Psychz Networks

What Psychz Networks actually is

Psychz Networks is the trading name of Profuse Solutions Inc., a Los Angeles company operating AS40676 that has been in web hosting since 2001 and has run its own facilities since 2014, when it took over operation of its first data center — power, cooling, and network paths included. That history matters in this category: a large fraction of "hosting brands" are resellers, and Psychz is not one. Its homepage claims 25+ years of service, and its public timeline backs the shape of the story — VPS entry in 2009, managed services in 2012, own data center in 2014, Dallas and Ashburn points of presence in 2015, then a long expansion run: London, Amsterdam, and Johannesburg in 2017; Mumbai, Taipei, Tokyo, and Chicago in 2018; Singapore, Sydney, and Barcelona in 2019 along with a 5 Tbps network expansion; Seoul and Moscow in 2020; Atlanta in 2025.

The product line is what an infrastructure generalist looks like. Dedicated bare metal (the "c Metal" line, express-deployable via website or API), virtual machines, colocation in 66 facilities globally per the vendor, IP transit, BGP sessions, GRE tunnels, private networking, CDN, a global game accelerator aimed at game-server latency, and — increasingly the reason people find this company — DDoS mitigation that can be sold for a network hosted somewhere else entirely. Deliverable by GRE tunnel, fiber cross-connect, VLAN, or reverse proxy, the remote protection needs no ASN or BGP-capable router in the reverse-proxy form, which puts serious filtering within reach of an ordinary site owner.

The DDoS story is the vendor's spine, so it is worth getting the numbers right — our database entry did not. The vendor's own pages state free DDoS protection up to 2 Gbps on every dedicated server (an FAQ page) with mitigation packages "up to 500 Gbps" (homepage), and its 2016 timeline entry records "DDoS Mitigation of up to 500 Gbps." A 2026 third-party review (owlwebmasters.com) reports 20 Gbps of filtering bundled with every dedicated machine, tiers running 30/40/50/100/500 Gbps, layer 3/4/7 coverage, and fourteen scrubbing points worldwide. The "up to 2 Tbps" figure in our listing matches none of these, and we have corrected it. Network capacity is a different number: the vendor advertises 6 Tbps+ of connectivity.

Pricing: what you really pay

Psychz publishes a full price catalogue — 158 plans priced to the dollar, per the owlwebmasters review, which also puts the entry dedicated server at $19.20/month and the largest at $1,159/month. Virtual machines start at $4/month (2 cores, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB fast disk, traffic not billed) and can also be rented hourly from $0.0011/hour — the cheapest way we know of in this category to test a provider for a day. Colocation starts around $69/month per the vendor's older forum promotions; object storage is $2/month plus capacity ($7.99 for the first spinning-disk terabyte, $69.99 for ten, with flash tiers higher), and notably carries no egress charges at all. Continuous backup sells as capacity bundles from $24/month for 500 GB.

Remote DDoS protection is priced as openly as everything else: $399/month for 10 Gbps of filtering with 100 Mbps of clean traffic (that includes a $50 base), scaling to $2,499/month for 500 Gbps. Clean-traffic upgrades, emergency four-hour setup ($250 one-time), and a seven-day paid trial on the 100 Gbps tier round out the menu. In our view this is how an infrastructure vendor should publish prices: the numbers exist, the tiers exist, and a buyer can model the bill before talking to anyone.

Two billing facts deserve warning-label treatment. First, every payment is final and non-refundable under almost any condition — the continuous backup product is the single stated exception with its advertised thirty days. Second, "unmetered" bandwidth is qualified by a fair-use threshold that is not published. The hourly VM option softens both problems: a day of testing costs fractions of a cent, and the paid trial lets you validate mitigation before committing.

Performance & infrastructure

We have not benchmarked Psychz, so no /benchmarks numbers exist for it — treat performance claims as vendor and third-party assertions. What the network design shows: tier-1 multi-homed transit with route optimization toward specific regions, Comcast on-net in US locations since 2024, unmetered bandwidth on the sBlock/sObject/cVirtual/cMetal lines in the US since 2025, and anycast offered as an option on DDoS packages. The sixteen-city footprint (Los Angeles, Ashburn, Dallas, Chicago, Atlanta, Amsterdam, London, Barcelona, Moscow, Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei, Mumbai, Sydney, São Paulo, Johannesburg per the third-party catalogue audit) is the unusual asset — nobody else in this market puts Johannesburg, São Paulo, Mumbai, and Moscow on one account.

The published service commitment is unusually specific and unusually generous. Per the third-party review of the terms: 99.9% network uptime on N+1 paths (100% power for customers taking A and B feeds), 5% service credit for every thirty minutes of network or power outage up to the entire month's fee, twenty-four-hour deployment on in-stock servers, three-hour hardware replacement for in-stock parts, fifteen minutes to a first ticket response, and sixty minutes to escalate to a senior engineer. Where most providers cap credits at 10% of a monthly invoice, a full day of downtime here can wipe it out. The catch is the one that always exists: these are written promises, and public reviews describe uneven provisioning and support quality — the satisfaction data is genuinely split across platforms with tiny samples on each side.

Where it falls short

The contract terms are the sharpest edge. Beyond the no-refunds rule, governing law is Texas with binding confidential arbitration in California, claims extinguish after one calendar year, and the usage policy reserves Psychz a discretionary right to remove content it finds objectionable — including otherwise legal content — to protect its brand. For legal-but-sensitive workloads (adult publishing is the classic case, and the vendor's permission for it lives in an un-updated 2015 forum answer rather than the policy), get written confirmation before you deploy.

Reputation is mixed in a way we cannot average away. Forum threads complain about provisioning delays and routing; others praise the network reach and pricing. The company behind the brand is verifiable and operating real infrastructure — this is not a scam — but the support experience appears to vary by ticket.

One more signal worth weighing: the vendor timeline shows steady product investment rather than pure hosting arbitrage — sBlock and sObject storage in 2024, cVirtual and Atlanta in 2025, a pay-per-use bare-metal line in 2021, an AI network firewall and route optimization from 2021-2022. Companies that ship infrastructure products year after year rarely vanish overnight, and in a category where hosts disappear mid-contract, that cadence is evidence. It does not cancel the contract-terms warnings above, but it does tell you the operator is building for the long term.

European presence exists (Amsterdam, London, Barcelona) but is thinner than the US and Asia footprint. Documentation and the control panel are functional rather than polished. And the storage line's fair-use clause on "unmetered" traffic means the headline free egress has an unpublished ceiling.

Who should pick this

Our pick for operators who need serious DDoS mitigation, unusual geographic reach (South America, Africa, South and East Asia on one account), or both — particularly game servers, streaming platforms, and media sites whose audiences sit outside Europe and North America. The remote-mitigation product is a genuine category standout: a site already under attack can be behind a filter the same day without moving its server.

It is a worse fit for buyers who need refundable commitments, contractual comfort under EU jurisdiction, or white-glove support — the terms are strict and the reviews say support is uneven. Our practical advice mirrors what we would do ourselves: use the hourly VMs and the paid mitigation trial to validate the network before committing, get content-policy questions in writing, and treat the 15-minute response promise as a claim to test during the trial rather than a fact.

Key takeaways

• Real operator, not a reseller: Profuse Solutions Inc. (Los Angeles, AS40676), hosting since 2001, own facilities since 2014.
• Sixteen cities across four continents — the only mainstream host covering Johannesburg, São Paulo, Mumbai, and Moscow on one account.
• DDoS mitigation is the headline: free filtering on every dedicated server (2 Gbps per vendor, 20 Gbps per third-party audit), packages to 500 Gbps, remote protection from $399/month over GRE, VLAN, cross-connect, or reverse proxy.
• Public catalogue of 158 priced plans: VMs from $4/month (hourly from $0.0011), dedicated from $19.20/month, S3-compatible object storage with no egress fees.
• SLA with teeth: 99.9% network uptime and 5% credit per half hour of outage up to a full month's fees — but all payments are non-refundable and claims expire after one year.
• The DB's "2 Tbps" DDoS claim is unsupported by any vendor page; support reputation is mixed, so test before you commit.

Sources

• https://www.psychz.net/about-us.html
• https://www.psychz.net/network.html
• https://www.psychz.net/index.html
• https://www.psychz.net/client/question/en/hosted-server-for-small-business.html
• https://owlwebmasters.com/en/services/psychz/