Do suggest any options other than contabo and hosthatch, I've already looked at them.

P.S. For those who are interested, here are the results of 15 runs during my recent "who's the bestest" shootout for my old (but meanwhile upgraded) Contabo DE VPS (both the St. Loui

As for the very negative judgements re Contabo:

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: Contabo GmbHASN : AS51167 Contabo GmbHHost : Contabo GmbHLocation : Lauterbourg, Grand Est (GES)Country : Francefio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition /dev/sda1)

You might like to know that Contabo's "Cloud VPS 30", with 8 vCPU cores, performs worse than Hetzner's "CX22", with 2 vCPU cores.

Yes, it looks like that. Sad story. But, oh well, if Contabo wants to make us not like them ...

Despite all the negative reviews, why Contabo still thrives and remains profitable is beyond comprehension.

OVHcloud, Contabo, and Leaseweb are good options with fair prices, flexible setups, and reliable support. You can also check out the dedicated server offers on LowEndTalk at: https://lowendtalk.com/d

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At least Contabo has one thing going for them: they have been around for a long time and will likely continue to be around for a long time given their branding (good or bad). Contabo is not a provider

The only competitor to Contabo

P.S.: I know of two companies, WIIT AG (servdiscount.com) and Contabo GmbH (contabo.com), that may be of interest to you, with servers located in Germany. And I have been a satisfied customer of both

https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/197431/contabo-strange-behavior/p1

But that's not the critical point with Contabo anyway. The critical point IMO was and still is much improved monitoring and abuse control.

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NEW entry-level VPS from Contabo: VPS S SSD with 4 cores, 6 GB RAM & 100 GB NVME for 4.99 EUR/month!

This is why I'm not longer a Contabo customer.