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Calls Contabo the worst host they have used in 15 years.

Moved hosting from Azure web apps to Linux on Hetzner with Cloudflare edge caching and cut the monthly cost dramatically.

Finds Contabo good value and flexible for both site and email hosting.

Runs KVM 2 plans and advises paying monthly, since one plan kept its old price while another jumped sharply on the next bill. Cancelling anytime is a plus for them.

Finds Contabo low quality, with roughly 30 percent CPU steal that forces buying more vCPUs than needed.

Uses RackNerd and checked their plan: about a year for a modest price with 2 cores, 3.5GB RAM, a 65GB drive and plenty of bandwidth, seen as roughly on par in price with a pricier Hostinger plan.

Moved servers from Hetzner to Scaleway after Hetzner raised prices by more than other cloud providers.

Has run several projects for months on an OVH 4 CPU, 8GB VPS with no problems and previously had good experience with Hetzner.

Bought an IPv6-only netcup VPS two months ago and enjoyed the low price with Cloudflare proxying, until a service needing IPv4 whitelisting caught them out.

Hosts with both Linode and Hetzner. Finds Hetzner cloud locations often full, so adding new servers can take months, and notes Hetzner has begun raising prices.

Running multiple VPS instances for production web apps and AI agents with zero downtime and fast customer support responses.

A newer OVH VPS-2 plan gave absolutely awful, CPU-starved performance for a game server, unlike their earlier VPS-3.

Finds Hostinger great for most use cases unless bandwidth limits matter, with only good experience in North America.

Support would not respond during outages and afterwards said they saw no problems on their end.

They currently run a VPS with IONOS and have no complaints, though they describe their use case as simple.

Moved 26 low-traffic WordPress sites onto one large Contabo VPS with CloudPanel in 2024, using about 9GB of RAM with object caching, and notes disk can drag under load.

Going through last year they found they appear to have been double billed, which they link to shifting billing dates.

Newly assigned DDoS-protected IP came cluttered with dozens of old firewall rules and support ignored tickets and refund requests for 17 days.

Had two Linux VPSes restart unexpectedly during the outage and could no longer log in with their passwords.

Recycled DDoS-protected IPs retained old customer firewall rules without being reset, and mounting issues after the acquisition forced a move to OVH.

Had three servers down for over 48 hours with no information from Hostwinds and plans to move to a new host.

Later netcup VPSs had weaker, slower virtual CPUs than the US ones, though they would still choose netcup for a VPS.

Used Hostwinds for a few years without issues, but their server hosting a newly released app's backend has been down for 48 hours with customer service suddenly unavailable.

Production e-commerce down 72+ hours after maintenance and support sent a canned reply without reading logs.

Happy customer but cannot honestly say netcup support is OK.

Has multiple sites and databases on Hostwinds that went offline and came back repeatedly for 24 hours with a broken ticketing system; credentials were reset and needed a support email to regain access.

Runs RAM-heavy quiet services on a 12GB Contabo VPS, noting shared CPU on the cheap RAM-heavy plans is real.

Business account setup took a week and tax is still not set correctly.

Locked out of the Hostwinds client area for a second day while needing to work on a client's website.

Paid for a server and received no credentials or reply to two tickets.

Received an unpaid-bill email despite paying on time through PayPal, then lost client-area access with all websites down and only AI chat bots on live chat.

Many-year customer who found service rock solid until recently, then had their VPS terminated without warning followed by this outage, and will not renew.

Customer of eight years whose VPS hosting three business sites was accidentally deleted by Hostwinds and restored after a complaint; then the server went down again with the client area inaccessible and no timeframe.

Could not connect over FTP or update their sites during the outage, though their existing sites kept working, and says they have had no problems in several years with Hostwinds before this.

They run many client sites on an IONOS VPS with no complaints. On the rare occasions they needed support it was great.

KVM 8 renewed at 777 euros after paying 276 the previous year, and support offered only 20% off.

Runs everything on OVHcloud EU VPS instances; availability can be limited, but they are much cheaper than Hetzner for similar specs.

They run hobby projects on a 1 euro per month VPS and report zero problems so far.

Servers were rebooted at peak hours on five minutes' notice and many never came back online.

Bought an OVH VPS at a very good price, but the account was banned without explanation and support was terrible, leaving two days to move a web app elsewhere.

Reported a demonstrated networking issue and support asked for root credentials instead of investigating.

Contabo oversells and has constant performance issues; mail server lagging.

Linode has been spectacular; phone support answered immediately.

Has been on Vultr with good experiences, though without any robust performance comparisons.

Found it too technical and the interface somewhat impossible to use, and OVH was much simpler.

Their Hostinger KVM 8 was CPU-limited 13 times in 10 days with steal peaking at 69% whenever pushed hard.

Worked smoothly without a single issue and offers a clean, focused set of cloud services.

Expected to leave netcup within weeks but found it superb: clean IPs, easy rDNS and no uptime problems.

Years of great experience; one node corruption was handled with off-site backups and minimal downtime.

Says OVH is fine until you need support, which can take 48 hours to give useful information, and the website UX is awful.

VPS running almost five years with no complaints or noticed downtime.

Self-hosts with Docker and Dokploy on a Hetzner VPS and describes the setup as smooth.

Moved to OVH after unreliable service elsewhere: solid uptime and an easy GUI.

Runs four Next.js apps on Hetzner with Dokploy and after a year has had very few issues, all fixed quickly, though it needs more initial setup and some Linux knowledge.

After trying many providers settled on Hetzner for production; nothing comes close even after two price rises this year.

Runs a custom Next.js e-commerce store self-hosted with Docker and Coolify on a Hetzner VPS; calls it incredibly fast and easy, and the shop sees sales up 20 to 50 percent.

Runs Next.js, Postgres and Caddy on a single cheap Hetzner VPS with Docker Compose, and pages are fast because the database sits next to the app.

Moved to Hetzner with Coolify and Cloudflare for price and full control, getting a cheap solution and plenty of disk for the database, at the cost of a learning curve.

Has run their small business site on Linode for a decade at $5 a month.

Three VPS have been generally fine despite one machine issue they had to diagnose themselves, and you get more than you pay for.

Moved from Hostinger shared hosting to Hetzner, which has been a solid choice so far.

OVH repeatedly gave blacklisted IPs while Hostinger and Hetzner were fine in production.

In production for a while and great, though prices recently rose for new orders.

Paid first and only then was asked for lots of sensitive information by email.

Hetzner is super cheap compared with Google, Amazon and even Alibaba.

A small business owner is leaving because of price increases and billing-date changes while still liking Hetzner and its products and support.

Hetzner has always been responsive, unlike a cheaper host with no support.

Wanted green infrastructure and would pay a premium, but the new pricing went from manageable to bleeding them dry overnight.

Finds OVH pretty solid, but says the newer VPS plans push pricing while performance takes a very big hit versus the older ones.

Prepaid a two-year Hostinger VPS 4 for about $200-250 with the signup discount, but renewal is around $500.

Hetzner servers have much better performance and price value than DigitalOcean but lack cloud services like k8s.

Runs a 4-core 8GB OVH VPS for a reverse proxy and some Python apps with no iowait problems.

Moved from DigitalOcean to Hetzner and database jobs took a third of the time on cheaper shared vCPUs.

On OVH VPS-1: support takes 24-48 hours and CPUs are older, but otherwise good for their SaaS app and WordPress sites.

Three or four years on an OVH VPS without an issue, though not doing anything advanced.

Could not SSH into a new Hetzner VPS; support said the account was locked for missing documentation that sign-up never requested.

They run a RackNerd VPS with the Enhance control panel to host close to 300 mailboxes, using yearly deals.

The cheapest Hetzner plan runs four websites, a bot and a proxy and is still overpowered.

Calls netcup the most boring provider because nothing ever happens, and low priced.

A 2 vCPU, 2.5 GB RAM, 40 GB SSD, 3 TB a month plan for 20 dollars a year is great value.

A long-time Hetzner customer moved to ServaRICA for 2-3x the cores, RAM and disk because current prices no longer justified their needs.

Root servers with uptime better than bigger cloud providers, though support is not instant.

Was switching from DigitalOcean but costs more than doubled, and only a locked-in price on one server keeps some business there.

Two outages in the first month that silently stopped networking for 15+ minutes.

Customer since 2022 with multiple servers and rarely any issues in Nuremberg.

Contabo had horrible drive latency of 70-120 ms, poor support, and the machine became unusable after two weeks so they sought a refund.

Enjoying RackNerd and finds the new control panel nice.

Tried Contabo and had a bad experience with unstable network and performance.

A server of four years just disappeared with no notification, reason or communication.

Contabo still has issues but upgraded its management platform to a much more modern one.

Had a server re-provisioned without warning when asking about an upgrade, with no apology or compensation.

Likes the netcup VPS, finds the CPU adequate and much better than a more expensive Hetzner VPS.

26 euro server reliably runs Nextcloud, Immich and more with no availability or speed issues.

Good experience with netcup and good deals during special holiday auctions.

Great RAM for the price but I/O bottlenecks on heavy database writes; fine for background automations.

Several VPSs over ten years without problems, and the few support contacts were excellent.

Server disappeared from the panel while the paid backup service stayed active and the domain showed another site.

Self-hosted GitLab with Hetzner object storage for registry and files works quite smoothly.

Reliable in their experience; when they tried to cancel their VPS XS, IONOS offered a 75% discount for staying another two years.

Large VPS plan handled a 1,000-person live streaming event and 24/7 streaming radio at max bandwidth without a single hiccup.

Runs 12 VPSes at Contabo and has had no high CPU load problems, with zero complaints.

Ubuntu 24.04 game servers run great with zero lag once UFW outbound ports are configured properly.

OVH provisioning via API worked beautifully, but fraud detection left their VPS stuck in provisioning for three days before cancelling.

New OVH VPS 2027 plan was a lot slower than earlier OVH VPSes and netcup, so they will not use it again.

Control panel broke so payment was not possible and tickets went unanswered.

A developer has run multi-purpose projects on a Hostinger KVM 2 VPS for over a year with little downtime, though they had to set CPU limits.

OVH's VPS 2027 plan in Strasbourg ran on 2014 Haswell CPUs and tested slow and terrible.

After two years and 20+ sites, Hostinger suspended their VPS after a malware incident with no human, no appeal and no support.

They have used an IONOS cloud VPS for 3 years and say it has never gone down or crashed. They find customer support only meh but the service itself very stable.

Monitored VPS with no complaints and only three minutes of downtime in two weeks.

Used Linode in the past and found them easy to do business with; plans a major app there.

Contabo at 6 dollars a month seems to work well.

Hetzner low-cost VPS are mostly sold out, with waits of months and scaling difficulty.

OVH monthly bill rose about 30 percent, so the poster moved demanding services to Hostinger.

Five years on Contabo: monthly fee doubled with no spec change, but support fixed an issue within hours.

OVH was fine for a year, then the AI boom basically tripled the monthly fee.

Fourteen years on Contabo, which got so bad in recent years the poster moved to netcup.

Contabo server frequently down, a six-hour outage with a status page showing no incidents, and a joke of a customer service.

Never had downtime on Hetzner and pays almost half of what they paid at Namecheap for much better hardware.

Uses Coolify on a Contabo VPS for many test projects and two production ones, calling the under 10 dollars a month a no brainer after being unhappy with Fly and Zeabur.

Contabo since 2017 for light use is fine; CPU steal is not shown but support moves you to another host free.

Server creation in the Cloud Panel failed 18 times in a row after two seconds while support remained completely unreachable from Peru.

Contabo is heavily overprovisioned.

VPS deleted two days before a written payment extension deadline and no backups were kept.

Contabo is cheapest with never an issue.

Their 20 euro server would cost 120 euros per month at the next upgrade tier after the price rise.

Their Hetzner VPS rose to about 25 euro a month and they could not rescale due to SSD size, and ARM64 machines in that datacenter were fully booked.

With 10 VPS already, found no new low-cost VPS available, nothing under 20 euros a month.

Calls Contabo historically horrendous and would rather pay 15 euros a month at Hetzner.

Has not noticed any downtime on their Hetzner VPS and guesses VMs migrate between hosts during maintenance.

Cost-optimized servers are sometimes out of stock so you must keep them running 24/7, but they are still good for web servers.

Upscaling from CPX11 to CPX21 now costs 37.49 dollars a month so they are moving everything away.

Managed Kubernetes on Scaleway turned out terrible compared to AWS, needing roughly a weekly support ticket and constant babysitting, with stability and scalability issues that lost some customers over twelve months.

Two servers at 89% average uptime over 18 months and 94% over the last three.

Servers on Hetzner with WireGuard, no issues and full control.

RS2000 G12 single-core performance swings between about 1100 and 1800, so considering a refund.

A dream for a personal self-managed project and very reliable.

VPS started segfaulting and throwing random errors suggesting CPU or RAM problems.

Used 13+ OVH Singapore machines; hardware failed repeatedly and support took hours.

Never had issues and always kindly helped on the phone.

Had a blocked-account issue with zero communication from Hetzner and is leaving.

They use IONOS VPS servers, which were great until recently when prices were raised and changed. They found customer service weak, as support did not know what Elementor was when asked on behalf of a client.

Account was deactivated about two hours after creating a server, without any explanation.

Very pleased with OVH as a VPS supplier: a mid-tier 8 GB plan used only 2-3 GB for more services than on Strato, with unlimited traffic.

They run an IONOS VPS plus the backup service for about 18 pounds a month and report never having had any issues.

Ran a Next.js app on a Hetzner VPS for a long time with a nightly recycle for memory leaks, and says it runs definitely faster than on Vercel.

Their CCX23 went from 39 to 101 dollars, a 150 percent increase they find unjustifiable.

Five days on netcup with major network issues every day and no answer to their ticket since day one.

Contabo boxes had the lowest uptime of any VPS provider they have used.

Keeping a CX22 at the old 5.39 euros a month.

Chose Contabo after DigitalOcean rejected their virtual card; hosts a client project there and has no complaints.

After a year on a budget Linux VPS, a same-spec Netcup server felt about ten times faster.

IONOS support and business practices are a bit annoying but nothing terrible.