The King of Value for VPS? (Contabo Review & Benchmarks)

[@JJFernandezA]

I've been using Contabo for almost 5 years now and It's been very good for the money. I am using high memory and cpu applications and they perform very well.

[@onlinealarmonline_alarm8256]

hello bro. can I install obs on ubuntu? For live streaming

[@JJFernandezA]

@@onlinealarmonline_alarm8256 you can install whatever you want. You have root user

[@onlinealarmonline_alarm8256]

@@JJFernandezA I will try it I want to make a live stream 24/7 on my music channel

[@weirddev]

@@onlinealarmonline_alarm8256 Not sure if the VPS have GPU so you can live stream on it. Even if it has a GPU it will be like 4 MB of GPU which is not suitable for livestreaming You can use these VPS for secondary steaming server in case your primary stram stops due to any power or internet outage just to keep the stream alive. But you might get a very bad FPS if you use these VPS

[@garrettstevensen2467]

I needed every single one of these test results… how to benchmark my Vultr HF VPS server, the database, the loading speed, etc. thank you!!

[@IdeaSpot]

Haha it was a lot of work actually glad u liked it

[@astronotyet]

Wow, that's a lot of work researching and benchmarking every bit of the server. Appreciate the hard work you put in your videos, you deserve much more exposure.

[@IdeaSpot]

Much appreciated! yes I wanted to put extra work into this, since it seems so cheap, I was wondering how is it possible...

[@khalifarmili1256]

@@IdeaSpot Yea, i thought the same, CHEERS MATE !!

[@ziwop8051]

Contabo are a terrible VPS provider. IdeaSpot is a shill pushing shoddy serves for unknown reasons, probably money.

[@emranmostafa]

I use Vultr for years, I have no complains at all.

[@IdeaSpot]

Me too 👍

[@Moodboard39]

Okay thanks

[@RacingRedstone]

Been running Contabo for atleast 2+ years, never experienced downtime, one vps even with over a year of uptime! However, yes the cpu bottlenecks due to VPS can be noticed for some cases

[@IdeaSpot]

thanks Ned

[@sahilbhat4493]

Bro have you bought any order from Contabo? My order is pending since 10hrs?

[@starfox-germany]

@@sahilbhat4493 No. He sneaked into their data center and stole a VPS, hiding it in a tiny Altoids metal box.

[@ikennamanagwu9646]

@@starfox-germany Lol.. You ruthless bro... Lmao

[@ikennamanagwu9646]

I have a question though as you said you've never experienced down time... I want to know if their service actually does offer redundancy and load balancing just in case or do you have to set that up your self... I ask because I've had bad experiences with this.

[@OmerB-z4i]

I've been using Contabo VPS for years now, and can i say that it did not disappoint me at all, i have been running on contabo vps a lot of projects, from wordpress sites to web apps/saas projects and all have been working great with very good response time, also like you said you can host more websites per vps due to their high RAM. I have the most expensive vps and i am using to host wordpress sites for my clients. I really recommend Contabo to anyone looking for a cheap VPS. Also its good to know that the Bandwidth goes from 200mb/s to 1gb/s as you go up on the vps plan.

[@iamsukosan]

Can you tell me what settings should I have in cyberpanel using contabo vps for WordPress website as it will have using in regular shared hosting in cpanel? Like related to security and all other stuff?

[@marc089]

Thanks Alex for another GREAT video - really a huge time saver. Thanks a million for your great work and the tremendous help you give us all in taking so much work off of testing all these things. At least that's how I see it.

[@khalidelgazzar]

Great video. Thanks Alex. Loved the detailed comparisons for everything (processor, traffic, etc)

Good one! Would love a comparison with Hetzner, Linode, Oracle & Big 3 (AWS, GCP, Azure) thrown into the mix! Best bang for a buck in $5-10 range.

[@IdeaSpot]

Good idea 👍

[@Nobel0]

wow thanks a lot,, this channel is my way t ocheck about website performance and servers testing.. Thanks a lot for your efforts and time..

[@STFUandFY]

Great video 👏 I am quite recently an user of contabo vps s. The uptime is pretty good.. but weekly a downtime which lasts some minutes between 24:00 ~ 08:00 UTC+1 but general uptime is for 2 months by 99.95%

[@HASSANBENYAMINE]

Same for me I recently changed yo Monovm

[@silentassassin8959]

Hi IdeaSpot, Do you think the load testing limitation was because of the port upload speed? I called their sales department and these are the port speeds per instance type: S - 200mbps M - 400mbps L - 600mbps XL - 1gbps It should behave similar to DO when using the XL or even an M based on 500 users per second. What do you think ?

[@sahilbhat4493]

Bro have you bought any order from Contabo? My order is pending since 10hrs?

[@sakthi22b.e]

You are correct, VPS M & L with Nvme clearly can handle stuff much better with increased port speed and would still be in lower budget.

[@paulhildmann8392]

Thank you! Excellent resource for server load testing. 👍

[@IdeaSpot]

Thanks Paul 👍

[@ashokvaswani123]

Hi Alex, Thanks for the excellent video. Very helpful for a newbie like me. I want to set up POSTAL Open source SMTP and Mautic mail management software on the basic Contabo VPS. Would like some suggestions and guidance if possible. Does Contabo give support with setup and installation and other general help as I am a noob?

[@TheJohnKou]

Great review, my only concern in the video is the graph where the 1gb ram hosting can run 10 wordpress sites. I have a 2gb ram host plan with 3 wordpress sites and 1 woocommerce and its barely enough...

[@IdeaSpot]

True, is a very rough guide - a large busy woocommerce will need a lot more 👍

[@sahilbhat4493]

Bro have you bought any order from Contabo? My VPS order is pending since 10hrs?

[@arun.sekher]

May I know which hosting provider you are using?

[@uprobo4670]

appreciate the amount of effort and the uniqueness of this niche content .. didn't even expect that someone might have taken time to do something like that but I was like "I will search anyway!!" thank you...

[@nelsonidachi287]

How do you even reach these Contabo guys for support, 2 days they don't respond to emails or calls, I can't access my Cpanel and no support from them. Bad for business.

[@IdeaSpot]

Oh true - if you need support better try somewhere else 😅

[@alexio6205]

@@IdeaSpot I read on reviews that they ask for 25€ for 15 minutes of support!

[@Moodboard39]

@@alexio6205 pfft . Better go to somewhere else

[@jugalkishore839]

This is great, could you also do a similar video on Hetzner?

[@ChigozieMImachukwuOfficial]

Hi After your checks which would VPS can you say has CPU is 3GHz+, disk reads are 2GB/s+, an writes 1GB/s+ for best performance

[@NewBlogLand]

I love contabo vps hosting plans. Thanks

[@fectagency]

Great dig and analysis. Thanks.

[@ractheworld]

Thanks for the honest, grounded review.

[@vaughnbala4016]

Hello, great guide. only problem i'm having is, I am brand new to using vps, ssh etc. I connected to my server, but now how do I actually use the server? i see you run different speed tests and so on, but after connecting to the server i can't seem to actually use it

[@wizdude]

A very detailed comparison. Thanks for this. Can I ask - why do you use Vultr in New Jersey and not Sydney? Cheers.

[@Mr438IB]

What would be the best VPS for someone who wishes to have multiple Etsy/eBay stores in other countries? VPN's do not usually function well with these sites.

[@mohittak8085]

Then you'll need a dedicated server not vps

[@mohitaggrawal5691]

Thanks Alex was waiting for it . Writing it before even seeing the video 😂

[@IdeaSpot]

Thanks Mohit 😅

[@stevenichols5708]

Do you know if several people can log into VULTR VM at the same time?For thing like training?

[@mehdibaktash9894]

thank you for the video, Can you create a video about (how to be able to use the additional storage space for VPS)?

[@mirrormirage0]

Absolutely thorough research! Thanks a ton! 🙏

[@moulcode]

love your videos to be honest so useful 👏

[@WhatAboutRC]

What i wonder is becouse of the network limits is it even worth getting the NVMe storage or just settling with SSD and actually getting to use the space.

[@IdeaSpot]

NVMe will still give you a little faster latency, but if you really are going to use that space SSD is pretty good value too

[@shahbaaz2958]

Great video! I have only one question though. free cyber panel limits you to only 2 GB of ram If i am not wrong.

[@IdeaSpot]

The limit is for litespeed enterprise , so we used openlitespeed here which is unlimited 👍

[@joefawcett2191]

Brilliant content as always thanks

[@rohansharma636]

Vultr HF is really good...

[@Albix-fq2yj]

Contabo is best hosting in eu for me also because now that they have put a very efficient anti ddos ​​they don't even throw you down anymore

[@dashwoo706]

Contano has too many maintenance schedules. The VPS is unreachable when they do maintenance.

[@ParallaxOnline]

@@dashwoo706 Not sure this is true, My contabo VPS has been up solid for 236 days? I'm US Central.

[@Moodboard39]

@@ParallaxOnline I see

[@womenisthebest682]

thanks for sharing, i am using Contabo too.

[@samurainovizio]

Great video! May i ask which software you use for graphs reporting? Thanks in advance!

[@IdeaSpot]

Excel 🤣

[@samurainovizio]

@@IdeaSpot Amazing 😂😂

[@bloggeromarfaroque]

Hey please make a video how to add domain and how to install WordPress free contabo

[@BillyRoberts]

Glad I didn't change from Vultr to Contabo.

[@Moodboard39]

🤣🤣

[@wordpressadwords7932]

Great research. thanks for the info

[@tutoriaisjose9215]

Could anyone help me with this error that I've been having since last night trying to fix it and I couldn't Network error Software caused connection abort

[@Founsiarts]

Thank you so much for the information

[@gadgetkh9408]

Thank you for your time making this. By the way, which type of CPU is contabo using (in your test)? Is it AMD EPYC 7282 or Intel?

[@IdeaSpot]

It was the AMD

[@gadgetkh9408]

@@IdeaSpot Thank you for reply. It's quite strange that the 4 core VPS (contabo) runs slower than the single core (Vultr) on the MySQL test. I'm not sure whether Mysql run on full 4 cores or just single core.

[@sakthi22b.e]

@@gadgetkh9408 Acatually he didn't compare the CPU core speeds...but it can outperform both other VPS providers. But VPS S has 200Mbits so it cannot able to perform well in 500 clients load test.

[@tobias6361]

i'd love to see you setup gameservers and see the performacne difference

[@garethrendle3766]

great video, very interesting and informative. Thank You

[@benzarsamson8439]

Thank you Alex for this vid. I wished you've included Linode.

[@IdeaSpot]

Thanks Benzar, I did test linode on an earlier video, it was the best $5 option I found, but the $6 options from Vultr HF and Digital Ocean are a bit better, worth the extra $1 i thought

[@mnjhgio7138]

Thanks for the advice

[@shofickhossain5944]

As per your video and all those test showing that 1core 2gb ram Digital Ocean and vulter is faster than 4core 8gb contabo vps. So for free its seem like a scam and catch they offered what they say but in terms of quality those a equal or lower than the 1core performance.❤ Thx for showing so much testing results from india

[@Amantha]

My experience with Contabo was disappointing. I purchased a VPS over a year ago, which did not perform as advertised.

[@WahjoeGunawan]

great video, I learnt a lot from you... thank you so much

[@phenixtech1628]

Hi sir, how to host multiples php site on single vps contabo?

[@mcdreyer7272]

I was wondering if this would be a good service for a dedicated minecraft host I was also thinking about using the revivenode vps but they are more expensive. I was wondering what you would recommend me do?

[@IdeaSpot]

i would try this first: blogs.oracle.com/developers/post/how-to-set-up-and-run-a-really-powerful-free-minecraft-server-in-the-cloud

[@marian-stirbescu]

Please do a review of Ionos

[@Jorvs]

can you run games bot to farm here for the 24/7?

[@golddust5778]

That is curious. What could be causing the 2.5s response time at 500 clients. Are these php sites or are these just apache/html sites you're loading? Are their CPU cores raspberry pi?!

[@IdeaSpot]

It’s a network port speed limit we are hitting - the cpu does fine the whole time 👍

[@golddust5778]

@@IdeaSpot But you were serving blank pages? 4kB per page. Seems a little far from 200Mb even with all the overheads.

[@IdeaSpot]

@@golddust5778 no, for loader io it was a template site pulling around 2.3GB over the 1min test which seemed to be enough to cause some bottlenecking, but really though if a site is that popular I'd be thinking more about what color mercedes to buy rather than my $5-10 VPS 😂😂

[@golddust5778]

@@IdeaSpot Oh ok!! Thanks for the clarification. Because I couldn't quite put my finger on it. That sounds about right!!! Nothing inherently wrong with the contabo servers and I think it's great value. Cheers!

[@mabhishek1975]

Hello Alex, great video having such information. Can you make video on Cyber panel awsS3 backup. Thanks

[@3drenders_]

cool!! So is Contabo the right place if i want to stream 10-20 live streams 24/7, 7 days a week?

[@slimjaydaniel9775]

Hi Did you later optin for contabo for your live streams?

[@3drenders_]

@@slimjaydaniel9775 no it didnt work...

[@thedanyesful]

Great video. Super cool that you ran all those benchmarks.

[@adityar981]

Thanks man, now pls make a video on Oracle cloud free ARM instance.

[@bloggeromarfaroque]

Ok

[@IdeaSpot]

yes I'll have a look when I get a chance

[@कनिष्क-घ9थ]

How good contabo VPS uptime is?

[@gomgop]

I used Contabo's service for more than two months before they claimed that my virtual private server had a virus and asked to arbitrarily terminate it. They then demanded that I pay an additional service cost of 34.05 dollars to reopen the virtual private server. My virtual private server, however, just uses it for personal purposes and does not access or download any malicious software. To reopen the VPS, this company made me pay the aforementioned price. There is no method for me to recover my deleted data. Beware of this type of deception if you discover that Contabo offers a cheap virtual private server service you can utilize. It's a fraud.

[@estrelassort6161]

can i use this on forex trading?

[@womenisthebest682]

I want to create some proxy v4 from VPS, about 10 proxies from 1 VPS, Somebody tell me how can i do this, please !!!

[@vincentchen2938]

What about Contabo compared to Hetzner?

[@crispenmlambo6592]

this vps always shuts down and you find all your apps closed

[@Tech2coolyt]

is contabo good for csgo & cs1.6 game server Hosting?

[@SweatyFeetGirl]

more than enough. most csgo servers on faceit and co are hosted on 10+year old xeon servers. contabo hosts on Epyc 7282 processors which are really great

[@ikennamanagwu9646]

I have a question... I want to know if their service actually does offer redundancy and load balancing just in case of down time or do you have to set that up your self... I ask because I've had bad experiences with this.

[@WhatAboutRC]

In its defence no one having a website that gets 500 users/s is going to be getting the cheapest VPS available... or even a VPS for that matter.

[@IdeaSpot]

well, thats a blank site test 500/s, really it would be more like 50/s for a larger production site but for sure that is still high and Contabo will work well for a lot of projects for sure.

[@sahilbhat4493]

Bro have you bought any order from Contabo? My order is pending since 10hrs?

[@WhatAboutRC]

@@sahilbhat4493 Yea mine took about 3 hours. May wanna try and contact them.

[@sahilbhat4493]

@@WhatAboutRCalready done. No reply yet bro 😔

[@amigoface]

cool, thanks for the share

[@CoachGarcia]

Can you please make a video on how to use it with open vpn

[@HASSANBENYAMINE]

I've been using contabo for 6 months, and it didn't really work with me, Alex can you please make a review about Monovm would appreciate that 🎉

[@theChristshow1]

Cotambo and ulta which one is great

[@IdeaSpot]

I didn't try Ulta - but Contabo is a great choice for sure

[@bnftyh5502]

what about dadicated vps ?

[@bloggeromarfaroque]

Wellcome

[@IdeaSpot]

Thanks for watching 😀

[@sunjayjangam]

Which hosting provider is best?

[@Moodboard39]

No such thing as best . Depend what u doing ..and how many clients u have

[@kunalgrover7125]

Alex, there support is really Bad, been 3 days my server is down, no uptime commitment from their side, Business Suffering a lot, websites are down, E-commerce websites are down, Team is sitting Ideal what to do, No where to go

[@henryramoch148]

Hello contabo they verify identity so the asked for In addition to the above please also send us a document that proves the address. This could be: 1. A scan of your passport, driving license or national identity card. 2. A scan of your telephone, electricity, or any other utility bill as long as it contains your name and the address mentioned above. that is little not good from them .

[@RENKOEAMT4]

How reliable for forex VPS because weekday downtime will mess up the Bot.

[@jamesT008]

I am using contabo but overall performance is not unto the specification provided. Cost is way big winning factor. Issue noticed is initial loading time is much more but once its up then performance get improved. If process is idle then waking up takes more time. Overall Not Much satisfied.

[@moeabdo3114]

Super big like man your amazing 💖

[@IdeaSpot]

Thanks 🙏

[@moeabdo3114]

@@IdeaSpot hey .. can you make a video about Mautic and WordPress On the same 6$ Vultr paln .. Plz🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️

[@Novica89]

Being able to host 80 WP sites vs "only 10" on other hosts in terms of memory does not mean much in practice as for each website you're essentially using everything else that the server limits you to: bandwidth, stream speed, CPU's etc etc. So on paper you COULD host 80 WP sites in terms of memory but since you're using not just memory, but everything else for each website hosted, it's not even close to 80.

[@walemara]

Very well done. Great videos

[@jarethtamtech4048]

thanks a lot!

[@shiriajin]

I have been using contabo for years. Their technology is great, their billing department however, is terrible. They don't over charge you or anything but they always deduct monthly even though I called them repeatedly and asked to be charged annually.

[@sparkforme22]

you can manually prepay them, i just i dont like the maintenance downtime on contabo? have u experienced the same?

[@shiriajin]

@@sparkforme22 well, they usually email their scheduled maintenance if your server is expected to have one. But they had two downtimes in the past two weeks without warning. Granted it was only a few minutes but that’s ages in internet time

[@WarcosTec]

Nice video!

[@IdeaSpot]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@yasinedr]

So vultr is the best

[@gerhardengel844]

OpenVPN performance is great. better than OVH VPS

[@IdeaSpot]

nice, thanks for sharing!

[@kidpsykie4170]

I am trying to get into Forex trading with an EA bot which VPS do you think would be best for this type of services?

[@BAN-KAI-ANIME]

After approximately 5 hours, my VPS has not been sent yet

[@shekhar436]

Contabo is actually average as compared to Digital Ocean. Their hardware is actually on just web specs table but eventually you will feel lots of performance difference when compared to same spec vps from GC, AWS, DO

[@sakthi22b.e]

If you go far dedicated VPS plan then the performance will be good on any providers.

[@Moodboard39]

What kills me the setup fee. Probably try vultr

[@tecnopadre]

Very helpful. Thank you

[@khaledmokhtar1]

vpsbenchmarks test contabo with ssd not nvme

[@Raiz-ev5br]

Is it fester than AWS Lightsail?

[@salemyaslem9792]

about traffic you are wrong 32TB monthly traffic mean 100Mbps but they give you 200Mbps

[@yahyaTube]

الترافيك هو كمية النقل المسموح بها للملفات وهي 32 تيرا (يعني مفتوحة) / اما ال 200Mbps فهي سرعة التحميل

[@salemyaslem9792]

I mean the speed match the traffic, if he use the speed 24/7 he will exceed 32Tb traffic, that mean they didn't make any trick in it that make it pricing is fake

[@yahyaTube]

@@salemyaslem9792 I did not think of it in this arithmetic form, but this is true for the first plan only.

[@mrtango5003]

Now they are charging extra 20% vat

[@TheJevl123]

There is now no charge for using US servers :)

[@_pebbled4741]

When i try to ssh into the system it says the connection timed out

[@jonlewis8932]

happens often with contabo, they are a joke in the industry

[@garrettstevensen2467]

First!!! :-)

[@IdeaSpot]

😅 its a small channel but ok

[@hghgghgghghg6540]

All ips blacklisted

[@H-QUICK]

this company asking for id passport and proof addressee ....