Contabo - No setup fee for VPS atm + free storage upgrade
Seems like Contabo has no setup fee for their VPS, and other products due to Sysadmin week special in case anyone wanted to give them a try or wanted to get a vps from them: https://contabo.com/en/
I can also (e.g. for smallest vps) choose free storage upgrade (400GB SSD -> 600GB SSD, or 100GB NVME -> 150 GB NVME)
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Contabo was my very first VPS provider and they were so bad, they made me switch to dedicated servers completely. They made me think all VPS (including the ones from other providers) are all garbage because your neighbors steal all of your disk IO, bandwidth and CPU simultaneously. Didn’t touch any VPS again because I was afraid of them, until I stumbled across the free VMs from Oracle.
It was only at that moment I realized that VPSs actually able to deliver good performance, if you simply buy them from anywhere else other then Contabo haha.
That was a few years ago however. Not sure if their new VPS are still like that.
Rest assured, everything is still the same if not worse. Heavy overselling, crappy network and ~support.
What are some reliable VPS providers you would recommend based on current performance reviews?
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my very first vps was contabo with plesk
the performance was so bad i thought plesk was shit.
never used any of them ever again.
I bench YABS 24/7/365 unless it's a leap year.
My experience with them has been mixed, but I remembered some people here were using them, so perhaps for them this offer would be interesting. Right now, all my VPS are with ZAP Hosting (lifetime) and my dedi is with CloudCone (lifetime).
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Contabo is like your very first car after you get license to drive. It is 10+ years old Dacia Sandero. It drives and there is brakes. That's actually it. And you better do not expect radio, isolation from water in the sealing etc. Just drive until you get understanding about what you want from life.
Than you get a fckin hetzner and call it a day.
What's your cloudcone dedi lifetime deal? Is it still available?
It was a giveaway from a birthday special (2nd or 3rd bd?!)
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what was their setup fee on VPS before this promo?
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vps price
If you want a storage VPS (like in the title) then Servarica:
— Here's an example entry offer (ref). More space, less money, high reliability.
Note this is nearly a random pick — there are many others of all sizes and types (HDD, SATA, NVMe, hybrid). Browse through "Categories" to see the rest.
If you want performance, i.e. something like Contabo's VDS (dedicated resources), they also have ones:
— E.g. 2 dedicated AMD EPYC cores (ref), 8 GB RAM, etc.
People are buying those for prolonged heavy loads, however I don't have any, only storage.
There's also some promo currently. Try both CANADA_VDS_35 and CANADA_WILDBEAST_10 during checkout to see which works and which gives better discount.
Ranking of the ones I tried below (the ones I can remember), lower position always means worse
(I live in Germany, therefore this many German providers)
Honorable mentions, limited quantity per customer, hence no comparison possible
Never downtime, good performance
Good uptime
High performance good price but uptime depends on luck
Bad performance bad uptime but compensates with their price, wouldn’t really recommend
Never again, (probably) won’t get better
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Thanks for your review, dear 😊
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Tbh, I was pleasantly surprised, (few weeks in testing one of your VPS), the performance and network indeed suck ass, as other members have already mentioned frequently xD, but as long as the price is low, it perfectly fits the requirements for certain applications (for private use only). Definitely wouldn’t recommend it to other people but for a small group of people, they are great boxes 👍 .
Below average but better experience than some other providers haha.
Contabo is useless.
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Better buy the 6 bux VPS from Strato good performance, network is completely garbage from contabo
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Exactly also, especially don't use it business wise, very unprofessional company and support is not existing