It's because Contabo is using older Xeons or Xeon Silver instead of the Xeon Gold ones over at Hetzner/Netcup.

Regardless of the short-term benchmark you probably can't keep sustained speed on any long running (multi hours or days) transcode or other cpu intensive task on any cheap VPS. The host will decrease

I yet to try Contabo, I see them cheaper on the higher ram/cpus than netcup RS plans. But there is an issue with 400 mbits limit even for local network, I yet to clarify with them. Your test is good,

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Maybe it's worth to wait for the next netcup easter/spring deals?

InceptionHosting, LiteServer, Netcup, UltraVPS, Virmach for business critical reliable VPS. Never had any significant downtimes so I just list them in alphabetical order.

Otherwhise Netcup and Hetzner. Made in Germany TM hahaha

Netcup.

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from Netcup.

I ran a couple Hetzner spin-ups after they were initially offered, as the price was right- and why not? I ended up going to NetCup just because the CPU and network were stronger at the time, and they

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This is my first new VPS of 2019, so I don't feel so guilty, plus I'm really using this new VPS for work. In addition, I didn't renew an old (smaller) netcup vServer in February. How's this as a ratio

Easter is coming and you'll love netcup.

Do you allow private network within your data centre? Is internal communication traffic free? I need 3 more VPS for testing and clustering purpose. netcup charges on same. Doing workaround with them w

For comparison, here's a fresh Geekbench from my netcup Root-Server Eierkanone (from Easter last year), also two dedicated cores/threads, but slighter better processor (E5-2670 v3 @ 2.30GHz), but less