Contabo Reviews

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

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

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

Nearly ten years that generally went well with some outages, the latest the longest.

Server was offline three days and no support channel replied.

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

Three new VPSs had week-long outages; an angry email brought a quick reply and node moves that fixed it.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

First week mostly offline, then smooth for almost two years.

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

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

Some servers ran 7+ years fine while others had 24-hour stops several times a year and one lost almost a day.

A week with a Contabo VPS: unstable, hard to recover and failing VNC access, then a pro-rata refund.

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

Years-long customer who has had on-and-off connectivity issues since November; moving the server did not fix it.

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.

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

A Contabo VPS since 2021 with only one cooling-related outage, though the Hetzner interface is better.

Several instances went offline for full weeks; a refund threat got a reply within the hour and a fix.

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

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

An unplanned maintenance outage lasted 12 hours and counting, forcing them to move to another VPS.

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

Dissatisfied with big price increases and a poorly communicated multi-day outage, though it runs fine 99 percent of the time.

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

First issue in two years was a two-day downtime, which is not acceptable for them.

Servers were rate limited and locked for DDoS within a week, which never happened at previous hosts.

Support ghosted them for three weeks while their server was apparently cloned with the same IP and MAC, and Contabo broke its own SLA.

Two years in, long unexpected downtime, weak support and no compensation.

Odd short restarts, likely overloaded hosts, but support is pretty useful.

Contabo is cheap but suffers hours-long planned outages; their machine stayed offline for 12 hours straight.

After many good years, a new plan's server vanishes every hour for weeks and support cannot be reached.

Two years without downtime, then restarts every few hours and finally unreachable.

Server died and would not boot or reinstall; support fixed it with some magic but they would not trust Contabo.

48+ hours of downtime with tickets and phone unanswered.

Support is virtually non-existent and a server outage lasted 44 hours with only snarky emails, so they restored a backup elsewhere.

Contabo is cheap but messy: slow support, random shutdowns and restarts, and CPU specs changing.

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

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

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

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

VPS and trading terminal were down for several days in 2024, so they cancelled immediately.

Contabo was great on a Cyber Monday deal but a power outage hit the US data center in January.

Low-end Contabo VPS has been down for 3+ days again, considering Hetzner.

Five years on Contabo and this year has been a disaster.

Stopped using Contabo because quality was below expectations and moved clients needing better uptime to Hetzner.

VPS stopped for two days from a host-node problem with no ETA and unanswered messages.

Server deleted after one failed auto-payment with no reminder, taking the website and data offline.

VPS down for many hours of unplanned maintenance with nothing on the status page and no notification sent.

After four years, crashes throughout the day in Nuremberg led to a switch.

Contabo server down with a vague maintenance excuse; tells people to avoid it.

Contabo VPS keeps randomly shutting down.

Multiple 24-hour-plus outages in a month, and support praised its own quick resolution.

Under three months in: more outages and network problems, a horrible control panel and billing that held 15 USD.

Great specs and loading speed but the server goes down every two to three days without notification.

Years without trouble but one bad month of slowness and random drops fixed after support relocated the VPS.

After a VPS was moved from Nuremberg to Lauterburg it became unreachable several times with very high load.

A client's VM was down two days for unplanned maintenance that the status page never mentioned and support ignored contact.

Client sites ran fine for a few months then had regular unannounced downtime, server relocation and poor support.

Cheap but weekly problems and support that can take two days to answer while VPS or VDS are down.

Reports the worst customer support, frequent networking problems and slow replies; moved to OVH.

After 2.5 quiet years, outages of several hours in January and over 30 hours in March, with a ticket answered a week later.

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

Two weeks of downtime, a very slow VPS, vague support and a refused refund forced a bank dispute.

Two-plus years in and moving away because of a lot of unplanned maintenance that hurts production.

VPS shut down without warning and emails to support went unanswered for days.

VPS unreachable for a full day with nothing on the status site; support said the VPS cluster was overloaded.

Services go down once or twice a year for hours, but the prices are low enough to keep paying.

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