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How would you rate Contabo?
How would you rate contabo from 1 to 5 in terms of performance to price ratio. Also it would be helpful if someone could get me a YABS of contabo Thanks.
Contabo Rating
- Performance147 votes
- 138.78%
- 222.45%
- 321.09%
- 411.56%
- 5  6.12%
- Price147 votes
- 119.73%
- 2  4.76%
- 310.88%
- 422.45%
- 542.18%
Comments
No congratulations on your 6th thread, and learn how to use the forum's search function.
Have a look at https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/176305/let-yabs-thread. There's a similar and more active thread on LES but I won't link it here because the guy running this place famously likes to edit posts mentioning that forum.
Which is better, 1 or 5?
5
$7
When I searched contabo nothing useful came up. Hence made a thread. Also did not know there was a let-yabs thread because I am new here. Thanks for the info!
Ok, I voted 1 because I’ve never used Contabo.
what an idiot .
Say more mean things about me with your pay-by-the-word internet connection xxx
8/8, I r8 it gr8 m8.
Clearly contabo is trying to hard to promote here and there.
US West:
wow looks good
Nah, I am just trying to find out some cheap servers as I need a lot of ram to host something and contabo was cheap (as for cpu usage I do not need like a huge amount)
@tmepy
For a start location is important, some of their DCs have quite nice connectivity while others are quite poor. Their nodes are very good, very decent processors (Epyc), very decent SSDs/NMVes, so theoretically dream machines - but: many say that @contabo_m brutally oversells and point at high, it seems, steal values, but are kind of wrong. I know that because I benchmarked multiple Contabo VPS and had quite direct access to some of the top-people and to some nodes and I saw with my own eyes that their nodes are not crammed full with VPS. But still, the sad fact seems to be that Contabo VPSs at least behave as if overcrowded; the reason seems to be their supposedly poor node and VM monitoring and VM management so there are some abusers on many (most?) of their nodes.
That said I think that many are approaching the whole thing from a bad angle by reading "Epyc" and "NVMe" and expecting a performance level that's unrealistic for a €5-ish/per month VPS.
No matter how great a processor is and how fast a NVMe is, with dozens of VMs on a node and some abuse going on, and all that at a very low price, you won't experience a Porsche but rather a say very decent Toyota, maybe if you are lucky a Lexus - but then, you get that for the price of a small VW.
I myself still have a couple of (normal, paid for) Contabo VPS and I like them a lot. The trick is to not be mislead by "Epyc" and "NVMe" but rather to expect decent - but not high end - performance and to enjoy the very generous amounts of RAM, disk space, traffic (32 TB!) and even multiple vCores for a rather low price.
OPs got the attention span of a goldfish, ain’t no way he’s reading your walls of text.
Ayo, don't worry I am going to read it fully lmao
Yes, thanks a lot. I am just looking for a general purpose VM to host small websites and testing stuff I do not want to run on my production dedicated machine. I am talking about the US-West datacenter. I already know that VM's at such low prices are prone to abuse. Hence, this is going to be used as a testing server. Thanks a lot @jsg your comment helped me decide it a lot
So, as I can see contabo does not provide the best performance but the price to performance ratio looks pretty good to me. Thanks for all the votes guys
You are welcome, and FWIW: My benchmarking showed that their St. Louis DC had by far the best connectivity of their USA locations.
You forgot to add options for "CPU Steal" in the poll
I really wouldn’t bother, he’s proper boring.
I tried their VPS's for a long while and after trying a different provider at some point I noticed how speedy that was for a server with half the specs of the ones I have at Contabo. Turns out Contabo severely limits either the networking or hardware capabilities of their servers to offer such low prices
Hi, i'm interesed in having a VPS with Contabo but i hope they don't have network limits like kimsufi, you mind saying how many Mbits/sec the received speed for example?
Their vps isnt bad as long as you get the amd nvme one. ☠💅
I did (and published) extensive benchmarks (quite) some time ago. From the top of my head (my DE VPS) it seems that they limit bandwidth to 200 Mb/s (or maybe I'm on an unlucky node). Note however that I measure real http download speeds and not (like other benchmarks) iperf which seems to usually show much better but IMO unrealistic results.
Generally speaking I think their network isn't among the particularly fast ones (and quite a bit varying depending on DC location) so if high speed connectivity is your priority Contabo is probably not the best option for you.
I'm quite happy with my SSD based ones too, although they're obviously considerably slower than the NVMe one. But frankly, unless one really needs high performance the difference is quite irrelevant anyway.
I also have to disagree somewhat on the AMD vCores as there is a world of difference between Epyc and Ryzen. Performance-wise the Epyc isn't really significantly faster than a E5-26xxv4 but it's more attractive for providers due to vCore node density.
That said, for the kind of product Contabo sells I think their choice was a good one; they get the vCore density and customers get an AMD Zen (and frankly, only a few really care about facts, most hear 'AMD' and think 'speed!!!' and are happy).
You get 200 Mbps on the smallest plan, 400 Mbps on the next plan and so on. They offer "unmetered" traffic where you get 100 Mbps after 32 TB. (But even before you hit 32 TB, they will limit you under some circumstances) But I think it's pretty good anyway, you get a lot of traffic for a low price.
Sometimes it's fine, sometimes it's not. Depends on the node you get placed on. Lots of resources at a low cost, though
contabo my personal experience is 1 (poor performance for production sites), 4 (good pricing). But quite good for staging sites, vpn, backups, and hosting no-so-important stuff.