Compare Provider Features

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Datacenter Countries

The selected providers have datacenters in the following countries.

Contabo Vultr
Australia
Germany
Japan
Singapore
United Kingdom
United States
Australia
Brazil
Canada
Chile
France
Germany
India
Israel
Japan
Mexico
Netherlands
Poland
Singapore
South Africa
South Korea
Sweden
United Kingdom
United States

Features and Usability

Features not included in the VPS price in plans tested at vpsbenchmarks.com will be marked as missing.

Contabo Vultr
Hourly Billing  No Yes
DDOS Protection  Yes No
Backups  Yes No
Control Panel  custom Builtin
SSH Keys Setup  Yes Yes
Total Number of Datacenters  12 31
Number of Datacenter Continents  4 5
Monitoring Charts  No Yes
Admin REST API  Yes Yes
Upgrade VPS from admin console  Yes Yes
Mobile Friendly UI  No Yes
Reverse DNS  Yes Yes
Accepted Forms of Payment  Credit cards, Paypal, bank transfers, Skrilla Paypal, credit card, crypto, Alipay
Hidden CPU Model  No Yes
Affiliate Program  Yes Yes
IPv6 support  No Yes
Firewall  No Yes
Shelving  No No

Extra Services

Those services are offered by providers independently of their cloud servers.

Contabo Vultr
Backups  -  Instance backups or snapshots
Block storage  -  Allocate storage volumes independently of instances and attach them to instances of your choice
Object storage  -  Data storage for objects, individual files with API access
Load balancer  -  Distribute traffic across set of instances
Floating IP addresses  -  Allocate IP addresses independently of instances and attach them to instances of your choice
Team Management  -  Management of users who are authorized to handle resources in your account
Managed databases  -  Managed databases such as MySQL, Postgresql, Aurora, ...
Serverless  -  Deploy code as functions and let the provider manage where the code runs
DDoS protection  -  Distributed Denial of Service protection
Kubernetes  -  Management of Docker containers
GPU instances  -  GPU instances to run your AI workload
Private network  -  Use private IP addresses to communicate between your own instances at this provider

Stengths & Weaknesses

Strengths Weaknesses
Contabo
  • Modern EPYC CPUs in all VDS servers.
  • Setup fee on all new instances.
  • Management UI has the minimum set of features.
Vultr
  • Fast and modern UI.
  • Large choice of datacenters.
  • Large choice of instance types.

Performance Comparisons

Compare the performance of the 2 selected providers.

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