After reading here on LET that GreenValueHost was going to leave the dark side and become more transparent and lift some of the restrictions I decided to give them a try.
Plan: Mid-Jan LET Exclusive 1 - LET Link - $5.00 USD/mo
Promised Specs: 4gb ram/8gb vswap. 250gb Raid10 SSD, 100tb bandwidth, 1gbit port. 2 IPv4
Stability: There were a few down times at first lasting from 3 mins up to an hour. I then received a notice stating they were aware of the issues and were working with their upstream provider to fix it, stability has been pretty great since then. I am running a small photo site [depixation.com] and it appears to run pretty smooth. New site, new domain so the traffic is pretty low at this point, average is 80 unique views daily. Server up time is sitting at 99.2%.
Support: I signed up for Buffalo and was put on a Texas server, which I was okay with. Setup took three days, this was my first experience with a service that's not instant. I was a little bummed but accepted it for what it was. I opened two tickets and though I was answered within 15 minutes I was pretty disappointed with the feedback received. Reply's were short, poorly typed and came off a little arrogant but my questions were answered.
Overall: I'm actually happy with the service, the majority of my experiences have been positive. The tests posted below are lower than other providers I use, but it's more than enough to maintain my site. Up time has significantly improved since Feb 2nd. If you are a potential customer who is thick-skinned or not too concerned about staff friendliness I do recommend their service as they appear to be going in the right direction.
Stats:dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 16.7028 s, 64.3 MB/s
wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2014-03-04 11:44:21-- http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: /dev/null
100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 65.3M/s in 1.5s
2014-03-04 11:44:23 (65.3 MB/s) - /dev/null'saved [104857600/104857600]
