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.
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A score out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews, so a handful of glowing reviews can’t beat a product many people like.
Cheap for the specs, and some customers run it for years without trouble.
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Has used a Contabo VPS for four months with no issues, running Redis, FastAPI, Hono, Next.js and Celery workers for about 5 dollars a month versus 80 elsewhere.
Finds Contabo good value and flexible for both site and email hosting.
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.
Runs RAM-heavy quiet services on a 12GB Contabo VPS, noting shared CPU on the cheap RAM-heavy plans is real.
Three VPS have been generally fine despite one machine issue they had to diagnose themselves, and you get more than you pay for.
Great RAM for the price but I/O bottlenecks on heavy database writes; fine for background automations.
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.
Windows VPS in Singapore for algo trading has worked fine for about a year and is the cheapest of providers tried.
Great for a workload that needs no high uptime and cheaper than reputable hosts, but unsuitable for demanding use.
Gitea for a SaaS company runs on Contabo Singapore VPSs, cost effective with no network issues.
Performance is not amazing but the VPS work well and fit a price point.
Ran a cheap game-server VM on Contabo that worked fine but felt consumer grade, not for work use.
Years on Contabo: good service and cost effective though you manage network security yourself.
Several years on Contabo paying about $15/month for a solid VPS that runs 50 sites fine.
Got an EPYC host, says results depend on luck, support is good and it is the way for dirt-cheap VPS.
Their cheap Contabo VPS had few issues, support answered within hours and sometimes gave compensation.
Moved from netcup after bad experiences and is pretty happy with very light workloads.
Uses Contabo, whose specs for the price are unmatched despite plain dashboards.
Runs on Contabo, whose smallest VPS is 3 vCPU and 8GB RAM; rates them second best on price to performance and picked them for their South East Asia servers.
No issues, though they oversell more than Hetzner; really okay for the price.
Years of amazing service but too many issues in recent weeks; still uses it for the price and resources.
Unbeatable prices and fine support for personal use, but too many bandwidth issues for professional use.
Dedicated hardware is unbeatable for the price, but one server kept losing network and support could not fix it.
Contabo at 6 dollars a month seems to work well.
Chose Contabo after DigitalOcean rejected their virtual card; hosts a client project there and has no complaints.
They have used Contabo for 4 years across 5 different VPS and found it the cheapest option.
Contabo has great prices and reliable servers.
Recommends Contabo for good value for money and says it is improving on past problems.
Contabo was great on a Cyber Monday deal but a power outage hit the US data center in January.
Common questions about Contabo
What do customers say about Contabo?
Cheap for the specs, and some customers run it for years without trouble. Many others report outages, sometimes lasting days, slow or templated support, and slower real-world performance than advertised from overselling. Happier users tend to run side projects or non-critical services on it.
Is Contabo worth it?
Of the 211 reviews with a clear verdict, 29% are positive, 16% mixed and 55% negative. The praise mentioned most is reliable. The most common complaint is outages.
What do people like about Contabo?
The praise reviewers mention most: reliable (43 reviews), great value (37 reviews) and helpful support (16 reviews). For example: Five years that were pretty solid, though it depends on which node the VPS lands on and the CPU steal there.
What are the most common complaints about Contabo?
The complaints reviewers mention most: outages (63 reviews), poor support (61 reviews) and slow (41 reviews). For example: Server died and would not boot or reinstall; support fixed it with some magic but they would not trust Contabo.
What does the signal score of 67 mean?
It's how well reviewed Contabo is, out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews: a service needs plenty of them, compared with the most-reviewed services here, to reach the high 80s and 90s. It's worked out from reviews only, needs at least 5 of them, and updates as new ones come in.
What are the specs of Contabo?
Category: VPS hosting.
Where do these Contabo reviews come from?
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