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Respect.
I have cancelled my contabo VPS and asked for money back using 14 day rule.
My experience with $36/year vps (inception hosting @Clouvider) is much better and I plan to renew the VPS for the next year.
Yes, IH has some very tasty products. I still like my small promo VPS very much.
it seems i would not bother wasting my time with the nvme
the ssd line seems like it is still the superior deal if you want a contabo server
I don't think they have new offers on SSD, it's only NVME for new orders.
no, when you click order it still has the 200gb ssd option
I should write "stick with Hetzner/netcup/PHP-Friends".
Cant edit now, fuck.
What about Leaseweb? I mean other than the pricing.
For dedis: Hetzner/Reliablesite/Leaseweb/OVH/SYS
No idea about Leaseweb VPS offer.
News:
As I've said I did contact Contabo and asked them to either delete the quote from me or to delete the "three times". And they complied and took the "three times" out, so the current version just says "faster than" (instead of "three times faster than") which is correct albeit based on only one VM (my private one which I pay for).
I've also confronted them with my current results as gathered from my own private VPS, which show numbers far below what my original benchmark showed, even on a production node.
Now I've just got another communications in which some manager confirms that there indeed was a problem with some interface hardware. They've tracked down the problem and I'm benchmarking it while we talk.
I also confronted them with the allegations of them brutally overselling and they assured me that those are not true and that they do not overcrowd their systems.
Now, of course one shouldn't just believe what a company says about itself, but on the other hand I've never found them to be lying to me and in fact we have quite frank conversations and they have been surprisingly open about quite a few things I've asked.
Does that mean that I again recommend Contabo? No. At least not yet. I want to dig a bit deeper and to benchmark the VPS with the fixed interface problem. As I said they seem to have never lied to me, but on the other hand I can't and won't just ignore multiple LET users who speak about Contabo brutally overselling.
So, while things seem to move in a good direction, at least for now I go with those of you who prefer and recommend other providers like NexusBytes / @seriesn (not german but really great) or netcup both of which I have a VPS with and a good or even excellent customer experience or Hetzner / @Hetzner_OL with whom I have no personal experience but who have such a large and consistent fan club here that I can't but presume that they are a fine provider too.
Just got email from contabo that it may take “several days” before the refund can be issued.
Personally, Contabo is not even in my top 10 list.
Most value/performance combo -
1. Inception Hosting
2. Racknerd
The delete “three times” part was not disclosed before in the forum. You simply stated that you have asked them to remove the quote.
You have yourself admitted that “faster than” is based on just one VPS. It seems you are comfortable putting your just one vps based quote on the site that acts a marketing magnet.
Well, provide me with 10 or 100 VPS and I'll test them. I happen to have just 1 and based on that VPS the quote (in its changed form) is OK. IF I should find them lying and/or cheating on me, having to pull the quote completely will be the smallest problem they'll have with me.
Sorry, it just doesn't work the way some of you want it. I very much dislike a certain provider yet when he had a promo with a really good product I gave them a fair review. Because the emotions of a benchmarker must not guide his work and because integrity and fairness is of paramount importance. He may be an a__hole (IMO) but his VPS was nice and fast and a bargain and so that's what I reported, period.
Same game in the other direction. I have publicly admitted to be a big NexusBytes / @seriesn fan, but when I review a product of his I present cold data.
A benchmarker MUST be fair and report what (s)he sees, no matter whether he likes or dislikes a provider.
Actually Contabo is a good example. On a VPS with the problem fixed I suddenly see fabulous numbers again - yet what did I do? Did I go back to recommending them? Nope. One (1) suddenly fast again VPS doesn't cut it anymore after what I experienced. That one fast again VPS might be nice for me personally but I do not accept that as a basis to recommend them again. And I told them so. I want to see evidence that clearly indicates that all NVMe VPS nodes are fixed and fast.
Ordered a VPS L NVMe with 400GB NVMe (location EU) for 17,84 € per month on a 12 month plan. The results are not satisfying and I will cancel the contract within the 14 days period.
In the meantime my Netcup RS 4000 G9 SE (800GB SSD) for 24,42€ per month is doing this:
Lol CPU more than twice as fast (AES) on netcup while both are EPYCs 2nd gen, 8vCPU and netcup has A LOT lower frequency.
We are overselling to the max,
Contabo
I lol'd on complaints... Do you even utilize 100% that humongous nvme speed for decent period of time or just looking at bench without real world usage?
I left Contabo this month after 2 years.