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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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.
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?
360 are quotes from Reddit, each linked to the original. 1 was written by customers here. Customer reviews are checked for spam before they appear. Every review, written here or quoted, is read as positive, mixed or negative.