Hostgator VPS in 2014?

I am planning to move from shared to VPS, because I've reached their CPU limit several times already (on "hot" hours). Also, 25 simultaneous connections is causing problems for me a lot as well, because on "hot" hours, I go beyond this limit often.

I'm no looking for any speed improvement, because even on shared plan loading speed was okey to me.

Basically I just need a plan which could hold at least 300 (up to 800-1000 on peak hours) users online at the same time. I don't host any videos or anything heavy, I just have a few blogs with articles and few images in each article and like this I don't consume a lot of resources anyways. But because of a high traffic, I need to move from a shared plan. Even with a shared plan I had no problems with ~200-250 users online at the same time and getting around 5000-8000 unique visits each day, so I don't think I need to order the best VPS plan.

I'm thinking about their new "snappy 1000". It has 1GB of RAM, 1 core CPU, 60GB of storage (which is more than I need) and 1TB of bandwidth (I use now around 150-300GB each month, so more than I need as well).

Anyone here tried their new VPS that are now called "snappy"? Anyone here moved from shared to one of their snappy plans?