Contabo VPS Plans Review
Contabo was founded in 2003.
It is headquartered in Germany.
It offers Web, Dedicated and VPS hosting products.
- Germany
Features and Usability
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
Last updated on August 23 2019.
| Feature | Value | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly Billing | No | |
| DDOS Protection | Yes | Included in server price. https://contabo.com/?show=ddos_protection |
| Backups | Yes | Snapshots are available for free. |
| Control Panel | custom | |
| SSH Keys Setup | No | |
| Total Number of Datacenters | 2 | |
| Number of Datacenter Continents | 1 | |
| Monitoring Charts | No | No chart. |
| Admin REST API | No | |
| Upgrade VPS from admin console | No | |
| Mobile Friendly UI | No | |
| Reverse DNS | Yes | |
| Accepted Forms of Payment | Paypal, bank transfers, Skrilla | |
| Hidden CPU Model | No | |
| Affiliate Program | Yes | |
| Firewall | No |
In VPSBenchmark's opinion
Contabo Extra Services
In addition to features included in the VPS plan, Contabo also offers the following services (possibly for a fee):
| Backups | Block storage | Object storage | Load balancer | Floating IP addresses |
| Teams | Managed databases | Serverless | DDoS protection | Kubernetes |
| GPU instances |
VPS Instance Provisioning Time
For each Contabo VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server.
See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.
| Average Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2140s | 1200s | 3900s | 3 |
Admin UI Screenshots
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The Screener shows all Contabo plans side by side with their grades in 5 categories.
Contabo Plans
Plan Specifications
| URL | https://contabo.com/?show=vps |
|---|---|
| Price per month | €3.99 ($4.43) |
| Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
No |
| Disk GB | 300 |
| Num Cores | 2 |
| Memory GB | 4.0 |
| Hourly Billing | No |
| Virtualization | KVM |
| Data Transfer GB | Unlimited |
| Burstable CPU | No |
| Dedicated CPU | No |
Plan Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 35
Performance Test Results
We conducted 5 different types of tests during the latest trial for Contabo - VPS 300. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Performance trials run on the VPS 300 plan
This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the VPS 300 plan and the web response times for every one of those.
| Start of Trial | CPU | Overall Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 03 2019 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz | D |
Plan Specifications
| URL | https://contabo.com/?show=configurator&vserver_id=221 |
|---|---|
| Price per month | €4.99 ($5.54) |
| Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
No |
| Disk GB | 200 |
| Num Cores | 4 |
| Memory GB | 8.0 |
| Hourly Billing | No |
| Virtualization | KVM |
| Data Transfer GB | Unlimited |
| Burstable CPU | No |
| Dedicated CPU | No |
Plan Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 33
Performance Test Results
We conducted 5 different types of tests during the latest trial for Contabo - S SSD. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Performance trials run on the S SSD plan
This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the S SSD plan and the web response times for every one of those.
| Start of Trial | CPU | Overall Grade |
|---|---|---|
| May 07 2019 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v3 @ 2.40GHz | E |
Plan Specifications
| URL | https://contabo.com/?show=vps |
|---|---|
| Price per month | €8.99 ($9.98) |
| Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
No |
| Disk GB | 400 |
| Num Cores | 6 |
| Memory GB | 16.0 |
| Hourly Billing | No |
| Virtualization | KVM |
| Data Transfer GB | Unlimited |
| Burstable CPU | No |
| Dedicated CPU | No |
Plan Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 49
Performance Test Results
We conducted 6 different types of tests during the latest trial for Contabo - M SSD. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Performance trials run on the M SSD plan
This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the M SSD plan and the web response times for every one of those.
| Start of Trial | CPU | Overall Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 31 2020 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz | D |
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