UK server performance was mostly okay but too slow for rclone mounts, with a 200 Mbit/s cap.
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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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Great RAM for the price but I/O bottlenecks on heavy database writes; fine for background automations.
Long-time Contabo Singapore VPS with no issues except bandwidth that never reaches 500 Mbps.
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.
In the first month at Contabo, performance is not great but fine for now.
Years without trouble but one bad month of slowness and random drops fixed after support relocated the VPS.
Legacy VPS S ran under 1 Mbps; support's fix failed and only upgrading to VPS 2 solved it for 5 euros more.
Contabo has decent speeds and fast NVMe IO, but uploading a file to the node was super slow.
Testing a Contabo VPS: performance fluctuates a lot and network speed is average, though no downtime so far.
Uptime is usually good but performance is very unstable with high CPU steal from overselling and capped disks, and cheaper plans have slow connections.
Across 300 VPS they see slow support, an unresponsive management app and noticeable overload on CPU-heavy tasks, but low prices.
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.