Contabo.com - Hosting overview
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Based in Germany, Contabo started late back in 2003 by the name “Giga-International” eventually outgrowing the initial German market, aiming towards being in line with their name, strangely so changing it “Contabo” as we know it. Having served over 120 000 satisfied customers, Contabo is a strong competitor on the market. Their servers are located in the US, Europe, and Asia.
Overview
Contabo presents its customer with a full package of hosting solutions, Shared web, VPS/VDS, and Dedicated servers variations, you name it. German quality is the de facto motto of the company, as they are indeed proud of it.
They quickly adopted NVMe SSDs, increasing the performance of their servers tenfold. You can use a FAQ or tutorial section of the site if that’s your jam or you don’t want to bother tech support much.
Support
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Support department can be reached only by phone or email, and their working hours as stated on the website are 8 AM to 1 PM CET. And it is an average of 2 hours to deal with just above any kind of question, depending on the difficulty. I’ve decided to test that and send an email during the working hours of the support department, got it filled with some tech questions of various degrees, and eventually got a compelling, detailed response in less than one hour.
I’ve sent an email with some basic questions and got a reply after 1 hour. The reply was filled with compelling answers regarding all of the questions.
Contabo doesn’t rely on bots, instead of using real people to help customers.
Reliability
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Contabo, being a user-oriented company as well as a german one means a lot of security measures, standards, and stability.
They utilize 3 “Pillars of security” described on their site, and these are: Physical security, protecting the location in question, through the means of CCTV monitoring, restricting access, and “Special Process” that is not specified
Involving customers in security, insisting on 2FA, and raising security awareness.
Along with mentioned measures, they support RAID array and include DDoS protection.
User Friendly
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Security measures aside, a great deal of performance and stability comes from the fact that Contabo uses top-notch hardware and software to ensure that
The company provides a great deal of customization to each of their plans, so you could fine-tune the hardware for your needs specifically.
Every plan comes with Contabo’s auto-installer software, allowing clients to 1-click install anything they want, from a CMS platform to shop systems.
Contabo offers a free Webmin control panel, as well as paid ones (Plesk and cPanel) and support for LAMP stack and Docker.
Server support any Unix based OS as well as Windows.
Features
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Contabo offers an affiliate program, so you could get some share from advertising Contabo services, but you’d have to complete a complex registration before jumping into.
- Unlimited incoming traffic, you don’t have to pay extra;
- NVMe SSD support;
- HyperThread support for VDS;
- A GPU can be installed for a dedicated server;
- Every customer is treated the same.
Pricing
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Cheap prices are one of the main goals of Contabo and indeed their prices are lower than the market average, and all of that with a superb level of quality and performance. You can start using a VPS for as low as 6.99$.
Although, you’d have to pay for extra features like backup space, management/monitoring services, and an SSL certificate.
A refund can be made during 4 weeks after purchase.
Payment can be made in USD or EUR and through systems of PayPal or American Express, and through a bank card.
Shared Hosting
$2.99 - $9.99VPS Hosting
$5.99 - $119.99Plan | Drive | CPU | RAM | OS | Panel | Price |
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S NVMe | 50 GB | 4 | 8 GB | $6.99 | ||
M NVMe | 100 GB | 6 | 16 GB | $11.99 | ||
Virtual Dedicated Server S | 180 GB | 3 x 2.8 GHz | 24 GB | $49.99 | ||
S SSD | 200 GB | 4 | 8 GB | $6.99 | ||
L NVMe | 200 GB | 8 | 30 GB | $19.99 | ||
Virtual Dedicated Server M | 240 GB | 4 x 2.8 GHz | 32 GB | $59.99 | ||
300 | 300 GB | 2 | 4 GB | $5.99 | ||
Virtual Dedicated Server L | 360 GB | 6 x 2.8 GHz | 48 GB | $89.99 | ||
M SSD | 400 GB | 6 | 16 GB | $11.99 | ||
XL NVMe | 400 GB | 10 | 60 GB | $34.99 | ||
Virtual Dedicated Server XL | 480 GB | 8 x 2.8 GHz | 64 GB | $119.99 | ||
700 | 700 GB | 4 | 10 GB | $10.99 | ||
L SSD | 800 GB | 8 | 30 GB | $19.99 | ||
1400 | 1 TB | 6 | 20 GB | $16.99 | ||
XL SSD | 1 TB | 10 | 60 GB | $34.99 |
Dedicated Server
$169.99 - $229.99Plan | Cores | Threads | CPU | RAM | Drive | Price |
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Intel Xeon E5 2630v4 | 10 | 10 | 2.2 GHz | 256 GB | 3 TB | $169.99 |
2 x AMD EPYC 7282 | 16 | 16 | 2.8 GHz | 256 GB | 3 TB | $229.99 |
AMD EPYC 7282 | 16 | 16 | 2.8 GHz | 256 GB | 3 TB | $229.99 |
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Contabo is a fitting hosting company for anyone, be it a business or just a solopreneur, everyone is treated the same both in support and in pricing.
German standards all the way definitely makes this company stand out.
Completing FAQ and tutorials will help users familiarize themselves with the service.
Pros
- NVMe SSD drives;
- Both cheap and powerful servers;
- Security is a main priority;
- VPS hosting comes with unlimited incoming traffic.
Cons
- Many additional features have to be paid for;
- No free SSL certificate;
- Support response time could be lengthy.
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