After ten years, the price rose from 10.50 to 13 euros a month while server performance was poor.
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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.
29% Positive16% Mixed55% Negative
Cheap for the specs, and some customers run it for years without trouble.
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Customer reviews (361)
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Five years on Contabo: monthly fee doubled with no spec change, but support fixed an issue within hours.
VPS since 2019 with early issues fixed by support, then stress-free apart from a recent price increase.
Support chat gave copy-pasted answers and confirmed the annual discount was not recurring after a price increase.
Dissatisfied with big price increases and a poorly communicated multi-day outage, though it runs fine 99 percent of the time.
Contabo VPS 3 SSD price was raised to over 30 dollars a month, so the poster is leaving.
Price jumped almost 60 percent month over month without notice.
A Cyber Monday deal price was raised by 20 percent, which Contabo justified with ongoing investments.
Contabo VPS renewal price is almost double the new-buy price.
Increasingly dissatisfied over the last year and cancelled the server after a price increase.
Contabo declined in pricing and support over two years; a cancelled dedicated server was wrongly reported as deleted data.
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.