Contabo - No setup fee for VPS atm + free storage upgrade

Ympker · July 29

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)

lowendspiritxdax · July 29

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.

legendary · July 29

@lowendspiritxdax said: new VPS are still like that.

Rest assured, everything is still the same if not worse. Heavy overselling, crappy network and ~support.

ruedislik · July 29

@lowendspiritxdax said:
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 snake game 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.

What are some reliable VPS providers you would recommend based on current performance reviews?

vyas · July 29

@legendary said:

@lowendspiritxdax said: new VPS are still like that.

Rest assured, everything is still the same if not worse. Heavy overselling, crappy network and ~support.

You never forget your first (time)

cybertech · July 29

@lowendspiritxdax said:
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.

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.

Ympker · July 29

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).

legendary · July 29

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.

localhost · July 29

@Ympker said:
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).

What's your cloudcone dedi lifetime deal? Is it still available?

Ympker · July 29

@localhost said:

@Ympker said:
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).

What's your cloudcone dedi lifetime deal? Is it still available?

It was a giveaway from a birthday special (2nd or 3rd bd?!)

c1vhosting · July 29

what was their setup fee on VPS before this promo?

FatGrizzly · July 29

@c1vhosting said:
what was their setup fee on VPS before this promo?

vps price

DataRecovery · July 29

@ruedislik said:
What are some reliable VPS providers you would recommend based on current performance reviews?

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.

lowendspiritxdax · July 29

@ruedislik said:

@lowendspiritxdax said:
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 snake game 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.

What are some reliable VPS providers you would recommend based on current performance reviews?

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

Oracle Cloud: reliable, huge and free VMs, limited per customer though, their paid VPS are expensive
MicroLXC: didn’t use them for long, but solid until now, perfect as a exit node or for micro applications
Aeza.net: their 4gb Sweden plan for 1€ is really good but limited 1 per customer, everything else is too expensive for me, didn’t try, wouldn’t try

Never downtime, good performance

Hetzner Cloud: rock solid, price slightly higher but 100% worth
Strato: has gotten better over the years, price performance uptime tick all boxes, cheaper version of Ionos with more disk-space
Ionos: reliable over many years, never disappointed me, 1€ VPS cheap, other expensive
Misaka.io: 130ms ping 0 packet loss from Berlin to China for 10€

Good uptime

Netcup: decent, usable, more performance would be nice though
Cloudie.sh: affordable American IXP VPS, especially their new 3-in-1 package, if you are into really into BGP

High performance good price but uptime depends on luck

Hostbrr: switched away after many DDoS, only one storage VPS left (5€ 6TB) which is working excellently, high performance high uptime, as long as they don’t get DDoS’ed, they are insanely good since they use Hetzner infrastructure
HT-Hosting.de: bad uptime but high performance, keeping one with 16GB zen4 5Gbps unlimited for 5€, if they fix their issues it’s a gem

Bad performance bad uptime but compensates with their price, wouldn’t really recommend

Prepaid-host.com: 24GB zen3 9€ crappy disk IO due to central ceph cluster instead of local NVMe, low bandwidth, left them due to their frequent downtime, would maybe reconsider if they fix their uptime and when I don’t need a fast disk, price solid
C1V: the one we all love ❤️, cheap performance, cheap network, cheap price
iHostART: no DCMA until caught, slow af, gave it away, price ok, wouldn’t recommend unless you really need the no DCMA, wouldn’t use again

Never again, (probably) won’t get better

Contabo lol: didn’t experience real downtime but the throttle was really horrible, would rather take something with occasional downtime but good performance then Contabo. Every time I tried to access any of my services hosted on their VPS it was just painfully slow, not endurable, wont use them even if it’s for free
Dashserv/Realtoxmedia: meh, mediocre, wasn’t satisfied, don’t excel in any category, no reason to choose them over anything listed above, don’t see any future potential
Caasify: Their UI is horrible, unstructured and full of bugs. During checkout they charged me 3 times for one top up (my first 10 attempts failed because of their unstructured interface, first time users using their mobile website will INEVITABLY press the wrong buttons and fail their payment multiple times). The one successful payment got charged from my card immediately, got added to my balance immediately, ok. BUT: 2 times out of the other multiple failures still got charged from my creditcard, long AFTER the failed payment attempts. Was literally getting one credit card notification every hour, making me think someone was abusing my card, until I saw the name caasify and checked my caasify account, where my balance increased by x amount each time. VPS also took a long time to fully provision, even though they claim everything is “automated” through direct API integration with the respective provider.

Summerhost warning!

Evoshosting: 24GB zen4 (7950X3D) 10Gbps unlimited for 5€ lol, one month left until summer holidays are over, let’s see how long it lasts, if they stay, it’s one of the best deals I have seen in my life, after the always free 24GB armv8, even better than the 24GB zen4 anniversary deal from Hostbrr

c1vhosting · July 29

@lowendspiritxdax said:

@ruedislik said:

@lowendspiritxdax said:
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 snake game 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.

What are some reliable VPS providers you would recommend based on current performance reviews?

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

Oracle Cloud: reliable, huge and free VMs, limited per customer though, their paid VPS are expensive

MicroLXC: didn’t use them for long, but solid until now, perfect as a exit node or for micro applications

Aeza.net: their 4gb Sweden plan for 1€ is really good but limited 1 per customer, everything else is too expensive for me, didn’t try, wouldn’t try

Never downtime, good performance

Hetzner Cloud: rock solid, price slightly higher but 100% worth

Strato: has gotten better over the years, price performance uptime tick all boxes, cheaper version of Ionos with more disk-space

Ionos: reliable over many years, never disappointed me, 1€ VPS cheap, other expensive

Misaka.io: 130ms ping 0 packet loss from Berlin to China for 10€

Good uptime

Netcup: decent, usable, more performance would be nice though

Cloudie.sh: affordable American IXP VPS, especially their new 3-in-1 package, if you are into really into BGP

High performance good price but uptime depends on luck

Hostbrr: switched away after many DDoS, only one storage VPS left (5€ 6TB) which is working excellently, high performance high uptime, as long as they don’t get DDoS’ed, they are insanely good since they use Hetzner infrastructure

HT-Hosting.de: bad uptime but high performance, keeping one with 16GB zen4 5Gbps unlimited for 5€, if they fix their issues it’s a gem

Bad performance bad uptime but compensates with their price, wouldn’t really recommend

Prepaid-host.com: 24GB zen3 9€ crappy disk IO due to central ceph cluster instead of local NVMe, low bandwidth, left them due to their frequent downtime, would maybe reconsider if they fix their uptime and when I don’t need a fast disk, price solid

C1V: the one we all love ❤️, cheap performance, cheap network, cheap price

iHostART: no DCMA until caught, slow af, gave it away, price ok, wouldn’t recommend unless you really need the no DCMA, wouldn’t use again

Never again, (probably) won’t get better

Contabo lol: didn’t experience real downtime but the throttle was really horrible, would rather take something with occasional downtime but good performance then Contabo. Every time I tried to access any of my services hosted on their VPS it was just painfully slow, not endurable, wont use them even if it’s for free

Dashserv/Realtoxmedia: meh, mediocre, wasn’t satisfied, don’t excel in any category, no reason to choose them over anything listed above, don’t see any future potential

Caasify: Their UI is horrible, unstructured and full of bugs. During checkout they charged me 3 times for one top up (my first 10 attempts failed because of their unstructured interface, first time users using their mobile website will INEVITABLY press the wrong buttons and fail their payment multiple times). The one successful payment got charged from my card immediately, got added to my balance immediately, ok. BUT: 2 times out of the other multiple failures still got charged from my creditcard, long AFTER the failed payment attempts. Was literally getting one credit card notification every hour, making me think someone was abusing my card, until I saw the name caasify and checked my caasify account, where my balance increased by x amount each time. VPS also took a long time to fully provision, even though they claim everything is “automated” through direct API integration with the respective provider.

Summerhost warning!

Evoshosting: 24GB zen4 (7950X3D) 10Gbps unlimited for 5€ lol, one month left until summer holidays are over, let’s see how long it lasts, if they stay, it’s one of the best deals I have seen in my life, after the always free 24GB armv8, even better than the 24GB zen4 anniversary deal from Hostbrr

Thanks for your review, dear 😊

lowendspiritxdax · July 29

@c1vhosting said:
Thanks for your review, dear 😊

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.

Amadex · July 29

Contabo is useless.

WhiteRoseG · July 29

Better buy the 6 bux VPS from Strato good performance, network is completely garbage from contabo

AuroraZero · July 29

Clowntabo

WhiteRoseG · July 29

@AuroraZero said:

Clowntabo

Exactly also, especially don't use it business wise, very unprofessional company and support is not existing

Contabo - No setup fee for VPS atm + free storage upgrade

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