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500000 users at contabo?
EpicEscapist
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https://contabo.com/blog/500000-vps-hosted-at-contabo/ I'm just wondering how this happend then I see a lot of people on here and on reddit having issues with them when I see there name. did they really get better as they clamed?
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If I had to guess,
They're cheap. People will buy regardless.
There's no proof about numbers, it may just be marketing
And many people doesn't even know what cpu steal is so it can be
I am one of their clients. I never had any problem with them.
Congrats Contabo!
can anyone send a yabs for one of there vps's? I don't feel like byeing one to find out
why not? 500k VPS can be just 5k servers. That's only 2 floors.
Once the contabo servers down it will take almost 3-4 days for fixing some times even 1 week
used to have a vps with them in the past. it's good enough that i got 0% steal
Good for you!
credit where it is due, contabo's recent investment in turin cpu has made it more bearable and, in fact, sufficiently good.
forget contabo.
some new LET providers who launched in last 6 to 12 months claim on their site that they've +25K customers. Contabo is quite older brand.
From what i've heard it's pretty hit and miss. If you end up on a node with a lot of mostly idle neighbors it's OK but if you are put with the party squad you are SOL and like people mentioned support isn't great. Contabo can work out but if it does is so far beyond people's influence it's not really recommendable.
Contabo is good for the price. Nothing intense for longer time, but for bursts they are ok.
I used to use them, they weren't bad for a time but they got bad in St. Louis
never used them, because i read LET threads. And one thing i hate is oversold 5 euro vps-es. If they were 1 or 2 euro okay, like strato and ionos has. But 5 euro... omg how dare they. (Greta accent)
I just noticed they have Stephen Wolfram in their board of directors, he's their CEO actually. Very impressive!
Oh.. it's Stephan not Stephen. I must have misread it.
Sorry.
Kindly note that "500k VPS" != "500k customers".
And yes, it seems they do get better - albeit very slowly (based on what I saw and see). Also see below ...
St. Louis happens to be one of their locations I have a Contabo VPS (since a few years) and in my books it always was under "yuck!".
It depends quite a lot on location. My upgraded VPS in Germany for example got so much better that it actually ended up in the top 5 in my shootout thread. I presume that their new location are similarly good, but their older locations which aren't upgraded yet are quite [self censored].
The way I see it you get quite a lot for not that much money (e.g. very generous traffic volume), BUT their VPSs aren't racing horses.
Or in other words: a really decent and damn good enough deal and VPS for well over 85% of us.
Have been with them from 2021 till now. what others say that is not that important. You never try you never know.
They must do a chunk of NATing I guess to reach 500,000. AS51167 announces 1864x /24 (477184 IPs, including unusable IPs).
https://bgp.tools/as/40021
https://bgp.tools/as/141995
absolutely. I once had 4 VPS With them for individual client woocommerce setups in UK and they performed fair for money i paid until they had a few unannounced downtimes and then Moved elsewhere. so many customers may have more than 1 VPS as rightly pointed out.
Glad to say I’m not one of them
The 500.000 VPS post is mainly a marketing/scale milestone showing how big their infrastructure has grown, not necessarily a statement about quality.
Contabo is known for offering very cheap VPS plans with high advertised resources, and they achieve that by aggressive overselling and high density infrastructure. That means many virtual servers share the same physical hardware.
I had VPS servers with Contabo and I’d recommend checking online reviews before deciding.
Pictorial representation of Contabo VPSs
I was a long time user at Contabo - in the STL location. The servers are definitely not the fastest, but are very stable, rarely below 99.99% uptime.
In terms of VM, one useful feature of their VM is to hot save/load a snapshot (i.e., server doesn't need to reboot when loading a snapshot). This was very useful for our applications which I don't see in other providers.
For dedicated servers in their DC, we were able to drive to the DC and had the tech there hookup our backup drives in less than 20 minutes during a hardware failure event.
I guess the main selling point of Contabo is its SMB readiness, and without the cost of an arm and a leg.
I have a lot of customers that run on Contabo vps's, and I must say there are rarely any problems.
I know this can be hard to grasp for some people but there are actually users out there that do not run yabs 24/7. They do not need 100% of the cpu and they rarely trash the drives to pieces. They just want a stable, cheap vps to run some kind of service that do not require 100% percent of the resources, which believe it or not actually describes most services that normal users run. But if you are the kind of user that immediately scream "YABS" when someone mentions a provider, then no, Contabo is not for you.
I'm not saying Contabo is perfect, but for normal usage they are actually ok and they are dirt cheap. As usual, if you pay nothing and expect everything you will be disappointed, but if you have resonable expectations you will probably be ok there.
I'll leave you the link and I'll just say one thing " a word to the wise is enough ".
https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/177940/contabo-new-record-in-cpu-steal-d
Best regards.
I can only share my own experience. I used a Contabo Singapore VPS for about 1 year and had no major issues. It worked well and the uptime was good.
The reason I left was not because of performance. After one year, I received an email about a price increase of around 21%. To be fair, Contabo gave about 4 months' notice before the increase, but I still wasn't happy with such a large price hike. As an existing customer, I expected better pricing, especially when new customers were still getting lower promotional rates. Because of that, I decided to move my VPS to OVH.
As for the 500,000 VPS milestone, I don't find it surprising. Contabo has been in the market for many years and offers very affordable VPS plans. Many customers also run more than one VPS.
500k VPSs is a milestone showing their scale, not proof that they are the best provider. It simply shows that there is a big demand for low-cost hosting.
Since I can login to multiple vps's right now and see that things work just fine I take that over your link to a 4 year old thread. But thanks anyway.
Good and interesting point!
Yes, there not only are the kind of customers you mention but they make up about 95% of most providers' customers.
Plus while it may look different here, the vast majority of customers are only mildly interested in benchmarks and a bunch of parameters (like e.g. congestion control algorithms), if at all.
It's somewhat similar to what and how people look at an apartment or house. "Is it the size we need plus ideally some reserve?" is a very major question and not technical details.
After all a server is purchased for a purpose, usually a website.