Good for a month, then performance dropped until completely offline for three days with no support.
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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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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.
UK server performance was mostly okay but too slow for rclone mounts, with a 200 Mbit/s cap.
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.
Great RAM for the price but I/O bottlenecks on heavy database writes; fine for background automations.
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.
Long-time Contabo Singapore VPS with no issues except bandwidth that never reaches 500 Mbps.
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.
German DC VPS has shocking performance and high CPU steal while a UK one works fine.
Older VPS worked flawlessly for years but a new deal VPS takes minutes to reboot and 10 seconds to log in.
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.