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Contabo CLOUD VPS XS
Although there are no announcements from the Contabo account,
I see that CLOUD VPS XS has been added to Contabo.
€2.99 / month (You can also choose the US$ or £, but the € is cheaper)
2 vCPU Cores
4 GB RAM
35 GB NVMe or 100 GB SSD
No Snapshots
16 TB Traffic Unlimited Incoming
I'm in Japan, and Contabo also has a Japan region (+€1.50), I choose that and it costs €4.49 / month.
It has become a hot topic on Japanese social, and some people are signing contracts right away.
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Is the latency good? I'm using Vultr to supply a Japan server right now, not sure how it would compare network wise.
The pricing and bandwidth they give for Japan is incredible.
Contabo's Japan region was recently created, so you can expect there to be fewer users. There are reports of congestion in other regions, but I haven't noticed any in Japan yet.
Furthermore, if you need a server with certain specifications in Japan, Vultr seems to be a good option. Misskey.io, Misskey's largest server, used Vultr for a while. However, it currently uses other servers as well.
(If you know, DigitalOceian does not have servers in Japan)
100mbps bandwidth limit I presume?
Which CPU model the node runs with?
100Mbps network which is a bit slow now. There's no option to upgrade.
They run the same hardware on all DCs (based on their website)
So expect either AMD EPYC 7282 or equivalent.
Ping test from RIPE Atlas: https://atlas.ripe.net/frames/measurements/60118438/#!probes
109.123.228.91 is the IPv4 address of tyo.speedtest.contabo.net.
Not quite usable with transit only provided by HE and Arelion who both have little presence in Japan. Go for it if you plan to route all traffic through Cloudflare, maybe...
For traffic usage this VPS is a huge plus, but the rest, meh, they could remove the location price to be a bit comparable with other providers in this price region.
For only €4.49 with 2 Cores 4GB RAM and 16TB BW @ 100 Mbps, i think it's really2 good deal, especially for the people who need high BW (VPN or others).
They lie. I ordered a Cloud VPS S few weeks ago and got E5-2630 v4.
Fair enough, that was my conclusion too. Thanks for the insight!
Which location?
Nuremberg
I was wondering when they would be pulling the prices down, there were premium locations comparable with their usual prices and still are, for example we offer much more storage and not oversold CPU but only 10 TB traffic for that price.
I would have bought that, though, if they had nested virtualization.
They have higher bandwidth limits on bigger plans, so yeah you can technically upgrade it if you need it.
Anyone got YABS for it?
i use in europe and it's a good provider contabo!