Contabo review
Hosting and serversGerman VPS and dedicated servers with generous RAM and storage at a very low price, for users comfortable managing their own unmanaged server.
- Uptime it promises99,9 %
- Money-back window14 days
The $5.28/month for Cloud VPS 4 applies only when prepaying a 24-month term; paying month-to-month the same plan costs $6.60/month. Contabo does not publish a separate renewal price after that period.
Contabo GmbH is a German provider headquartered in Munich, founded in 2003, specialising in "Cloud VPS" virtual servers, dedicated servers and storage VPS. It suits people who need plenty of RAM and disk space for little money and who are comfortable administering a Linux or Windows server without a cPanel-style control panel: full root access, with no management or support for whatever software the customer installs.
Contabo runs 11 locations across 9 regions: Germany, the United States (East, Central and West), the United Kingdom, Singapore, Japan, Australia and India. The advertised entry price requires prepaying a 24-month term; paying month to month for the same plan costs more. Traffic is marketed as "unlimited" but is subject to a fair-use policy: Contabo reserves the right to throttle servers with "exceptionally high or disruptive" usage. Automatic backup is a paid add-on, not included by default. Technical support covers the VPS itself, the network and the hardware, but not the maintenance of any additional software the customer installs. Contabo advertises 99.9% uptime on the VPS product page, though its general corporate site separately cites a 99.996% figure without specifying the period it covers. The 14-day refund window corresponds to the EU's statutory right of withdrawal rather than a marketed satisfaction guarantee.
Features
- Hosting types
- Control panel
- Contabo's own panel
- Data centres
- 11
- Countries with a data centre
- Uptime it promises
- 99,9 %
- Domain included
- Backups
- Daily, as a paid add-on
- Root access
- Money-back window
- 14 days
- Support
- 24/7 by phone and tickets
IP ranges it operates
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Contabo
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