Kamatera

Kamatera offers four CPU types: Type A (Availability) with shared physical threads starting at $4/month, Type B (General Purpose) with dedicated threads and reserved resources starting at $9/month, Type T (Burstable) for sporadic workloads with usage-based overage, and Type D (Dedicated) with a full physical CPU core (2 threads) starting at $19/month.

Kamatera uses a fully configurable, pay-as-you-go model. You build your exact server by choosing vCPU count, RAM, SSD storage, and traffic, then pay monthly or hourly with no long-term contracts. The pricing calculator shows your total cost before you commit. There are no promotional rates that increase on renewal — the price stays the same.

Yes. Kamatera supports both monthly and hourly billing. Hourly servers are billed by the minute, which is ideal for short-lived or test workloads. Monthly billing is more cost-effective for always-on production servers. You can switch billing modes when configuring a server.

Kamatera offers a 30-day free trial that allows you to deploy one server configured up to $100 in value with 1 TB of free traffic. A valid credit card is required for verification, but you are not charged as long as you stay within the trial limits. The trial gives full access to test performance and features.

Kamatera operates 20+ data center locations across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East — including New York, Dallas, Los Angeles, Toronto, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan, Stockholm, Tel Aviv, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, and Sydney. You choose your preferred location when deploying a server.

Kamatera cloud servers are unmanaged by default — you get full root/administrator access and are responsible for server administration. Fully managed cloud services are available as a paid add-on, where Kamatera handles setup, monitoring, security patching, and maintenance for you.

Monthly servers in the US and Europe include 5 TB of outbound traffic; Asia-Pacific locations include 1 TB. Additional traffic is billed at $0.01 per GB. Premium unmetered options with a 50 Mbit/s guaranteed line are also available for predictable high-bandwidth workloads.

Yes. You can add block storage to any server at $0.05 per GB per month. Storage is NVMe SSD-backed for high performance, and you can attach, resize, or detach volumes as your needs change without rebuilding the server.

Kamatera servers are provisioned almost instantly — typically ready in under a minute after you confirm the configuration. This applies to both monthly and hourly servers, and you can scale resources up or down on demand without migrating to a new machine.

Kamatera supports 30+ operating systems including Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, FreeBSD, and Windows Server/Desktop editions. Prebuilt application images (such as WordPress, cPanel, Docker, and databases) are also available for one-click deployment. Custom ISO images can be uploaded as well.

Yes, Kamatera provides daily managed backups as a paid add-on, along with on-demand server snapshots. Backups are stored separately from your server so you can restore to a previous state if needed. Backup pricing depends on the size of the data being protected.

Kamatera offers DDoS protection as an add-on service rather than included by default on every plan. Managed firewall and load balancer services are also available. For mission-critical workloads, these network security add-ons can be enabled during or after deployment.

Yes. Kamatera lets you scale vCPU, RAM, and storage up or down on demand. Vertical scaling is done from the console without migrating to a different server, and horizontal scaling is possible by adding more servers behind a load balancer.

Yes, Kamatera offers a REST API and command-line tools for programmatically creating, managing, and deleting servers, snapshots, networks, and other resources. This enables infrastructure automation and integration with CI/CD pipelines and configuration management tools.

Kamatera does not offer a traditional money-back guarantee, but the 30-day free trial lets you test the service risk-free up to $100 in value. Because billing is pay-as-you-go with no long-term contract, you can terminate a server at any time to stop charges.