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Datacenter Countries

The selected providers have datacenters in the following countries.

Contabo SalmonCloud
Australia
Germany
India
Japan
Singapore
United Kingdom
United States
Hong Kong
United States

Features and Usability

Features not included in the VPS price in plans tested at vpsbenchmarks.com will be marked as missing.

Contabo SalmonCloud
Hourly Billing  No No
DDOS Protection  Yes No
Backups  Yes No
Control Panel  custom WHMCS, VirtFusion
SSH Keys Setup  Yes Yes
Total Number of Datacenters  12 2
Number of Datacenter Continents  4 2
Monitoring Charts  No Yes
Admin REST API  Yes No
Upgrade VPS from admin console  Yes No
Mobile Friendly UI  No Yes
Reverse DNS  Yes Yes
Accepted Forms of Payment  Credit cards, Paypal, bank transfers, Skrilla Stripe (credit/debit cards), Paypal, cryptocurrencies
Hidden CPU Model  No No
Affiliate Program  Yes Yes
IPv6 support  No Yes
Firewall  No No
Shelving  No No

Extra Services

Those services are offered by providers independently of their cloud servers.

Contabo SalmonCloud
Backups  -  Instance backups or snapshots
Block storage  -  Allocate storage volumes independently of instances and attach them to instances of your choice
Object storage  -  Data storage for objects, individual files with API access
Load balancer  -  Distribute traffic across set of instances
Floating IP addresses  -  Allocate IP addresses independently of instances and attach them to instances of your choice
Team Management  -  Management of users who are authorized to handle resources in your account
Managed databases  -  Managed databases such as MySQL, Postgresql, Aurora, ...
Serverless  -  Deploy code as functions and let the provider manage where the code runs
DDoS protection  -  Distributed Denial of Service protection
Kubernetes  -  Management of Docker containers
GPU instances  -  GPU instances to run your AI workload
Private network  -  Use private IP addresses to communicate between your own instances at this provider

Stengths & Weaknesses

Strengths Weaknesses
Contabo
  • Modern EPYC CPUs in all VDS servers.
  • Setup fee on all new instances.
  • Management UI has the minimum set of features.
  • Location fee on all locations other than Germany.
SalmonCloud

Performance Comparisons

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