Contabo Reviews

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.

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

Contabo had packet loss and network issues and overloaded machines; moved everything to Hetzner.

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

Moved from Contabo to Netcup at the same price and found Netcup performance far better; calls Contabo massively oversold.

After ten years, the price rose from 10.50 to 13 euros a month while server performance was poor.

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

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

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

Servers were so slow that a load a $20 droplet handled well struggled on Contabo.

Used Contabo for a few months and says performance explains the price because hardware is oversold.

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

Contabo is slow with old hardware and poor support.

Calls Contabo's performance very poor, though fine for basic web hosting.

Speeds capped near 200 Mbps and a month is charged before the contract ends, so they will not return.

Tried Contabo; the advertised specs were impressive but real performance was poor, so they stopped using it.

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

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.

App fine locally and on other clouds but CPU usage is through the roof on the Contabo server.

Attracted by the price but performance turned out extremely slow.

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

Performance started well but turned into endless issues and long downtimes, with high idle CPU and RAM usage.

Paid about 450 USD yearly with cPanel; the website's load times were extremely slow.

Worked well for months, then the VPS started randomly crashing with serious performance issues.

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

Used Contabo before and would not recommend it: performance is really bad and unstable.

Moved off Contabo because performance on four VPS 1 servers degraded significantly over a month.

Says Contabo VPSs are really bad and overload hosts; moved to bare metal without issues.

Confirms throttling before the 32 TB cap and says nodes are oversold and unstable.

Contabo is heavily overprovisioned.

Says CPU steal is so high that basic Node.js libraries become unusable.

Switching away from Contabo because CPU steal sits around 50% much of the time and fluctuates badly.

They say Contabo heavily overbooks its service and they see quite a lot of CPU steal on their VPS.

Five years on Contabo but the server is unusable and support has not answered for two days.

Servers were slow enough that whoami took 30 seconds and support took three days to reply.

Benchmarks put Contabo last on disk speed and single-core performance versus Crunchbits, Hetzner and Netcup.

After four years on VPS L and XL, performance dropped dramatically until support moved one server to a less loaded host.

Second server had terrible disk performance that support only briefly improved, so they moved to Hetzner.

Top-tier VPS slow for eight days, SSH unusable and support emails unanswered.

Two years on Contabo saw lost search ranking and monthly shutdowns, so they moved to Hostinger.

Contabo EPYC VPS was slow as heck for a game server even with two players on 16GB RAM.

A VPS3 regularly hit 100 percent CPU and went offline with one low-traffic site, while the same setup on Hetzner used 1-2 percent.

Cannot hold a socket connection for a minute on a $7 VPS; other providers have much better network speeds.

Only 79 MB/s and constant crashes within days, so cancelled.

Heavy CPU steal around 60% and support claimed the VPS was at 100% when it was rarely over 20.

Dusseldorf box gets about a quarter of a CPU in the evening, throttling encrypted transfers.

Used to be decent but now slow SSD and network make the server overload with moderate traffic.

Got poor performance on Contabo, support did not reply in 24 hours and a refund was refused because it was a business account.

Moved from Vultr; a 6-CPU Contabo plan bogs down on simple SQL queries where Vultr's 2 CPU did not hit 50%.

Says Contabo never delivers what is promised and suggests buying a dedicated server when the VPS is too slow.

Packet loss and high latency every evening and support found no solution for 10 days.

After two years the VPSs go down weekly, one about every eight hours, with CPU steal at 50-80%.

Frequent lag spikes where the VPS freezes for a minute with normal resource usage, later unresponsive for hours.

They tried Contabo for game servers and found performance unpredictable, with Hetzner ending up a lot better.

Left Contabo years ago because overprovisioning made the VPS lag unbearably, and moved to Hetzner.

Large rsync transfers slowed after the same few seconds each time, suggesting connection throttling.

Server became very slow over recent months and was unreachable several times.

Bandwidth seems arbitrarily rationed so bandwidth-heavy services now have reliability issues.

Nextcloud in Docker on a Singapore VPS was unusable, with click load times measured in minutes.

A 4-vCore 6GB Contabo plan was slower than an IONOS 2-vCore 4GB VPS.

Used Contabo for three to four years when starting self-hosting and found it very slow.

Observed repeated CPU stealing and weeks-long ticket responses, with no refund for downtime.

Servers overloaded for days; plans advertise multiple CPUs but deliver roughly one.

Contabo overprovisions and moved a VPS to another host without its virtual disk, denying the problem for a week.

Got a Contabo VM that randomly became so slow that running ls took ten seconds.

Left a completely overprovisioned Contabo that delivered at best 300 Mbit for 8 euros a month.