Looking for Reviews of Contabo, too good to be true?

Merkin

is Contabo worth it or is it like the old saying, "you get what you pay for?" Does the cheap price come at the cost of poor performance and support? Is there any other provider that can provide those specs for the same price?
I'm referring to: https://contabo.com/en/

cloudmate

As far as I know and I have Tried, Contabo is a Good Firm only in respect of Provising Servers. Their Support is not good at all and they will not help you in any regard and answer the questions like an FAQ.

skorupion

⭐⭐⭐⭐✰/⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Contabo was and still is my first (and favorite) provider.
That's where my email, website, and nextcloud instance are.
I got the VPS S SSD, on a day of promotion when they waived the setup cost for a VPS.
If it wasn't for that promotion I might've not bought a VPS from them.
Currently, I'm very happy with them.
(But somewhat looking to get dedicated cores)
Their support is amazing, fast, and really helpful. I just needed to send them an email to get changed to an AMD node and get the disk speeds unlocked.
They have telephone support, but I never needed to use it, as I didn't have any big issues like downtime or anything like this to solve.
Their SLA (uptime) with me so far is 100%.
My only complaint is that I only have a 200 Mbit port speed, but with the fact that the service is only 5 EUR p/m, I really can't complain.
Overall I'm pretty happy with them, and would defenedly recommend them to someone.

Here is the advertised specification:
4 vCPU Cores
8 GB RAM
200 GB SSD
200 Mbit/s Port (unmetered)

Here are my YABS results:

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Wed 24 Mar 2021 09:37:44 AM CET

Basic System Information:
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Processor  : AMD EPYC 7282 16-Core Processor
CPU cores  : 4 @ 2799.998 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 7.8 GiB
Swap       : 4.0 GiB
Disk       : 197.2 GiB

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 5.29 MB/s     (1.3k) | 63.86 MB/s     (997)
Write      | 5.31 MB/s     (1.3k) | 64.27 MB/s    (1.0k)
Total      | 10.60 MB/s    (2.6k) | 128.13 MB/s   (2.0k)
           |                      |
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
Read       | 525.02 MB/s   (1.0k) | 629.90 MB/s    (615)
Write      | 552.92 MB/s   (1.0k) | 671.86 MB/s    (656)
Total      | 1.07 GB/s     (2.1k) | 1.30 GB/s     (1.2k)
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iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed
                |                           |                 |
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 196 Mbits/sec   | 197 Mbits/sec
Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 198 Mbits/sec   | busy
WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | 197 Mbits/sec   | 187 Mbits/sec
Biznet          | Jakarta, Indonesia (1G)   | 167 Mbits/sec   | 120 Mbits/sec
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 189 Mbits/sec   | 191 Mbits/sec
Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 178 Mbits/sec   | 183 Mbits/sec
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 180 Mbits/sec   | 185 Mbits/sec
Iveloz Telecom  | Sao Paulo, BR (2G)        | busy            | 129 Mbits/sec

iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv6):
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Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed
                |                           |                 |
Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | 196 Mbits/sec   | 195 Mbits/sec
Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 196 Mbits/sec   | 196 Mbits/sec
WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | 196 Mbits/sec   | 196 Mbits/sec
Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 186 Mbits/sec   | 190 Mbits/sec
Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 178 Mbits/sec   | 184 Mbits/sec

Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value
                |
Single Core     | 765
Multi Core      | 2429
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/7096597

Merkin

Thanks for that excellent review 😊

Oliver

I'm of the thought that there has to be a catch somewhere. You know what they say - if the deal is too good to be true, it probably is