Catalyst Host - One year later, the how's my host now edition?

connercg

Where to start after being with a host for a year?

The performance is solid, the support is quick and efficient, service is as expected every time. They always try to do right by their customers. They seldom RFO and if there is an issue, it's resolved quickly (in minutes usually) and generally issue a credit. The price is justified by the performance and support (while still being in the LEB price range) and I don't have any of the issues you read about with other providers. You get what you pay for is my opinion...

You might expect disk I/O or bandwidth to decease over time, but what do when your VPS is a fast as it was a year ago?

• Buy more VPSs from the provider.

What do you do when support tickets are answered promptly and in detail?

• Nothing, their doing it right.

What do you do when you have a question about an image?

• Ticket support and it magically appears.

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I don't see a reason to go into a long in-depth review, as this has already been done here ...

http://www.96mb.com/96mb-low-end-vps-review-part-68catalysthost-2gb/

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Here are my bench marks for this evenings post...

OVZ - 2GB

[root@cp ~]# sh bench.sh
CPU model :  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 0 @ 2.00GHz
Number of cores : 4
CPU frequency :  2000.086 MHz
Total amount of ram : 2048 MB
Total amount of swap : 512 MB
System uptime :   39 days, 4:01,
Download speed from CacheFly: 107MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 57.1MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 109MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 8.67MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, NL:
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 10.5MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 6.73MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 29.8MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 29.7MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 34.6MB/s
I/O speed :  190 MB/s

KVM - 256MB

[root@dfw2 ~]# sh bench.sh
CPU model :  QEMU Virtual CPU version (cpu64-rhel6)
Number of cores : 1
CPU frequency :  1999.999 MHz
Total amount of ram : 243 MB
Total amount of swap : 1023 MB
System uptime :   36 days, 7:58,
Download speed from CacheFly: 60.7MB/s
Download speed from Coloat, Atlanta GA: 39.4MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Dallas, TX: 93.6MB/s
Download speed from Linode, Tokyo, JP: 9.16MB/s
Download speed from i3d.net, NL:
Download speed from Leaseweb, Haarlem, NL: 5.12MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Singapore: 9.09MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Seattle, WA: 39.8MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, San Jose, CA: 40.6MB/s
Download speed from Softlayer, Washington, DC: 42.1MB/s
I/O speed :  266 MB/s

TL;DR - Service doesn't suck, support answers tickets quickly, why are you reading this, buy Catalyst Host.

ryanarp

Thanks for the awesome feedback!

HalfEatenPie

Thanks Conner for the fantastic review! We do what we can to make sure our nodes are in top shape!