 |
| Nombre d'avis | 5 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera de Serbie
| Score moyen | 4.95 |
| Nombre d'avis | 4 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera de Croatie
| Score moyen | 4.00 |
| Nombre d'avis | 4 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera d'Autriche
| Score moyen | 4.00 |
| Nombre d'avis | 4 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera de Finlande
| Score moyen | 5.00 |
| Nombre d'avis | 4 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera du Vietnam
| Score moyen | 5.00 |
| Nombre d'avis | 4 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera de Bulgarie
| Score moyen | 3.75 |
| Nombre d'avis | 4 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera de la République tchèque
| Score moyen | 4.00 |
| Nombre d'avis | 4 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera du Brésil
| Score moyen | 2.40 |
| Nombre d'avis | 4 Commentaires |
- Avis sur Kamatera d'Afrique du Sud
| Score moyen | 5.00 |
| Nombre d'avis | 4 Commentaires |
Forfaits et tarifs Kamatera
All prices here come from Kamatera’s USD pricing page and calculator, continuer à lire 1 octobre 2026 for a New York server on monthly billing. The page shows no tax line. Il n'y a pas de tarif promotionnel: a server costs the same in its twelfth month as in its first. That flat pricing is a real strength.
Cancellation warning: Kamatera bills monthly servers from the 1st of each month. Cancel a USD 4 server on the 2nd and you still owe the full USD 4 for that month. The same rule applies at every price. Kamatera’s FAQ advises terminating servers before the 1st.

The first paragraph is the rule behind most billing complaints. La source: FAQ Kamatera, why was I charged after I terminated my services, capturé 1 octobre 2026.
The Three Plan Cards
The pricing page now shows three ready-made servers. All three come with 20 Go de stockage NVMe (un type de SSD rapide) et 5 To de trafic.
- De base, 4 USD/mois: 1 vCPU (cœur de processeur virtuel) of Type A, 1 Go de RAM.
- la norme, 25 USD/mois: 2 vCPU of Type B, 2 Go de RAM.
- Pro, 39 USD/mois: 2 vCPU of Type B, 4 Go de RAM.

The price row jumps from USD 4 en USD 25 once the CPU type changes from A to B. La source: Kamatera pricing page, US storefront, capturé 1 octobre 2026.
Notice the jump from Basic to Standard. Both Standard and Pro use Type B, which Kamatera labels “conseillé” because each vCPU gets its own CPU thread. Build the same RAM on Type A in the calculator and it costs far less.
Serveurs personnalisés
| Configuration (mensuel, New York, Linux) | Prix | Renouvelle à |
|---|---|---|
| Type A, 1 vCPU, 1 GB, 20 GB | USD 4 | USD 4 |
| Type A, 1 vCPU, 2 GB, 20 GB | USD 6 | USD 6 |
| Type A, 2 vCPU, 2 GB, 20 GB | USD 10 | USD 10 |
| Type A, 2 vCPU, 4 GB, 40 GB | USD 19 | USD 19 |
| Tapez B, 1 vCPU, 1 GB, 20 GB | USD 9 | USD 9 |
| Tapez B, 2 vCPU, 4 GB, 20 GB (Pro card) | USD 39 | USD 39 |
| Tapez D, 1 vCPU, 1 GB, 20 GB | USD 19 | USD 19 |
Here’s the clearest example. A Type A server with 2 vCPU, 4 Go et 40 Go coûte USD 19. The Pro card has the same cores and RAM, half the disk, et coûte USD 39. Vous payez en USD 20 more for a dedicated thread. That’s worth it for a busy database, and wasted on a small blog.
Add-ons change the picture just as much. Daily backups lift that USD 19 server to USD 23.50. Windows Server lifts it to USD 38.

Same cores and RAM, quatre prix: CPU type and add-ons decide the bill. La source: Calculateur de prix Kamatera, lis 1 octobre 2026.
Add-Ons and Hidden Costs
- Serveur Windows: un dollar fixe 19 un mois supplémentaire, whether the server has 2, 4 ou 8 vCPU. Windows needs at least 2 processeur virtuel et 2 Go de RAM.
- Sauvegardes quotidiennes: kept for up to 14 journées. They added USD 3 to the USD 4 server and USD 4.50 to the USD 19 une.
- Panneaux de contrôle: Administrateur cPanel (5 comptes) added USD 35, and Plesk Web Admin added USD 22, sur un 1 vCPU, 2 Serveur Go.
- Service géré: USD 50 un mois, donc le dollar 4 server becomes USD 54.
- Extra storage and traffic: USD 0.05 per GB per month and USD 0.01 par Go.
- Powered-off hourly servers: still charged a small hourly fee for disk and IP address.
- Unused deposits: after six months idle, Kamatera charges 2% of the deposit per month and deletes it after 30 mois.
Traffic is the trap that’s easiest to miss. The plan cards show 5 TB for every city in their location menu. Kamatera’s own FAQ says servers in Hong Kong, Sydney, Tokyo and Singapore get 1 TB par mois.
Free Trial and the Fine Print
New accounts get 30 days on one server worth up to USD 100, avec 1 To de trafic. A valid credit card is required. If card verification fails, Kamatera asks for a refundable USD 10 deposit instead. Forget to delete the trial server and billing simply starts.
There’s also a contract point. Kamatera’s terms let it change prices “à tout moment”, en vigueur immédiatement, even for customers who bought a longer term. Flat pricing today isn’t a promise about next year.
Verdict sur les prix
For Linux servers on Type A, Kamatera is cheap and honest: USD 4 pour 1 GB, USD 19 pour 4 GB, and the same price every month. It gets expensive once you add Windows, cPanel, backups or Type B threads. Price your full build in the calculator before you compare it with anyone else. Don’t hold out for Black Friday: we found no Kamatera Black Friday offer in 2024 ou 2025, on its site or in archive copies.
- Bande passante illimitée
- Panneau cPanel Direct Admin ISP Manager Plesk
- Nombre de sites N/A
- Bande passante 5 TB
- Panneau cPanel Direct Admin ISP Manager Plesk
- Nombre de sites illimité
- Bande passante 5 TB
- Panneau cPanel Direct Admin ISP Manager Plesk
- Nombre de sites illimité
- Bande passante 5 TB
- Panneau cPanel Direct Admin ISP Manager Plesk
- Nombre de sites illimité
- CPU –
- CPU 1 x 2,6 GHz
- RAM 1 GB
Score de transparence de Kamatera
We graded how clearly Kamatera presents what buyers need, not whether the terms are generous.
- Informations sur la société: Bien – the site names its leadership and the parent group, and the terms name Kamatera Inc. as a US company. No street address appears anywhere on the site.
- Transparence des prix: Bien – every configuration and most add-ons are priced live in the calculator, and there’s no renewal markup. le 1 TB limit in four cities appears only in an FAQ.
- Documentation technique: Limité – CPU claims disagree across pages: “Xeon Platinum/Cascade Lake” on pricing, “Xeon Platinum/Ice Lake” in the FAQ, “Xeon Gold/Ice Lake” on the about page.
- termes & Politiques: Limité – the SLA contradicts the sales pages, and it hands Kamatera full discretion over every claim.
The SLA is where this matters most. It defines 99.9% availability as up to 8 heures d'arrêt par an. That’s not the 99.95% advertised elsewhere on the site.

The binding figure is 99.9%, defined as 8 hours a year. La source: Kamatera Service Level Agreement, capturé 1 octobre 2026.
If Kamatera misses that target, the credit is one free month of the failed service, jusqu'à USD 5,000, once a year. You must claim in writing within 14 journées. Then come the exclusions. They cover “any outage or stoppage of network connectivity or infrastructure” et, enfin, rien “at Kamatera’s sole discretion and for any reason”.

Exclusion M closes the list: Kamatera can refuse a claim for any reason. La source: Kamatera Service Level Agreement, capturé 1 octobre 2026.
The terms dated 1 septembre 2026 add two more points. The customer is now “solely responsible for all security” inside its own server. Kamatera’s liability is capped at USD 5,000 ou 12 months of fees, whichever is lower, replacing the earlier one-month cap.
Transparence globale: Kamatera is open about prices and closed about guarantees. Traiter 99.95% as marketing and the SLA as the real deal.
Alternatives à Kamatera
Each alternative below fixes one gap from the section above. Les prix ont été lus 1 octobre 2026 and show no tax line.
For South America and Africa: Vultr
Vultr court 33 régions nuageuses, including Johannesburg, Sao Paulo, Santiago and Mexico City. Its Regular Cloud Compute plans cost USD 5.00 pour 1 vCPU, 1 Go et 25 GB. le 2 vCPU, 4 GB, 80 Le forfait GB coûte USD 20.00. That’s a dollar more than Kamatera at each size. You get more disk and nearby sites for those visitors, but less traffic: 1 La tuberculose et 3 TB against Kamatera’s 5 TB.
For an Easier Start: DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean’s Basic servers cost USD 6.00 pour 1 Go avec 25 GiB of disk. le 2 vCPU, 4 GiB plan with 80 GiB costs USD 24.00. You pay a little more than at Kamatera. In return you get a simpler control panel and fixed plans that are easy to compare.
For a Panel-First VPS: Hostinger
On a 2-year term, Hostinger facture des USD 6.49 a month for its KVM 1 VPS. For that you get one vCPU, 50 GB of NVMe disk and 4 Go de mémoire. Il se renouvelle en USD 11.99, so check the second-term cost. It suits buyers who want a guided panel more than a configurator.
Vultr and DigitalOcean also publish hourly rates, so you can test either for a day the way you’d test Kamatera.
Kamatera earns our Average Score of 4.2 de 320 avis examinés, and it deserves it for flexible, honestly priced Linux servers. It loses points on billing rules, account locks and an SLA that guarantees less than the sales pages say.
Notre avis
Buy Kamatera if you can run a server yourself and want to choose every component. Delete servers before the 1st, conservez vos propres sauvegardes, and read the SLA before you promise anyone uptime. Sur Trustpilot, invited reviewers rated it 4.90 over the past year while organic reviewers gave 3.97.
Pick Vultr if your visitors are in South America or Africa, and DigitalOcean if you’d rather learn on a simpler panel. Beginners building a first site should skip cloud servers and start with shared hosting.
To see how Kamatera compares with other servers you control fully, lire notre KVM VPS comparison.
Questions fréquemment posées
Can a beginner run a website on Kamatera?
Oui, but expect to do the setup work yourself. You get a bare server, so you install the web server, database and security updates on your own. A marketplace WordPress image helps. If WordPress is the goal, une hébergeur WordPress géré does the server work for you.
Does Kamatera raise prices after the first month?
Not today, because there’s no promotional rate to expire, donc un USD 4 server stays at USD 4. Its terms do allow price changes at any time, en vigueur immédiatement, so check each invoice.
Why do some Kamatera customers get charged after cancelling?
Monthly servers bill from the 1st of each month, so cancelling on the 2nd still costs that whole month. Hourly servers are billed a month later for past use, so a final invoice can arrive after you delete them.
Kamatera ou Vultr: which is cheaper for a small server?
Kamatera is cheaper by a dollar: son 1 Le serveur Go coûte USD 4 contre USD 5.00 at Vultr. Vultr gives 25 GB of disk instead of 20 GB mais 1 TB of traffic instead of 5 TB. It also has sites in South America and Africa.
Does Kamatera really guarantee 99.95% disponibilité?
Not in the contract that counts. The sales pages say 99.95%, but the SLA itself commits to 99.9%. It also lets Kamatera reject any compensation claim at its sole discretion.
Can I get my money back from Kamatera?
Non, Kamatera offers no money-back guarantee, and its terms make fees non-refundable. The 30-day free trial is your safety net instead. Un dollar 10 trial deposit is refunded if you cancel within the trial.
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