I have used INIZ for 60 days now, after I got a good deal on LEB. The plan was using them for one of my DNS failover servers. Read the full review here...
Product/hardware/price
INIZ provides unmanaged service in three locations: Los Angeles, New York and Amsterdam, Netherlands. They offer OpenVZ plans, pure SSD plans and KVM plans. They have plans from $4.93/mo (256 MB) to $19.72/mo (2 GB)
I’m using a LEB special and have a OpenVZ, 4vCores (Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2650 0 @ 2.00GHz), 2 GB RAM, 100 GB disk, 2 TB bw plan that I’m paying $46.50/year for ($3.85/mo). I’m using their Netherlands node.
Their prices is not very low, almost $15/mo for a 1 GB OpenVZ server with no SSD is actually some expensive. But, INIZ is a active member on LEB, and often has very good offers, like what I'm using. So always take a look at LEB and the VPS offer section of WHT before you order from them.
I have seen some high load on the node from time to time, but I'm sure INIZ has it all under control, since the load is not seen for any long time.
Service/Support
Not much to say about their support, have not tried it all the last 60 days. But since they made it to place number 3 on the Q4-2013 (and Q3-2013) poll on LEB, and they must have a good support team.
I have not used the server for any live site. I used it for a month or so as a backup server on my DNS failover service. So I replicated my sites every hour to my INIZ server.
Benchmark:
My plan is “only” a RAID-10 plan, but I get some good disk speeds here. I must say that I have also seen speeds down to 250 MB/s, but I get speeds over 500 MB/s most of the time.
Network/uptime
My monitoring services tells me that I have a 99.949% uptime the last 2 months with 1 minute monitors.
Conclusion
INIZ.com is a good provider with good hardware and network, with great offers from time to time. I have got really much value for my money with them. They do not have much downtime and they are holding their promise of 99.9% uptime.
They are getting 4 of 6 stars in my book (using the hotel standard) since I have not tried their support yet. 4 stars is a good rating.
INIZ is getting 8 of 10 points in this review. (on my new changed point system)