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Don't worry, you don't miss much
They hold the record in overselling
Thanks.
Have heard about them many times,
some positive things and also many complains
Honestly, I don't see any reason to pick Contabo over Netcup monthly deals. Haven't heard a single good thing about Contabo in the past two years—just non-stop complaints.
Yabs for Cloud VPS 10 NVMe:
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Yet-Another-Bench-Script
v2025-04-20
https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script
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Wed May 7 17:31:48 CEST 2025
Basic System Information:
Uptime : 0 days, 0 hours, 2 minutes
Processor : AMD EPYC Processor (with IBPB)
CPU cores : 3 @ 3195.196 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM : 7.8 GiB
Swap : 0.0 KiB
Disk : 72.6 GiB
Distro : Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
Kernel : 6.8.0-58-generic
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ✔ Online
IPv6 Network Information:
ISP : Contabo GmbH
ASN : AS51167 Contabo GmbH
Host : Contabo GmbH
Location : Lauterbourg, Grand Est (GES)
Country : France
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda1):
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
Test | Value
|
Single Core | 1611
Multi Core | 3996
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/11854758
YABS completed in 13 min 23 sec
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doing God's work!!!
Make a YABS in a month and show us drop in performance.
Sure, just remind me.
Some gut things:
I once made a purchase, but the price increased after three months. It's so funny
I've never seen anything like this before
The issue is that this yabs is very misleading. When you order a new service, you're placed on a node that is not as severely overpopulated. But as the number of VMs running on the host machine increases CPU steal goes to 60-70% and your gb6 score is cut in more than half.
This is why I'm not longer a Contabo customer.
Also I now own 10cent Cloud
This package used to be: 4 cores 8 gb ram 100 gb nvme
NEW entry-level VPS from Contabo: VPS S SSD with 4 cores, 6 GB RAM & 100 GB NVME for 4.99 EUR/month!
Yabs:
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Yet-Another-Bench-Script
v2025-04-20
https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script
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Wed May 7 16:48:04 UTC 2025
Basic System Information:
Uptime : 1 days, 20 hours, 56 minutes
Processor : AMD EPYC Processor (with IBPB)
CPU cores : 4 @ 2794.748 MHz
AES-NI : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
RAM : 5.8 GiB
Swap : 0.0 KiB
Disk : 97.9 GiB
Distro : Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS
Kernel : 5.15.0-139-generic
VM Type : KVM
IPv4/IPv6 : ✔ Online / ❌ Offline
IPv4 Network Information:
ISP : Contabo GmbH
ASN : AS51167 Contabo GmbH
Host : Contabo GmbH
Location : Lauterbourg, Grand Est (GES)
Country : France
fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda2):
iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
Geekbench 6 Benchmark Test:
Test | Value
|
Single Core | 735
Multi Core | 1701
Full Test | https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/11855861
YABS completed in 16 min 2 sec
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and before that it used to be 4vcpu 8gb ram 400 gb ssd for the same price.
let me know when you got 99.99% uptime sla
Nope, they now have a (slightly, it seems to me but I only used it for one install) changed/updated panel. One important thing it includes now is an "install from ISO" option - but only from a limited set of ISOs; in my case for example it was a somewhat old-ish FreeBSD version. AFAIK one still needs to contact support - and pay some fee - to up/download one's own ISO.
Maybe there are more positive changes, Idk, but it seems to still be quite limited and most providers offer better functionality and options in their panel.
But that's not the critical point with Contabo anyway. The critical point IMO was and still is much improved monitoring and abuse control.
I call BS, at least for the (quite long) time I know Contabo. It always was 4 vCores, 8 GB memory, and 200 GB SSD.
I just benchmarked my "old" Contabo VPSs and the result was quite good, really good for DE, but still mediocre for St.Louis (USA) and SGP.
TL;DR: the significantly updated DE VPS is really good and offers a lot of bang per buck (but maybe my node wasn't fully occupied; I'll check again from time to time). The asian and american node still are mediocre but SGP might be called a good deal due to anything east from India seems to be a somewhat problematic market. For St.-Louis however I see no excuse and think that it's about time to either significantly upgrade their nodes or significantly lower the prices.
Re "200 Mb/s only": I kind of agree; that limit should be set somewhat higher, maybe 500 Mb/s - but with a limit per se I have no problem. OTOH though cheap providers just have to cut some corners and traffic costs are not the worst corner to cut, after all you get 32 TB (a lot).
Some data can be seen in my recent big shootout (https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/204970/big-let-vps-vds-shootout-18-providers-25-vps-vds-whos-the-bestest), but if requested I also can publish the full results here.
Super TL;DR: Contabo now != Contabo yesteryear, but they move quite slowly. But at least for DE though they have improved very significantly.
P.S. It seems that @contabo_m - again - just puts their offer in here but do no respond. Sad, that.
I wonder what they meant ...
Contabo, please get it already! LET may not be the nicest crowd but simply not talking with us certainly will not help your cause! Talk with us!
I've got a lot of feedback and a lot of suggestions that they could do to improve things (beyond my initial tag and post in page 1) but if they just keep dumping this and then running away because of last criticisms rather than facing up and proving it then I doubt any minds will change jsg.
No, thanks
Sir can we have some YABS please thank you very much!
Reguards,
I have read so many negative feedback about you @contabo_m . Stop overselling.
Yes, exactly what you wrote. I was with Contab for many years. Their policy is that they will send an email over time and say that they are raising the price. So, for example, a VPS that you paid $5 per month will go up to $10 and they won't let you buy a new VPS because a new VPS is still $5.
You can read this and everything will be clear:
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/197431/contabo-strange-behavior/p1
On the other hand, you don't have to expect them to respond to your messages here @contabo_m
He just comes and writes an offer and doesn't show up or respond to people here anymore.
Your servers are unstable and have problems every couple of months and go down for several days, also with 3vCPU and 8gm of RAM they are very slow! I don't recommend it
Avoid this provider... among the worst ever. Setup fees (or "location fees" as they call them) on VPSes is beyond asinine, plus price hikes over time. "Contablows" is a name for a reason.
Remember: Sometimes it's expensive to be cheap.
Ordered a new VPS10 just to test some stuff on. YABS is very disappointing.
what were you even expecting
Not much to be honest. Luckily its just something cheap to use for testing, would definitely not use for production.
@contabo_m
How about a statement re your plans and actually responding here?
Don't worry about it, you definitely dodged a bullet
Internal server error I can't access it using a VPN
Despite all the negative reviews, why Contabo still thrives and remains profitable is beyond comprehension.
He will never answer you here. He just comes to write an offer and doesn't enter LET again until the next offer he writes.
In any case, one of the worst hosting companies on the market!!!! @contabo_m