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They need attract buyers to their product by provide better prices and specs than everyone else.
hetzner also ?
Yes - Contabo, Hetzner, OVH, Online.net, Vultr, DO, Linode doing that scheme very well
They just oversell My VPS works really well.
The cores are not dedicated. The support is A+.
Do you have SSD or HDD? Not sure what to pick, if it is worthy to go with HDD (comparing prices)
There was a discussion about Contabo a few weeks ago with some benchmarks if that's any help
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/2879364
I have HDD and it's just the regular 100 MB/s speed. I hear that if you're unhappy with HDD speed, you can ask to be moved to another node.
Grabbed a VPS 300 just this morning. I must say I'm impressed for the price I'm paying. Sometimes the network seems to black out, but only if I put a huge load onto it (was rsyncing data from OVH over to Contabo). Doesn't look badly oversold to me, performance is okay, with writes at around 50 MB/s at worst (most of the times it's at 100 MB/s).
Using it for Nextcloud and some other selfhosted stuff with the 300 GB of storage it comes with, and it's working beautifully for now. Much faster than the KS-1 I was using for this purpose and it's less expensive too.
They oversell but not too much I guess till it impacts performance
They had a quite bad reputation a few years ago. I have the impression they've gotten better since then, but I haven't cared enough to find out for sure. Easier to use dedis if you want lots of resources.
Most of them are paid reviews you find in the hostadvice or whatever review site you find.
I've been investigating them for quite a long time, they seem to oversell much and they provide no refunds even if it's an hour of use and even if you're not satisfied with the performance. Better avoid them.
My experience with them, so far, is quite different.
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CPU model : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v3 @ 2.40GHz
Number of cores : 2
CPU frequency : 2399.996 MHz
Total size of Disk : 294.9 GB (95.1 GB Used)
Total amount of Mem : 3955 MB (1270 MB Used)
Total amount of Swap : 0 MB (0 MB Used)
System uptime : 0 days, 23 hour 41 min
Load average : 0.06, 0.16, 0.17
OS : Debian GNU/Linux 9
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 4.9.0-8-amd64
I/O speed(1st run) : 97.7 MB/s
I/O speed(2nd run) : 98.9 MB/s
I/O speed(3rd run) : 101 MB/s
Average I/O speed : 99.2 MB/s
Node Name IPv4 address Download Speed
CacheFly 205.234.175.175 11.6MB/s
Linode, Tokyo, JP 106.187.96.148 7.39MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG 139.162.23.4 4.92MB/s
Linode, London, UK 176.58.107.39 11.7MB/s
Linode, Frankfurt, DE 139.162.130.8 11.8MB/s
Linode, Fremont, CA 50.116.14.9 7.35MB/s
Softlayer, Dallas, TX 173.192.68.18 9.54MB/s
Softlayer, Seattle, WA 67.228.112.250 9.31MB/s
Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE 159.122.69.4 11.8MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG 119.81.28.170 7.72MB/s
Softlayer, HongKong, CN 119.81.130.170 8.74MB/s
Node Name IPv6 address Download Speed
Linode, Atlanta, GA 2600:3c02::4b 10.5MB/s
Linode, Dallas, TX 2600:3c00::4b 4.60MB/s
Linode, Newark, NJ 2600:3c03::4b 11.0MB/s
Linode, Singapore, SG 2400:8901::4b 6.58MB/s
Linode, Tokyo, JP 2400:8900::4b 8.06MB/s
Softlayer, San Jose, CA 2607:f0d0:2601:2a::4 6.86MB/s
Softlayer, Washington, WA 2607:f0d0:3001:78::2 5.49MB/s
Softlayer, Paris, FR 2a03:8180:1301:8::4 10.1MB/s
Softlayer, Singapore, SG 2401:c900:1101:8::2 6.41MB/s
Softlayer, Tokyo, JP 2401:c900:1001:16::4 6.59MB/s
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Not really. I have been using it myself for some serious purpose and its worth the price. Don't judge them by their past which i also used to do before but then i myself tested the service, it was different. Even suggested few of my friends to buy from them and their experience is also good.
I agree that they don't refund but its mentioned in their terms, one wouldn't mind paying few euros for a single month.
Support is also good and responsive, had few problems in beginning but they all sorted it up for me.
Could anyone do a geekbench benchmark and nench.sh too?
I am so intrigued to see their current performance.
As they usually offer higher ram speeds on the cheapest offers, I'd also love to see the ram speed.
sysbench --test=memory --memory-block-size=1M --memory-block-size=8G
Thanks.
Sure, here you go. I can run another benchmark if you want, just point me to it. As it's not a production system I don't really mind running them.
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/2881318/#Comment_2881318
I did some benchmarks a while back and this is with the cheapest SDD one.
Thanks guys.
Looks like the ram speed is capped or a DDR 3 one, maybe it's usual as it is.
Btw, please do these benchmarks too
(curl -s wget.racing/nench.sh | bash; curl -s wget.racing/nench.sh | bash) 2>&1 | tee nench.log
And Geekbench
I'm honestly not sure. Experiences between HDD and SSD plans may differ, as I'm on HDD.
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/10296542
Thanks for that. What was your plan tho? For an HDD those speeds are pretty good. But the processing speed is little bit on the downside. So you're on a 100 Mbits plan?
You're most welcome. I'm on the VPS300 plan, the 3.99 euro one as listed here on the left: https://contabo.com/?show=vps.
It comes with 100 Mbit, ssd plans come with 200 or more. The top HDD plan comes with 1000 Mbit.
VPS S SSD 4.99 EUR / month
second test after sequential write speed fix, you have to email support
Just ordered a HDD one, hopefully it is worth the price, I was about to buy the SSD one but wanted to save the money.
How much do they take to deliver it? most companies do it automatically.
If you buy for the first time, you must send your ID, After verification, they will activate the VPS server, each new order will be delivered much faster. I got servers within 1 hour. I was very pleased with them ..
i'm new and they didn't ask me for ID
I did not have to show my ID. Setup took 1 day (weekend).
Cancel the VPS right away (cancellation period). If you want to keep it, un-cancel it.
Check https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/107757/contabo-review-vps-m-ssd/p1
Got mine:
[root@ ~]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync
16384+0 records in
16384+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 7.52704 s, 143 MB/s
[root@~]# wget freevps.us/downloads/bench.sh -O - -o /dev/null|bash
Benchmark started on Sat Oct 13 13:45:40 CEST 2018
Full benchmark log: /root/bench.log
System Info
Processor : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v3 @ 2.40GHz
CPU Cores : 6
Frequency : 2399.998 MHz
Memory : 19916 MB
Swap : MB
Uptime : 1:14,
OS : \S
Arch : x86_64 (64 Bit)
Kernel : 3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64
Hostname :
Speedtest (IPv4 only)
Your public IPv4 is 207.180.218.195
Location Provider Speed
CDN Cachefly 46.1MB/s
Atlanta, GA, US Coloat 1.33MB/s
Dallas, TX, US Softlayer 7.92MB/s
Seattle, WA, US Softlayer 7.09MB/s
San Jose, CA, US Softlayer 9.85MB/s
Washington, DC, US Softlayer 13.0MB/s
Tokyo, Japan Linode 2.63MB/s
Singapore Softlayer 5.63MB/s
Rotterdam, Netherlands id3.net 16.6MB/s
Haarlem, Netherlands Leaseweb 19.7MB/s
Disk Speed
I/O (1st run) : 112 MB/s
I/O (2nd run) : 107 MB/s
I/O (3rd run) : 108 MB/s
Average I/O : 109 MB/s
Hello everyone, I am from China and want to buy this VPS, but I do not know how fast the visit is in China. Is there any good Samaritan who can provide a website link for me to test? Thank you