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 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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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...
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%
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 ?
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
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...
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
@@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.
@@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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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 .
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?
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
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 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
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
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?!
@@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 😂😂
@@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!
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.
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
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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.
hello bro. can I install obs on ubuntu? For live streaming
@@onlinealarmonline_alarm8256 you can install whatever you want. You have root user
@@JJFernandezA I will try it I want to make a live stream 24/7 on my music channel
@@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
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!!
Haha it was a lot of work actually glad u liked it
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.
Much appreciated! yes I wanted to put extra work into this, since it seems so cheap, I was wondering how is it possible...
@@IdeaSpot Yea, i thought the same, CHEERS MATE !!
Contabo are a terrible VPS provider. IdeaSpot is a shill pushing shoddy serves for unknown reasons, probably money.
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.
I use Vultr for years, I have no complains at all.
Me too 👍
Okay thanks
Great video. Thanks Alex. Loved the detailed comparisons for everything (processor, traffic, etc)
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
thanks Ned
Bro have you bought any order from Contabo?
My order is pending since 10hrs?
@@sahilbhat4493 No. He sneaked into their data center and stole a VPS, hiding it in a tiny Altoids metal box.
@@starfox-germany Lol.. You ruthless bro... Lmao
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.
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.
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?
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..
Thank you! Excellent resource for server load testing. 👍
Thanks Paul 👍
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.
Good idea 👍
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...
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%
Same for me I recently changed yo Monovm
Absolutely thorough research! Thanks a ton! 🙏
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
Contano has too many maintenance schedules. The VPS is unreachable when they do maintenance.
@@dashwoo706 Not sure this is true, My contabo VPS has been up solid for 236 days? I'm US Central.
@@ParallaxOnline I see
Thanks Alex was waiting for it . Writing it before even seeing the video 😂
Thanks Mohit 😅
My experience with Contabo was disappointing. I purchased a VPS over a year ago, which did not perform as advertised.
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 ?
Bro have you bought any order from Contabo?
My order is pending since 10hrs?
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.
Thanks for the honest, grounded review.
I love contabo vps hosting plans. Thanks
Great dig and analysis. Thanks.
love your videos to be honest so useful 👏
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
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...
True, is a very rough guide - a large busy woocommerce will need a lot more 👍
Bro have you bought any order from Contabo?
My VPS order is pending since 10hrs?
May I know which hosting provider you are using?
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?
This is great, could you also do a similar video on Hetzner?
thank you for the video, Can you create a video about (how to be able to use the additional storage space for VPS)?
thanks for sharing, i am using Contabo too.
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.
Then you'll need a dedicated server not vps
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.
A very detailed comparison. Thanks for this. Can I ask - why do you use Vultr in New Jersey and not Sydney? Cheers.
Glad I didn't change from Vultr to Contabo.
🤣🤣
great video, I learnt a lot from you... thank you so much
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.
Oh true - if you need support better try somewhere else 😅
@@IdeaSpot I read on reviews that they ask for 25€ for 15 minutes of support!
@@alexio6205 pfft . Better go to somewhere else
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
Thank you so much for the information
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
Brilliant content as always thanks
Great video! I have only one question though. free cyber panel limits you to only 2 GB of ram If i am not wrong.
The limit is for litespeed enterprise , so we used openlitespeed here which is unlimited 👍
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?
It was the AMD
@@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.
@@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.
Hey please make a video how to add domain and how to install WordPress free contabo
great video, very interesting and informative. Thank You
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.
Vultr HF is really good...
Thank you Alex for this vid. I wished you've included Linode.
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
Great video! May i ask which software you use for graphs reporting?
Thanks in advance!
Excel 🤣
@@IdeaSpot Amazing 😂😂
Great research. thanks for the info
i'd love to see you setup gameservers and see the performacne difference
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.
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
Thanks for the advice
Do you know if several people can log into VULTR VM at the same time?For thing like training?
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 🎉
Great video. Super cool that you ran all those benchmarks.
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.
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
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.
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.
Bro have you bought any order from Contabo?
My order is pending since 10hrs?
@@sahilbhat4493 Yea mine took about 3 hours. May wanna try and contact them.
@@WhatAboutRCalready done.
No reply yet bro 😔
cool!! So is Contabo the right place if i want to stream 10-20 live streams 24/7, 7 days a week?
Hi
Did you later optin for contabo for your live streams?
@@slimjaydaniel9775 no it didnt work...
this vps always shuts down and you find all your apps closed
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
How reliable for forex VPS because weekday downtime will mess up the Bot.
Hello Alex, great video having such information. Can you make video on Cyber panel awsS3 backup. Thanks
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 .
Please do a review of Ionos
cool, thanks for the share
Thanks man, now pls make a video on Oracle cloud free ARM instance.
Ok
yes I'll have a look when I get a chance
Hi sir, how to host multiples php site on single vps contabo?
How good contabo VPS uptime is?
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?
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
can i use this on forex trading?
Can you please make a video on how to use it with open vpn
Cotambo and ulta which one is great
I didn't try Ulta - but Contabo is a great choice for sure
I want to create some proxy v4 from VPS, about 10 proxies from 1 VPS, Somebody tell me how can i do this, please !!!
What about Contabo compared to Hetzner?
is contabo good for csgo & cs1.6 game server Hosting?
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
can you run games bot to farm here for the 24/7?
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.
you can manually prepay them, i just i dont like the maintenance downtime on contabo? have u experienced the same?
@@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
thanks a lot!
Which hosting provider is best?
No such thing as best . Depend what u doing ..and how many clients u have
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
If you go far dedicated VPS plan then the performance will be good on any providers.
What kills me the setup fee. Probably try vultr
Super big like man your amazing 💖
Thanks 🙏
@@IdeaSpot hey .. can you make a video about Mautic and WordPress On the same 6$ Vultr paln .. Plz🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️
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?!
It’s a network port speed limit we are hitting - the cpu does fine the whole time 👍
@@IdeaSpot But you were serving blank pages? 4kB per page. Seems a little far from 200Mb even with all the overheads.
@@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 😂😂
@@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!
what about dadicated vps ?
After approximately 5 hours, my VPS has not been sent yet
Wellcome
Thanks for watching 😀
So vultr is the best
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.
about traffic you are wrong
32TB monthly traffic mean 100Mbps
but they give you 200Mbps
الترافيك هو كمية النقل المسموح بها للملفات وهي 32 تيرا (يعني مفتوحة) / اما ال 200Mbps فهي سرعة التحميل
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
@@salemyaslem9792 I did not think of it in this arithmetic form, but this is true for the first plan only.
Very well done. Great videos
OpenVPN performance is great. better than OVH VPS
nice, thanks for sharing!
vpsbenchmarks test contabo with ssd not nvme
Very helpful. Thank you
Nice video!
Glad you enjoyed it
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?
Now they are charging extra 20% vat
Contabo's vps are really slow. It was fine 2 months ago.
Their support is terrible-there's no way to contact them when your server goes down without any prior notice.
There is now no charge for using US servers :)
All ips blacklisted
this company asking for id passport and proof addressee ....
Is it fester than AWS Lightsail?