Contabo Reviews

Been on a Cloud VPS 20 with them since early 2024. It hosts my Nextcloud, a Gitea instance, Uptime Kuma and a few Docker side projects. 12 GB of RAM for what they charge is still hard to beat anywhere I've looked. Know what you're buying though. The vCPUs are shared and you can see steal time in htop during European working hours, so anything CPU heavy runs noticeably slower than on my Hetzner box. Disk is fast, no complaints there. Uptime has been decent for me. Two unplanned outages so far, one about 40 minutes, plus a maintenance reboot announced with very little notice. Support tickets get answered but slowly and the first reply is usually a template, so I don't count on them for anything. The panel looks old but does what I need: reinstall, snapshots, rescue mode. I keep restic backups off the server anyway. For self hosting by someone who can manage Linux it's great value. I wouldn't put a client's shop on it.

Good for a month, then performance dropped until completely offline for three days with no support.

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

Contabo is very cheap but their VPS went down without notice and stayed down for two days.

Used Contabo for a couple of years; performance and support were really bad and the hosts were heavily over-provisioned.

Server was offline three days and no support channel replied.

Fine for development but outages take weeks to fix and support is unreachable.

After a Black Friday upgrade the new node performed badly; support admitted it and three weeks later still no fix.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Game-server VPS froze constantly with 1-10 second lags; benchmarks showed throttled CPU and support sent generic replies.

VPS went offline for a week and a ticket got no reply until they phoned the German support number.

Paid for Sydney but got Singapore routing, wildly variable speeds and support insisting otherwise.

Contabo VPS dropped off the network every two hours; another node was taking the IP and support asked for the root password.

Dedicated server was down over 106 hours with no resolution or technical update, and the status page showed nothing.

Says Contabo took down their stuff without notice for maintenance and support was even worse, so they switched to Vultr.

Contabo VPS support is slow and had downtime, so the poster is hesitant to use it as primary host.

Worst support ever and the EU location was fully down for days several times; only the St Louis location is stable.

Support was horrible with unannounced maintenance and servers down for many days.

Contabo is slow with old hardware and poor support.

Left Contabo after a two-week outage that was communicated only after it was resolved.

Says Contabo's real-world performance does not match the paper specs and support is close to non-existent.

IPv6 connectivity issues across 10 rented servers and dodgy support ended Contabo as their first choice.

Four years in, the last straw after over-provisioning, uptime issues and unannounced reboots.

Contabo had 20-30% CPU steal, bad support and a reactivation fee after they deactivated the server.

VPS took 24 hours to provision and support answered only after they asked for a refund.

Calls Contabo unreliable with disconnecting chat support, reactivation fees and an unrequested plan upgrade.

A dedicated server goes down every 2-3 months with days-long tickets and a dashboard with no IPMI.

A Contabo VPS could not receive HTTP traffic and repeated support contacts did not solve it, so they shut it down and tried Hetzner.

Could not SSH in production and support insisted the server was working, forcing a full reinstall.

Was satisfied at first but got locked out over a phishing claim and had to pay 41.40 euros to regain access.

Stable for six months then 48-plus hours of downtime twice in three days with non-existent support.

Support chat gave copy-pasted answers and confirmed the annual discount was not recurring after a price increase.

After an Easter upgrade, nothing but problems and DNS would not resolve across reinstalls.