As that comes up again: I have purchased a Contabo NVMe VPS and yes, the results are worse than in my benchmarks on an (almost) empty node. No surprise there nor in any way Contabo specific.

I'd suggest 4-8GB of ram (the more, the better), a SSD or NVME and a provider who will not destroy your I/O (as Contabo does, at least per my experience).

i bet someone will strongly disagree on the contabo part.

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Keep an eye on usage and upgrade if needed. Use a premium provider like NexusBytes, not Contabo, for better performance.

https://contabo.com/en/storage-vps/ cheapest plan meets your criteria. 3.99euro/mo before tax

If your favorite provider (Hetzner, NexusBytes, netcup, Contabo etc.) which has no/weak/average DDoS Protection would give you option to get better L4+L7 protection for a little bit extra would you ge

For owners of Contabo & Hetzner VPS, would you mind to share your VPS model and performance test results (URL link) according to this tester

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Plus I did (and still do) quite a few benchmarks on other Contabo VPS (which I purchased) and I never saw that level of difference.

I don't know the reasons, maybe an overcrowded node, maybe abusers on the node, maybe quite unbalanced occupation, but I would strongly suggest (and highly likely will) Contabo to get their node manag

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I now have got confirmation from the person in charge of virtualization at Contabo who was responsible for creating my test VMs that those VMs were normal VMs, just like those sold to customers, with

As I was asked by someone to benchmark his Contabo VPS I came across a point I meant to mention but then forgot; now I was reminded:

B is Contabo

Two people running Yabs would saturate sequentials of these drives in raid. Just two. But nobody will need this much speed so they just let it be, because besides benchmarks nobody will hit these spee

contabo and prepaid exceed the budget :-(