Contabo Review

Contabo

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Contabo in its own words

German server provider | NVMe VPS from €5.99, $8.49 or £6.99 a month | Data Centers in the EU, US, UK, Singapore, Japan, and Australia | 20+ years of experience | 160K+ happy customers | #cloud #hosting #infrastructure

Contabo was founded as a VPS provider in 2003.
It is headquartered in Germany.
It offers Web, Dedicated and VPS hosting products.

It has datacenters in:
  • Australia
  • Germany
  • India
  • Japan
  • Singapore
  • United Kingdom
  • United States

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Contabo News

Providers share news about their company, their products, their features and their promotions on VPSBenchmarks. See all announcements on the Provider News page.

This is the most recent news from Contabo.

Contabo, a global cloud computing provider known for their VPS products with low prices, have their biggest sale of the year. The annual Black Friday has started today, November 29, 2024. During their special promotion, they offer big lifetime discounts and extras on all products:

New daily deals will be announced on the dedicated page Contabo Black Friday Sale every day through December 2 (Cyber Monday) –... (continued)


Contabo VPS Features

Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.

Feature Value Comment
Hourly Billing  No
DDOS Protection  Yes
Backups  Yes

VPS snapshots are available for free.

Control Panel  custom
SSH Keys Setup  Yes
Total Number of Datacenters  12
Number of Datacenter Continents  4
Monitoring Charts  No

No chart.

Admin REST API  Yes
Upgrade VPS from admin console  Yes
Mobile Friendly UI  No
Reverse DNS  Yes
Accepted Forms of Payment  Credit cards, Paypal, bank transfers, Skrilla
Hidden CPU Model  No
Affiliate Program  Yes
IPv6 support  No
Firewall  No
Shelving  No
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Pros and Cons

Strengths

  • Modern EPYC CPUs in all VDS servers.

Weaknesses

  • Setup fee on all new instances.
  • Management UI has the minimum set of features.
  • Location fee on all locations other than Germany.

Contabo Extra Services

In addition to features included in VPS plans, Contabo also sells the services marked green in the following table:

Backups   Block storage Object storage   Load balancer
Floating IP addresses   Team Management Managed databases Serverless
DDoS protection   Kubernetes GPU instances Private network

VPS Instance Provisioning Time

For each Contabo VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server from the moment it was ordered to the moment it accepted SSH connections.

See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.

Average Provisioning Time Min Provisioning Time Max Provisioning Time Number of VPS Samples
20279s 120s 219600s 11

Control Panel Screenshots


Cloud Storage Prices

For a comparison of storage features and prices from all providers, please check the Cloud Storage Prices page.

Storage Type Price / GB / month Description Restriction
Object 0.010€ S3-compatibility and built-in redundancy. No charges for data transfer and no long-term commitments.
Prices valid for Europe and USA. Higher prices apply to Asia.

Contabo object storage
Minimum 250GB. Sold in 250GB slices (2.49€ / 250GB).

Network Bandwidth Prices

These are the network bandwidth prices charged by Contabo for outbound transfers from VPS to the internet.

For a comparison of bandwidth prices from all providers, go to the Network Bandwitdh Prices page.

Description Price / GB
Pricing model: Allowance Then Throttled (the provider gives a free bandwidth allowance with each server. Bandwidth above the free allowance is throttled.)
Free allowance: 32 TB / month (for a 2 core 4GB instance or closest available)
Transfer pool: no
Contabo networking
This provider does not charge for bandwidth.

Contabo Instance Types and Plans

How fast are Contabo servers?
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All Contabo instance types

Note: All VPS prices reported at VPSBenchmarks are for one month without any further commitment and before promotions unless noted otherwise. The IPv4 charge is added to the VPS monthly price in case the provider doesn't include it by default.

Plan Number of CPU cores RAM Storage Monthly Price
Family:
Cloud VDS
Instance Type:
VDS

Instantly deploy cloud virtual machines with dedicated RAM, CPU and 100% enterprise NVMe storage.

Cloud VDS S NVMe 3 24.0GB 180GB 42.99€ / month ($47.29 / month)
Cloud VDS M NVMe 4 32.0GB 240GB 55.99€ / month ($61.59 / month)
Cloud VDS L NVMe 6 48.0GB 360GB 79.99€ / month ($87.99 / month)
Cloud VDS XL NVMe 8 64.0GB 480GB 102.99€ / month ($113.29 / month)
Family:
Cloud VPS
Instance Type:
VPS

High quality virtual private servers at a value (featuring AMD EPYC™ 7282 processors, NVMeSSDs, and a truckload of RAM and traffic).

Cloud VPS 1 4 6.0GB 100GB 4.50€ / month ($4.95 / month)
Cloud VPS 2 6 16.0GB 200GB 9.50€ / month ($10.45 / month)
Cloud VPS 3 8 24.0GB 300GB 14.00€ / month ($15.40 / month)
Cloud VPS 6 24 120.0GB 600GB 61.50€ / month ($67.65 / month)
Instance Type:
Other

No description

Provider page for instance type: /hosters/contabo
VDS M Singapore (Off rankings) 4 32.0GB 240GB 64.99€ / month ($71.49 / month)

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