Сontabo (Cloud VPS S - $8.49) - Very slow bandwidth speed <111KB/s >

memex · January 17

Hi!
Can you evaluate the performance of this plan and the company as a whole.

wget --passive-ftp -c -O /dev/null https://speed.hetzner.de/100MB.bin /dev/null 1%[ ] 1.48M 111KB/s eta 14m 50s^

My letter to the support service about the existing problem with the bandwidth speed, received the following "qualified" response.

Quote:

Dear Victor,
Thanks for reaching out to Contabo customer support.
Please run the following commands under SSH:
wget -O speedtest-cli https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sivel/speedtest-cli/master/speedtest.py && chmod +x speedtest-cli && ./speedtest-cli
You can find a tutorial about how to do this on the following website. There you can find a step-by-step instruction about the steps you need to perform:
https://www.linuxwebzone.com/how-to-run-speedtest-on-vps-server/

The results please send us as a .txt file.

Best regards,
Oleg Degtiarev
Support Specialist

-------------------- A Bench.sh Script By Teddysun -------------------
 Version            : v2022-06-01
 Usage              : wget -qO- bench.sh | bash
----------------------------------------------------------------------
 CPU Model          : AMD EPYC 7282 16-Core Processor
 CPU Cores          : 4 @ 2794.748 MHz
 CPU Cache          : 512 KB
 AES-NI             : Enabled
 VM-x/AMD-V         : Disabled
 Total Disk         : 398.4 GB (6.4 GB Used)
 Total Mem          : 7.8 GB (398.0 MB Used)
 Total Swap         : 1024.0 MB (0 Used)
 System uptime      : 0 days, 11 hour 59 min
 Load average       : 0.29, 0.18, 0.06
 OS                 : CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)
 Arch               : x86_64 (64 Bit)
 Kernel             : 6.1.6-1.el7.elrepo.x86_64
 TCP CC             : cubic
 Virtualization     : Dedicated
 Organization       : AS51167 Contabo GmbH
 Location           : Düsseldorf / DE
 Region             : North Rhine-Westphalia
----------------------------------------------------------------------
 I/O Speed(1st run) : 166 MB/s
 I/O Speed(2nd run) : 106 MB/s
 I/O Speed(3rd run) : 106 MB/s
 I/O Speed(average) : 126.0 MB/s
----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Node Name        Upload Speed      Download Speed      Latency
 Speedtest.net    189.79 Mbps       1.94 Mbps           114.55 ms
 Los Angeles, US  188.66 Mbps       51.26 Mbps          152.95 ms
 Dallas, US       192.35 Mbps       0.98 Mbps           126.95 ms
 Montreal, CA     190.74 Mbps       2.64 Mbps           85.16 ms
 Paris, FR        190.76 Mbps       5.61 Mbps           14.81 ms
 Amsterdam, NL    190.79 Mbps       15.86 Mbps          4.60 ms
 Shanghai, CN     185.07 Mbps       122.10 Mbps         185.57 ms
 Nanjing, CN      85.54 Mbps        0.91 Mbps           222.92 ms
 Guangzhou, CN    29.06 Mbps        0.53 Mbps           252.72 ms
 Singapore, SG    190.08 Mbps       1.25 Mbps           171.99 ms
 Tokyo, JP        183.86 Mbps       15.54 Mbps          243.42 ms
----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Finished in        : 6 min 26 sec
 Timestamp          : 2023-01-17 18:52:36 UTC
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Neoon · January 17

Uh, standard answer, the guy is clueless of routing.
The Route/Link towards Hetzner looks congested as fuck.

If the issue persists, escalate the ticket.

maverick · January 17

At least you have rather good connection to Shanghai and Los Angeles.

Do one thing, install mtr-tiny or whatever it's called in Centos. Do traceroute, mtr -zbwrc 30 speed.hetzner.de than copy the output here, so we can all see where that traffic is so choked to death.

memex · January 17

@maverick said: Do traceroute, mtr -zbwrc 30 speed.hetzner.de than copy the output here, so we can all see where that traffic is so choked to death.

HOST: vmi999999.contaboserver.net Loss% Snt Last Avg Best Wrst StDev
1. AS51167 ip-161-97-128-11.static.contabo.net (161.97.128.11) 0.0% 30 0.8 1.6 0.8 16.9 2.9
2. AS??? 10.0.50.2 0.0% 30 0.7 1.2 0.7 5.7 0.8
3. AS1299 ddf-b2-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.171.184) 0.0% 30 0.7 0.9 0.7 2.7 0.4
4. AS1299 ffm-bb1-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.135.150) 0.0% 30 4.9 4.7 4.5 6.5 0.3
5. AS1299 ffm-b5-link.ip.twelve99.net (62.115.114.89) 0.0% 30 4.6 4.9 4.5 7.4 0.6
6. AS1299 hetzner-ic326013-ffm-b5.ip.twelve99-cust.net (213.248.70.3) 0.0% 30 22.9 21.2 14.7 36.8 5.4
7. AS24940 core12.nbg1.hetzner.com (213.239.224.237) 0.0% 30 7.6 9.1 7.4 27.6 3.9
8. AS24940 nbg1-speed.hetzner.com (88.198.248.254) 0.0% 30 7.5 7.4 7.2 8.1 0.0

maverick · January 17

Well, that's weird, the network path is clean and short, no packet loss, etc...

Have no ideas, try that wget again some time later...

Maybe some other Contabo user can check on their VPS...

jar · January 18

How in the actual fuck do you get better bandwidth to China than anywhere else, from outside of China lol

treesmokah · January 18

@jar said:
How in the actual fuck do you get better bandwidth to China than anywhere else, from outside of China lol

Who knows. Maybe some Contabo engineer was on family holidays in China and configured home router there to relay traffic for some reason.
At this point - I expect the unexpected from Contabo.

itsnotv · January 18

My contabo is so fast.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Node Name        Upload Speed      Download Speed      Latency     
 Speedtest.net    79.33 Mbps        80.02 Mbps          16.04 ms    
 Los Angeles, US  83.52 Mbps        74.21 Mbps          56.18 ms    
 Dallas, US       84.92 Mbps        76.01 Mbps          20.26 ms    
 Montreal, CA     79.24 Mbps        68.83 Mbps          28.50 ms    
 Paris, FR        82.83 Mbps        69.21 Mbps          95.43 ms    
 Amsterdam, NL    84.34 Mbps        83.60 Mbps          98.86 ms    
 Shanghai, CN     84.73 Mbps        72.44 Mbps          172.23 ms   
 Nanjing, CN      78.92 Mbps        76.63 Mbps          176.63 ms   
 Guangzhou, CN    88.32 Mbps        68.84 Mbps          191.21 ms   
 Hongkong, CN     86.25 Mbps        90.18 Mbps          214.59 ms   
 Singapore, SG    86.46 Mbps        82.27 Mbps          227.48 ms   
 Tokyo, JP        85.24 Mbps        84.44 Mbps          148.78 ms   
----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Finished in        : 6 min 1 sec

cybertech · January 18

@itsnotv said:
My contabo is so fast.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Node Name        Upload Speed      Download Speed      Latency     
 Speedtest.net    79.33 Mbps        80.02 Mbps          16.04 ms    
 Los Angeles, US  83.52 Mbps        74.21 Mbps          56.18 ms    
 Dallas, US       84.92 Mbps        76.01 Mbps          20.26 ms    
 Montreal, CA     79.24 Mbps        68.83 Mbps          28.50 ms    
 Paris, FR        82.83 Mbps        69.21 Mbps          95.43 ms    
 Amsterdam, NL    84.34 Mbps        83.60 Mbps          98.86 ms    
 Shanghai, CN     84.73 Mbps        72.44 Mbps          172.23 ms   
 Nanjing, CN      78.92 Mbps        76.63 Mbps          176.63 ms   
 Guangzhou, CN    88.32 Mbps        68.84 Mbps          191.21 ms   
 Hongkong, CN     86.25 Mbps        90.18 Mbps          214.59 ms   
 Singapore, SG    86.46 Mbps        82.27 Mbps          227.48 ms   
 Tokyo, JP        85.24 Mbps        84.44 Mbps          148.78 ms   
----------------------------------------------------------------------
 Finished in        : 6 min 1 sec

its 2023 mate, they gotta move beyond 100mbps

itsnotv · January 18

@cybertech said: its 2023 mate, they gotta move beyond 100mbps

I had 400 Mbps, but Contabo was unhappy with me for using 116 Mbps and they limited my VPS to 100 Mbps.

cybertech · January 18

@itsnotv said:

@cybertech said: its 2023 mate, they gotta move beyond 100mbps

I had 400 Mbps, but Contabo was unhappy with me for using 116 Mbps and they limited my VPS to 100 Mbps.

lol wut

add_iT · January 18

@memex you have nice username / id

JabJab · January 18

@itsnotv said: I had 400 Mbps, but Contabo was unhappy with me for using 116 Mbps and they limited my VPS to 100 Mbps.

WAT
Did they quote TOS/AUP too?

Neoon · January 18

@itsnotv said:

@cybertech said: its 2023 mate, they gotta move beyond 100mbps

I had 400 Mbps, but Contabo was unhappy with me for using 116 Mbps and they limited my VPS to 100 Mbps.

Uh, Offline.net move.

itsnotv · January 18

@JabJab said: WAT
Did they quote TOS/AUP too?

Here is the mail from Contabo. Not sure how they calculate 10 days, but I was rate limited within 3 days.

Being in the position of an infrastructure and hosting provider, it is our obligation to ensure a fair allocation of the available bandwidth amongst and in favour of all Contabo customers likewise. To fulfill this requirement, various shaping mechanisms have been implemented, which regulate such fair distribution of bandwidth at runtime.

While this aforementioned instrument already contributes essentially towards our aim to guarantee a fair bandwidth allocation, we found that it may not suffice in every situation and that it requires an additional tool to regulate extraordinary bandwidth consumption which comes into effect, when such is gauged.

Your VPS M Storage () is equipped with a 400 Mbit/s port by default.

During the last 10 days your VPS M Storage () had been consuming an average outgoing bandwidth of 116 Mbit/s. As mentioned in the regulations on our website, we are forced to throttle the port speed of your instance if the outgoing bandwidth exceeds the bandwidth package for 10 days in a row. To ensure the commitment of ours, to guarantee a fair share of the available bandwidth between all users, we just switched the port of your server to 100 Mbit/s.

pixexid · January 18

Contabo is a joke, save your money and pick some VPS from LET providers like @Shakib or @NDTN

Advin · January 18

@itsnotv said:

@JabJab said: WAT
Did they quote TOS/AUP too?

Here is the mail from Contabo. Not sure how they calculate 10 days, but I was rate limited within 3 days.

Being in the position of an infrastructure and hosting provider, it is our obligation to ensure a fair allocation of the available bandwidth amongst and in favour of all Contabo customers likewise. To fulfill this requirement, various shaping mechanisms have been implemented, which regulate such fair distribution of bandwidth at runtime.

While this aforementioned instrument already contributes essentially towards our aim to guarantee a fair bandwidth allocation, we found that it may not suffice in every situation and that it requires an additional tool to regulate extraordinary bandwidth consumption which comes into effect, when such is gauged.

Your VPS M Storage () is equipped with a 400 Mbit/s port by default.

During the last 10 days your VPS M Storage () had been consuming an average outgoing bandwidth of 116 Mbit/s. As mentioned in the regulations on our website, we are forced to throttle the port speed of your instance if the outgoing bandwidth exceeds the bandwidth package for 10 days in a row. To ensure the commitment of ours, to guarantee a fair share of the available bandwidth between all users, we just switched the port of your server to 100 Mbit/s.

How long ago was this?

socialzzz · January 18

typical response from contabo, thats why stay clear. it's just crap

Kousaka · January 18

@itsnotv said:

@JabJab said: WAT
Did they quote TOS/AUP too?

Here is the mail from Contabo. Not sure how they calculate 10 days, but I was rate limited within 3 days.

Being in the position of an infrastructure and hosting provider, it is our obligation to ensure a fair allocation of the available bandwidth amongst and in favour of all Contabo customers likewise. To fulfill this requirement, various shaping mechanisms have been implemented, which regulate such fair distribution of bandwidth at runtime.

While this aforementioned instrument already contributes essentially towards our aim to guarantee a fair bandwidth allocation, we found that it may not suffice in every situation and that it requires an additional tool to regulate extraordinary bandwidth consumption which comes into effect, when such is gauged.

Your VPS M Storage () is equipped with a 400 Mbit/s port by default.

During the last 10 days your VPS M Storage () had been consuming an average outgoing bandwidth of 116 Mbit/s. As mentioned in the regulations on our website, we are forced to throttle the port speed of your instance if the outgoing bandwidth exceeds the bandwidth package for 10 days in a row. To ensure the commitment of ours, to guarantee a fair share of the available bandwidth between all users, we just switched the port of your server to 100 Mbit/s.

Will they eventually remove the restriction? When other providers go up to 10Gbit/s they throttle, nice Contabo.

Liso · January 18

@add_iT said:
@memex you have nice username / id

IYKWIM

adns · January 18

@maverick said:
Well, that's weird, the network path is clean and short, no packet loss, etc...

Have no ideas, try that wget again some time later...

Maybe some other Contabo user can check on their VPS...

I checked on 3 VPSs in Dusseldorf (VPS S, and two VPS M) and I reached the maximum port speeds (200 400 Mbps) on HTTP, over HTTPS the high steal reduced the speed on the VPS S to 11--12 MB/s. So I suggest to try without HTTPS.

@itsnotv said:

@cybertech said: its 2023 mate, they gotta move beyond 100mbps

I had 400 Mbps, but Contabo was unhappy with me for using 116 Mbps and they limited my VPS to 100 Mbps.

I was unhappy with Contabo so I switched to netcup and replaced the low-end Contabo VPS with a low-end Kimsufi one. The KS is much better, however it is still the low-end segment of the dedicated market as Contabo is the low-end of VPS market.

nyamenk · January 18

@add_iT said:
@memex you have nice username / id

I know what you think

fazar · January 18

@nyamenk said:

@add_iT said:
@memex you have nice username / id

I know what you think

wangy!

jsg · January 18

@socialzzz said:
typical response from contabo, thats why stay clear. it's just crap

Typical response from a Contabo hater ...

For some Contabo, or any comparable provider, just can't do it right. If Contabo does have some monitoring and limits in place they are criticized by some. If Contabo does not they are criticized by others who don't get their fair share of resources.

The way I see it 400 Mb/s for up to max. 10 days clearly indicates that they do support reasonably high use in emergency situations ("Help, I need to get my backup and fast"); if more than a week isn't enough time to download your backup your problem certainly isn't Contabo (wink wink nudge nudge).
For normal "my large storage" use OTOH 100 Mb/s is a quite common bandwidth albeit somewhat on the lower end.

Contabo VMs aren't the top VMs - but they are among the best in terms of bang per buck. That is their market. If you want seriously fast storage and connectivity, no problem, there are providers for that too, but at a quite different price.

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