Services
I've been with @INIZ since November 4. I've switched between three plans with them so far, although I've only had VPS in their Amsterdam, NL datacenter (which is nForce).
- 2GB OpenVZ VPS (NL, nForce)
- 1GB KVM VPS (NL, nForce)
- 512MB KVM VPS (NL, nForce)
2GB OpenVZ VPS (NL, nForce)
The first one was 2GB OpenVZ VPS that I used as an Electrum node. Even though electrum-server and bitcoind were extremely resource-hungry (both I/O, RAM and space-wise), the node ran just fine for four solid months.
I had no downtime at all during this time, but DDoS attacks on a server in the datacenter in December and February made my VPS unreachable or barely accessible for a few hours.
However, Patrick sent mails to affected customers, informing us of the situation pretty quickly. Unfortunately, I haven't saved any benchmarks from that time, but network speeds have never been an issue, and disk I/O (dd) was between 200 and 400MBps.
1GB KVM VPS (NL, nForce)
In February, I switched to a 1GB KVM VPS (I stopped running my Electrum node), which worked pretty well too. I kept it for a couple of months, up until a few days ago. Again, there was no issue with the network and support was top notch, since Patrick is easily reachable in case a problem arises (he idles on IRC).
The only problem was (is?) with abusers on the node I was on. During those two months I would often pop into SSH and run a random dd test at different times of the day, and I'd often end up getting inbetween 5 and 35MBps. Upon contacting Patrick and stopping the abuse, I/O rose back to its normal speeds (between 100 and 200MBps). An excerpt from a ticket (March 11):
http://i.imgur.com/j9VQ9IA.png
Thankfully, I wasn't using any service requiring good I/O, so it didn't impact me much, but it could have for other users. That's the only trouble I've had in my experience with INIZ.
512MB KVM VPS (NL, nForce)
Recently, I downgraded to a 512MB KVM VPS, and I was transferred to another node. I use it as my main VPS (LEMP + mailserver + OpenVPN). I'm back to getting great speeds:
Here's the combined 1GB KVM VPS + 512MB KVM VPS uptime & network speeds for the last month. I rebooted yesterday, so don't mind the uptime:
Conclusion
I came to INIZ for a high-RAM plan, and I ended up staying as a faithful customer!
Patrick and his associate run a solid show together. The highlights of INIZ are their great network speeds (at least from their Amsterdam location) as well as their fast and available support. The I/O might be slow from time to time although it hasn't been an issue for me since I don't use services that heavily rely on I/O.
I have yet to try their new NY location, though it seems pretty promising.
All around, INIZ is a great provider - I can't complain. Try them out ;)