Contabo Review - VPS M SSD

TarZZ92

They must like me lol, none of that e5 crap

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 45
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz
stepping : 7
microcode : 0x1
cpu MHz : 3200.256

Ympker

@TarZZ92 said:
They must like me lol, none of that e5 crap

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 45
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz
stepping : 7
microcode : 0x1
cpu MHz : 3200.256

Could be that contabo.com offers different cpu For contabo.de cpu is acctually named.

TarZZ92

am just installing windows on it now. will give a windows geekbench soon

TarZZ92

sorry for delay here it is: https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/2043615

not very impressive at all. some major overselling me thinks (On cpu side) but it still performs okay.

willie

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Ympker

Update!:

New Benchmark of Contabo SSD XL (seperate thread to allow for easier finding): https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/122471/contabo-vps-ssd-xl-benchmarks

Contabo changed their "UNLIMITED TRAFFIC" policy. VPS with 100 Mbit/s are never throttled and 1 Gbit/s are throttled to 100 Mbit/s if they use more than 100 Mbit/s on avg more than 9 days in a row. This is about ~15 TB per 9 days. You will not so easily reach that limit.

blackjack4494

@Ympker said:
Update!:

New Benchmark of Contabo SSD XL (seperate thread to allow for easier finding): https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/122471/contabo-vps-ssd-xl-benchmarks

Contabo changed their "UNLIMITED TRAFFIC" policy. VPS with 100 Mbit/s are never throttled and 1 Gbit/s are throttled to 100 Mbit/s if they use more than 100 Mbit/s on avg more than 9 days in a row. This is about ~15 TB per 9 days. You will not so easily reach that limit.

well. depending on the person. just imagine @nekki collecting more panda koala and unicorn porn!!

Ympker

@blackjack4494 said:

@Ympker said:
Update!:

New Benchmark of Contabo SSD XL (seperate thread to allow for easier finding): https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/122471/contabo-vps-ssd-xl-benchmarks

Contabo changed their "UNLIMITED TRAFFIC" policy. VPS with 100 Mbit/s are never throttled and 1 Gbit/s are throttled to 100 Mbit/s if they use more than 100 Mbit/s on avg more than 9 days in a row. This is about ~15 TB per 9 days. You will not so easily reach that limit.

well. depending on the person. just imagine @nekki collecting more panda koala and unicorn porn!!

Well @nekki is a mystery for itself.

Hostlovin

@Ympker Hows the uptime on your VPS?

Ympker

@Hostlovin said:
@Ympker Hows the uptime on your VPS?

This one I bought today so no uptime to really schedule. You can check their status pages for previous shutdowns.

comeback

VPS L

nixbench v0.6.2 - https://github.com/jgillich/nixbench

cpu

Sha256 (1x) : 87.13 MB/s
Gzip (1x) : 91.39 MB/s
AES (1x) : 387.70 MB/s

Sha256 (4x) : 280.90 MB/s
Gzip (4x) : 323.70 MB/s
AES (4x) : 810.56 MB/s

disk

1. run : 72 MB/s
2. run : 75 MB/s
3. run : 74 MB/s
4. run : 76 MB/s
5. run : 75 MB/s
   Average : 74 MB/s

geekbench

Single-Core Score : 1762
Multi-Core Score : 4725
Result URL : https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/3746738

host

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OS : linux

Platform : centos 7.3.1611

CPU : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz

Cores : 4

Clock : 2099 Mhz

RAM : 13869 MB

net

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CDN : 11.74 MB/s

Amsterdam, The Netherlands : 10.98 MB/s

Dallas, USA : 9.12 MB/s

Frankfurt, Germany : 4.97 MB/s

Hong Kong, China : 4.95 MB/s

London, United Kingdoms : 10.79 MB/s

Melbourne, Australia : 7.30 MB/s

Oslo, Norway : 9.88 MB/s

Paris, France : 9.80 MB/s

Queretaro Mexico : 8.60 MB/s

San Jose, USA : 8.51 MB/s

Sao Paulo, Brazil : Failed

Seoul, Korea : 7.34 MB/s

Singapore, Singapore : 8.11 MB/s

Tokyo, Japan : 5.94 MB/s

Toronto, Canada : 7.90 MB/s

Washington, USA : 9.98 MB/s

Hostlovin

Looks pretty decent TBH ( for price ), if uptime is good, it would be a great purchase , they only offer 95 % uptime guarantee tho , thats pretty scary

Ympker

@Hostlovin said:
Looks pretty decent TBH ( for price ), if uptime is good, it would be a great purchase , they only offer 95 % uptime guarantee tho , thats pretty scary

Yeah the pricing and quality (hw, specs, network) are quite tempting. The SLA on the other hand...

SLA level of 95 % uptime/availability gives the following periods of potential downtime/unavailability:

Daily: 1h 12m 0.0s
Weekly: 8h 24m 0.0s
Monthly: 1d 12h 31m 27.3s
Yearly: 18d 6h 17m 27.6s

However there are still many tasks/projects that should be totally fine with that SLA. Afterall it is unlikely that the specified downtime happens all at once.

Pilovali

Does anybody know if their anti-DDoS is any good?
https://contabo.com/?show=ddos_protection

I'm using Contabo for a few months, and they are pretty cool imo. I'm just a bit worried about the anti-DDoS. They don't want to give any explaination of it, even when I call them.

Kevinjoa

@Pilovali said:
Does anybody know if their anti-DDoS is any good?
https://contabo.com/?show=ddos_protection

I'm using Contabo for a few months, and they are pretty cool imo. I'm just a bit worried about the anti-DDoS. They don't want to give any explaination of it, even when I call them.

Basically it's nullroute. And yeah you should be worried about ddos because they can cancel your contract, contabo telling the incoming ddos is impacting their network.

Pilovali

@Kevinjoa said:

@Pilovali said:
Does anybody know if their anti-DDoS is any good?
https://contabo.com/?show=ddos_protection

I'm using Contabo for a few months, and they are pretty cool imo. I'm just a bit worried about the anti-DDoS. They don't want to give any explaination of it, even when I call them.

Basically it's nullroute. And yeah you should be worried about ddos because they can cancel your contract, contabo telling the incoming ddos is impacting their network.

They told me that they aren't going to null route it. They have "protection".

Ympker

@Pilovali said:

@Kevinjoa said:

@Pilovali said:
Does anybody know if their anti-DDoS is any good?
https://contabo.com/?show=ddos_protection

I'm using Contabo for a few months, and they are pretty cool imo. I'm just a bit worried about the anti-DDoS. They don't want to give any explaination of it, even when I call them.

Basically it's nullroute. And yeah you should be worried about ddos because they can cancel your contract, contabo telling the incoming ddos is impacting their network.

They told me that they aren't going to null route it. They have "protection".

Same when I phoned them. They said they no longer null route.

Naxid

Does somebody knows something about the cpu usage? Don't want to burst it 24/7 but are bursts allowed ?

Ympker

@Naxid said:
Does somebody knows something about the cpu usage? Don't want to burst it 24/7 but are bursts allowed ?

Contacted their support. You are allowed to fully use them and ofc also burst. If you are continuously running at 100% you may encounter performance issues as cores are still ( virtual)shared.

deer76

I am going to test/review soon a Contabo box similar to this one; I expect it to be similar to the one I reviewed from Netcup.

edfox

VPS M: https://serverscope.io/trials/m0x0

VPS M SSD: https://serverscope.io/trials/r9Km

deer76

@edfox thanks for the links, I am glad I will be using a Contabo box soon. Sorry for the off-topic, but those stats definitely makes me conclude that the SSD in my Netcup review is not a real one

edfox

Also if anybody wants me to take any tests i have an idling contabo VPS M box until 17 May or so

Master_Bo

I had a VPS-M (4Gb RAM) at Contabo (February 2013 - August 2016). I'd say the service was quite good. I left that hosting since I just didn't need that exact VPS any more. But today, I think, I'd keep that VPS, given the same situation.

Apart from several short-term packet loss conditions, everything was quite smooth and nice. I used support by email - quite quick and useful.

deer76

@Master_Bo said:
Apart from several short-term packet loss conditions, everything was quite smooth and nice. I used support by email - quite quick and useful.

Yes, I have the same experience so far. I asked to change the order after a few hours and it was smooth and friendly.

@edfox said:
Also if anybody wants me to take any tests i have an idling contabo VPS M box until 17 May or so

Did you make this one https://serverscope.io/trials/m0x0 ? Otherwise you could try updating it.

bdwebservices

@edfox said:
Also if anybody wants me to take any tests i have an idling contabo VPS M box until 17 May or so

Which location?

Ympker

@bdwebservices said:

@edfox said:
Also if anybody wants me to take any tests i have an idling contabo VPS M box until 17 May or so

Which location?

Contabo is Germany Munich or Nuremberg location iirc.

bdwebservices

@Ympker said:

@bdwebservices said:

@edfox said:
Also if anybody wants me to take any tests i have an idling contabo VPS M box until 17 May or so

Which location?

Contabo is Germany Munich or Nuremberg location iirc.

bdwebservices

How is Munich Datacenter ?

Ympker

@bdwebservices said:
How is Munich Datacenter ?

Dont even know which one I had :P Id reckon they are not too different.