Contabo

[TPerry]

I have been evaluating a Contabo CloudVPS 1 offering. I have placed a few websites on it (one being my personal blog and the other being a friends [link removed] that I host since he is funds deficient due to circumstances out of his control).
One of the things that I have noticed about the Contabo website using the standard SSD drive option. They do severely throttle the throughput on the drives.
I do not know if this is consistent on the NVMe drive option as I really have no great interest in trying different offering since my niche (and my concerns) are not in regular comparisons.
I do know that the drive throughput was much higher on the Hetzner server they were hosted on before. And that VPS instance uses SSD drives and not NVMe.

But honestly.. it's hard to expect world-class performance out of a 4vCPU/6GB/400GB VPS instance that is only costing less than $6 USD a month compared to a 4vCPU/88GB/160GB instance that is costing almost 3 times as much.

So far, the Contabo server has been stable with no down time. But the sites have only been running on it for about 1 month.
For a low end VPS provider, I would go far as to say that Contabo would be a decent choice... but I have had read horror stories about down-time an dslow responses from them. But so far I have not had any experience with that.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I was browsing the vps subreddit yesterday and noticed that someone was complaining about downtime. I've seen quite a few people mention that Contabo is not reliable, but everyone is going to have different experiences with services. I'm glad it's been working well for you!

 

[Cedric]

There’s always one that complains, and contabo has a lot of clients. Even I had some troubles, downtime several times in the beginning, but they resolved that quickly and since then never happened again unless I fuck up myself. 😂

 

[TPerry]

That was the thing that concerned (and concerns) me.
I am also contemplating getting one of them just to set up a simple mail server on, but I have a feeling their IP reputation is not going to be the best in the world.

 

[TPerry]

There’s always one that complains, and contabo has a lot of clients. Even I had some troubles, downtime several times in the beginning, but they resolved that quickly and since then never happened again unless I fuck up myself. 😂

Yes, you do have to know what you are doing as it is really easy to screw the pooch on administering a Linux box if you don't.
That's one of the reasons I am evaluating it. The disk throughput is definitely throttled, but that's probably as much due to loading their servers up with as many clients and trying to keep the speed somewhat reasonable as anything.
You can't expect a lot for $6USD.
The one I used to recommend got sold out and I know that their VPS instances became somewhat problematic.