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CONTABO - high performance 8 cores ssd vps BENCHMARK

miumiu Member
edited February 2021 in Reviews

I have decided try to do business with Contabo and prepaid for 3 months their "High performance SSD VPS"

VPS L SSD
€14.99 / month
8 vCPU Cores
30 GB RAM
100% Fast SSD Included

Here is benchmark of this VPS what i got - do your own opinion pls

On the left is Contabo VPS vs. on the right similar VPS from another provider
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Feel free for share your opinions, thanks.

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  • contabo ...

  • miumiu Member
    edited February 2021

    @cociu said:
    contabo ...

    https://contabo.com/en/vps/

    6 Reasons to Buy a VPS with Contabo
    
     Focused on providing German Quality
    
    Since founding in 2003 Contabo is committed to provide German quality 
    in every aspect of our business. 
    

    Now i have tested this quality on own expriences :+1:
    .

  • Don't expect to get the some performance you got from the other provider with every new provider you order from !

    Because each provider allocate different limits and also it depends on the node load ( how many customers in that node ) so don't expect high end VPS with low price it won't work !

    If you want dedicated resources , better to order dedicated server !

  • @momkin said:
    Don't expect to get the some performance you got from the other provider with every new provider you order from !

    Because each provider allocate different limits and also it depends on the node load ( how many customers in that node ) so don't expect high end VPS with low price it won't work !

    If you want dedicated resources , better to order dedicated server !

    Are u normal??
    Do you have feel that Multi core CPU is health limit and OK?
    Also SSD?

  • seriesnseriesn Member
    edited February 2021

    @miu said:

    @momkin said:
    Don't expect to get the some performance you got from the other provider with every new provider you order from !

    Because each provider allocate different limits and also it depends on the node load ( how many customers in that node ) so don't expect high end VPS with low price it won't work !

    If you want dedicated resources , better to order dedicated server !

    Are u normal??
    Do you have feel that Multi core CPU is health limit and OK?
    Also SSD?

    Did you pop in a ticket asking them why is it low?

    There’s a major chance that they impose artificial limits :). They have done that with their ssd for ages and usually removes the limit upon ticket. Also 30GB ram for 15 per month, it should be given that the performance will be sub par boss. It is cheap for a reason.

    Thanked by 3ariq01 bulbasaur RIYAD
  • miumiu Member
    edited February 2021

    @momkin said:
    Because each provider allocate different limits and also it depends on the node load ( how many customers in that node )

    and thank you for your wisdom - now i know it that VPS performance also depend on load and how many customer are on the node!! Great!

  • @seriesn said:

    @miu said:

    @momkin said:
    Don't expect to get the some performance you got from the other provider with every new provider you order from !

    Because each provider allocate different limits and also it depends on the node load ( how many customers in that node ) so don't expect high end VPS with low price it won't work !

    If you want dedicated resources , better to order dedicated server !

    Are u normal??
    Do you have feel that Multi core CPU is health limit and OK?
    Also SSD?

    Did you pop in a ticket asking them why is it low?

    There’s a major chance that they impose artificial limits :). They have done that with their ssd for ages and usually removes the limit upon ticket. Also 30GB ram for 15 per month, it should be given that the performance will be sub par boss. It is cheap for a reason.

    @seriesn: YES, this has been second attempt
    When i upgraded on higher plan and they promised me and wrote that believe that now i will satisfied with performance, and then i got this
    Tragicomedy.
    Waste of money and time

  • @seriesn said:

    honestly - shouldn't you be ashamed to deliver such something to the customer in general ever?

  • verovero Member, Host Rep

    That "not possible to provide a revocation since you ordered as business customer" is low.. :# If they refer to European consumer laws when it comes to refunds, what law allows to call their servers "High performance"?

    Thanked by 1miu
  • I have 4cpu and 8gb ram vps. My geekbench 5 scores are usually 700 for single core and 2400(+-) for multi core. Disk of contabo is not great and don't expect nvme performance. But there is problem with your cpu score. You should open a ticket and demand a relocation of your service on some other node. Maybe something went wrong on vps configuration.

  • my opinion: take the other provider (and tell us whois the other provider, thanks).

  • @miu said:

    @seriesn said:

    honestly - shouldn't you be ashamed to deliver such something to the customer in general ever?

    Well I mean, that's me though. Some people will publicly tell you, it is okay to wait 10 days for support ticket response because they are busy with sales and it is okay that their service is meh, because it is cheap.

    Thanked by 1bulbasaur
  • RAID10 SSD vs (RAID?) NVMe.

    Something with Apples and Oranges.

  • miumiu Member
    edited February 2021

    @marvel said:
    RAID10 SSD vs (RAID?) NVMe.

    Something with Apples and Oranges.

    Hello. I have a bunch of VPSes where SATA-R10 gives more than this SSD ("R10")

  • They mean their VPS has much higher performance than a human

    Thanked by 1miu
  • ericlsericls Member, Patron Provider

    What’s the other provider?

  • coolicecoolice Member
    edited February 2021

    @miu said:

    @momkin said:
    Don't expect to get the some performance you got from the other provider with every new provider you order from !

    Because each provider allocate different limits and also it depends on the node load ( how many customers in that node ) so don't expect high end VPS with low price it won't work !

    If you want dedicated resources , better to order dedicated server !

    Are u normal??
    Do you have feel that Multi core CPU is health limit and OK?
    Also SSD?

    I asked once if Conatbo with 1600 GB SSD offer is actually one cheap desktop 2TB drive ( under provisioned (20%) to prolonged live) as on that price no one can profit with drives in RAID not to mention to be with enterprise one ... No one confirms or deny

    Dram less SSD as Crucial BX 500 or WD Greed can give you the result you show ....

    Were their site says Fast Raid 10 ? - 100% Fast SSD Included on top of the offers

    Thanked by 1gdmax
  • skorupionskorupion Member, Host Rep

    Did you ask them to lift the ssd limit?. You will still have limited I/O, but you can ask them to unlock the ssd speed, and also try again to see if it was just a loaded node.

  • Thanks for providing feedback and I'm sorry you had bad experience with our VPS. I'm actually a bit surprised with your findings as there was another review published here a couple days ago showing way different results (https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3207405#Comment_3207405).

    I will ask our engineers to investigate and if you are interested, I can share the findings with you.

    Thanked by 1miu
  • honestly probably an issue with your node. just send a ticket in

  • @miu said:

    Are u normal??
    Do you have feel that Multi core CPU is health limit and OK?
    Also SSD?

    honestly - shouldn't you be ashamed to deliver such something to the customer in general ever?

    you are entitled much aren't you? should seriously work on your tone of voice or at least not wonder if you otherwise are coming across like an impolite dick.

  • @aleksanderkuczek said:
    Thanks for providing feedback and I'm sorry you had bad experience with our VPS. I'm actually a bit surprised with your findings as there was another review published here a couple days ago showing way different results (https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3207405#Comment_3207405).

    I will ask our engineers to investigate and if you are interested, I can share the findings with you.

    Hello Aleksander

    Thank you for your response and willingness.

    I appreciate your effort save/redress situation where someone else (mean you mentioned colleagues responsible for performance) failed.

    But already (main from frustration & but also from no time reasons - need servers without such useless issues for waiting corporate customers instead resolve several days multiple ticket ping-pong) i have bought and provisioned suitable dedicated server as replacement of this VPS, so it's pointless/irrelevant, because i decided cancel it and stop use Contabo in future.

    Thanks for your understanding, all the best, regards miu.

  • ariq01ariq01 Member
    edited February 2021

    Do you prefer choose quality or quantity?
    You can't choose both. You can't find 30GB RAM and 800GB SSD with just 15eur/month elsewhere (maybe in blackfriday :joy: )

    and who is the another provider?

    Thanked by 1themew
  • miumiu Member
    edited February 2021

    @ariq01 said:
    Do you prefer choose quality or quantity?
    You can't choose both.

    Thank you for your wisdom!
    No, you can have both (nice performance for good price, not only cheap shit or very expensive HQ) Any example? OK. Go here:

    https://www.netcup.de/bestellen/produkt.php?produkt=2560

    VPS 4000 G9 12M
    
          8 Cores, KVM-Technologie
          32 GB RAM
          800 GB SSD (RAID10)
          80 TB Traffic ungedrosselt
          Snapshots (Copy-On-Write)
    
           21,00€ pro Monat  (inkl. 19% MwSt.) 
    
     (if you or your company is outside from EU, 
    then you can remove -4€ VAT and price is practically the same = 16€/m)
    

    I guarantee to you from own experiences a much better overall performance as is above in this post on the left

    (and delivered on the first attempt, no xyz tickets for unlocking/improve SSD, CPU, move to another node, then other and etc needed)

  • WebProjectWebProject Host Rep, Veteran
    edited February 2021

    if they can't cancel or refund your service ask them to move to different node till you will be satisfied with their service. B2B contracts are different to consumers but provider need to satisfy the customer with service or otherwise the provider unable to fulfil their part of contact.

    Thanked by 1miu
  • miumiu Member
    edited February 2021

    This is my NETCUP from 4 years ago

    SAS 600GB, 4 cores, 23 GB RAM / 10.50 € monthly

        Processor:    Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6140 CPU @ 2.30GHz
        CPU cores:    4
        Frequency:    2294.600 MHz
        RAM:          23G
        Swap:         12G
        Kernel:       Linux 3.10.0-957.27.2.el7.x86_64 x86_64
    
        Disks:
        sda    600G  HDD
    
        CPU: SHA256-hashing 500 MB
            1.654 seconds
        CPU: bzip2-compressing 500 MB
            5.420 seconds
        CPU: AES-encrypting 500 MB
            1.113 seconds
    
        ioping: seek rate
            min/avg/max/mdev = 85.2 us / 178.7 us / 101.5 ms / 1.01 ms
        ioping: sequential read speed
            generated 6.80 k requests in 5.12 s, 1.66 GiB, 1.33 k iops, 332.0 MiB/s
    
        dd: sequential write speed
            1st run:    288.01 MiB/s
            2nd run:    415.80 MiB/s
            3rd run:    501.63 MiB/s
            average:    401.81 MiB/s
    
        IPv4 speedtests
            your IPv4:    213.109.162.xxxx
    
            Cachefly CDN:         71.44 MiB/s
            Leaseweb (NL):        90.61 MiB/s
            Softlayer DAL (US):   12.41 MiB/s
            Online.net (FR):      91.79 MiB/s
            OVH BHS (CA):         20.02 MiB/s
    
    
    ------------------------------------------------------------------
    CPU model            : Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6140 CPU @ 2.30GHz
    Number of cores      : 4
    CPU frequency        : 2294.600 MHz
    Total size of Disk   : 588.0 GB (4.9 GB Used)
    Total amount of Mem  : 23948 MB (971 MB Used)
    Total amount of Swap : 12289 MB (0 MB Used)
    System uptime        : 58 days, 20 hour 47 min
    Load average         : 0.00, 0.07, 0.07
    OS                   : CentOS 7.6.1810
    Arch                 : x86_64 (64 Bit)
    Kernel               : 3.10.0-957.27.2.el7.x86_64
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    I/O speed(1st run)   : 341 MB/s
    I/O speed(2nd run)   : 708 MB/s
    I/O speed(3rd run)   : 708 MB/s
    Average I/O speed    : 585.7 MB/s
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    Node Name                       IPv4 address            Download Speed
    CacheFly                        205.234.175.175         59.4MB/s
    Linode, Tokyo2, JP              139.162.65.37           8.61MB/s
    Linode, Singapore, SG           139.162.23.4            13.6MB/s
    Linode, London, UK              176.58.107.39           110MB/s
    Linode, Frankfurt, DE           139.162.130.8           123MB/s
    Linode, Fremont, CA             50.116.14.9             13.7MB/s
    Softlayer, Dallas, TX           173.192.68.18           14.1MB/s
    Softlayer, Seattle, WA          67.228.112.250          12.0MB/s
    Softlayer, Frankfurt, DE        159.122.69.4            110MB/s
    Softlayer, Singapore, SG        119.81.28.170           10.3MB/s
    Softlayer, HongKong, CN         119.81.130.170          9.82MB/s
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    
  • Hello. I've been a Contabo customer since early Dec 2020. For the price they're providing these services, I think you need to be flexible enough to solve a couple of issues. Show me another provider that provides 6 cores 16gb of ram and 400gb ssd vps for 9 euros a month. You can't. After you sort out a couple of things, everything will work as intended.

    Here's the yabs of my VPS S SSD:

    # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
    #              Yet-Another-Bench-Script              #
    #                     v2020-12-29                    #
    # https://github.com/masonr/yet-another-bench-script #
    # ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## #
    
    Tue 16 Feb 2021 02:16:10 PM CET
    
    Basic System Information:
    ---------------------------------
    Processor  : AMD EPYC 7282 16-Core Processor
    CPU cores  : 6 @ 2799.998 MHz
    AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
    VM-x/AMD-V : ❌ Disabled
    RAM        : 15.6 GiB
    Swap       : 2.0 GiB
    Disk       : 392.7 GiB
    
    fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50):
    ---------------------------------
    Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
      ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
    Read       | 5.29 MB/s     (1.3k) | 62.96 MB/s     (983)
    Write      | 5.31 MB/s     (1.3k) | 63.33 MB/s     (989)
    Total      | 10.60 MB/s    (2.6k) | 126.30 MB/s   (1.9k)
               |                      |
    Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
      ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ----
    Read       | 588.38 MB/s   (1.1k) | 588.11 MB/s    (574)
    Write      | 619.64 MB/s   (1.2k) | 627.27 MB/s    (612)
    Total      | 1.20 GB/s     (2.3k) | 1.21 GB/s     (1.1k)
    
    iperf3 Network Speed Tests (IPv4):
    ---------------------------------
    Provider        | Location (Link)           | Send Speed      | Recv Speed
                    |                           |                 |
    Clouvider       | London, UK (10G)          | busy            | busy
    Online.net      | Paris, FR (10G)           | 349 Mbits/sec   | 394 Mbits/sec
    WorldStream     | The Netherlands (10G)     | 353 Mbits/sec   | 271 Mbits/sec
    Biznet          | Jakarta, Indonesia (1G)   | 303 Mbits/sec   | 177 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider       | NYC, NY, US (10G)         | 343 Mbits/sec   | 371 Mbits/sec
    Velocity Online | Tallahassee, FL, US (10G) | 336 Mbits/sec   | 234 Mbits/sec
    Clouvider       | Los Angeles, CA, US (10G) | 308 Mbits/sec   | 213 Mbits/sec
    Iveloz Telecom  | Sao Paulo, BR (2G)        | busy            | busy
    
    Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
    ---------------------------------
    Test            | Value
                    |
    Single Core     | 777
    Multi Core      | 3517
    Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/6533772
    

    The only issue I've ever had with Contabo vps is constant high cpu steal (30-35%), but then I asked my node to be migrated over to another, less loaded node and -after some troubleshooting- they gladly did it for free and within 4 hours. There was another review on this forum that did not experience any cpu steal at all.

    Moreover, they have a working ddos protection, a kind and helpful support team and in case you read their ToS no surprises whatsoever.

    For 9 eur I can actually use the service to my preference unlike how @VirMach does with it's ridiculous AOP and "fair" share policy which is only fair for the host so the nodes can be better oversold.

    Overall, a very positive experience with them.

    Thanked by 3Ympker bulbasaur themew
  • How about their "VDS" line? Dedicated NVMe and all. Does they also come with such limitations?

  • who is the other provider?

  • mirocmiroc Member
    edited February 2021

    @hyperblast said:
    who is the other provider?

    i think netcup.eu was mentioned

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