Contabo
VPS and dedicated servers at highly competitive prices
Contabo is a German cloud hosting Provider founded in 2003 in Munich, known for the best price-to-performance in the industry, offering VPS, VDS, and dedicated servers with generous resources at affordable prices, with its own data centers across 4 continents.
Contabo is a German cloud hosting Provider founded in 2003 in Munich, known for the best price-to-performance in the industry, offering VPS, VDS, and dedicated servers with generous resources at affordable prices, with its own data centers across 4 continents.
- VPS Hosting from 4,50 EUR
- Dedicated Hosting from 96,00 EUR
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Contabo is a German provider of cloud infrastructure and dedicated servers, founded in spring 2003 in Munich by Michael Bolke and Michael Herpich. The company first operated under the name Giga-International, becoming Contabo in 2013 as international expansion kicked off. The current legal entity is Contabo GmbH, headquartered at Aschauer Str. 32a, 81549 München, Germany, registered with Amtsgericht München under number HRB 180722.
From a single server in 2003, Contabo grows into a team of around 300 employees and over 500,000 servers in operation. The company has offices in Munich, Cologne, Nuremberg, and Prague (Czechia), plus coworking spaces in Berlin and Hamburg. The current directors are Stephan Wolfram and Mario Wilhelm, and the company is part of the Contabo Group GmbH group.
Contabo’s infrastructure includes 11+ owned data centers across 9 regions on 4 continents. In Europe: Munich, Nuremberg, and Frankfurt (Germany), the new Europe Hub in Lauterbourg (on the FR-DE border), and Portsmouth (UK). In the US: New York (Manhattan), St. Louis (Missouri), and Seattle (Washington). In Asia-Pacific: Tokyo (Japan), Singapore, and Navi Mumbai (India, launched in 2024). In Oceania: Sydney (Australia).
The flagship data center, Hub Europe in Lauterbourg, is one of the most efficient facilities in Europe, with 25,600 sqm of space, 9.6 MW capacity, and room for around 50,000 servers. With a PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) of just 1.168, Hub Europe ranks among the most sustainable data centers on the continent.
Contabo’s service lineup focuses on unmanaged infrastructure: Cloud VPS (from ~4,50 EUR/month), Cloud VDS (Virtual Dedicated Servers with dedicated resources, from ~27,52 EUR/month), and bare-metal dedicated servers on AMD Ryzen and AMD EPYC platforms (from ~96 EUR/month). The company also offers Object Storage, website hosting on VPS with cPanel or Plesk, and mail server hosting solutions.
The tech stack runs on AMD EPYC CPUs (7282, 9224, 9355P, 9555P series) and AMD Ryzen 9 7900 for dedicated servers, Gen 4 PCIe NVMe SSD storage, and KVM virtualization. All servers come with free always-on DDoS protection and unlimited traffic. Contabo also offers a full RESTful API and CLI tools for automation, plus Cloud-init support, custom images, and snapshots.
One standout thing about Contabo is the exceptional price-to-performance ratio. VPS plans come with way more generous resources than competitors at prices 50–70% lower. For example, the Cloud VPS 10 plan includes 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, and 75 GB NVMe for just ~4,50 EUR/month — specs that would cost 3–4x more with other providers.
Tech support is available via live chat (with the AI agent ContaBro that handles ~33% of requests automatically), email/tickets (monitored 24/7), and phone (365 days/year, 8:00-23:00 Germany time). ContaBro, the AI chatbot, replies in 1-2 minutes and fixes issues in about 12-15 minutes on average.
Worth noting: Contabo is an unmanaged Hosting Provider — users handle server setup, updates, and security. The contractual SLA guarantees 99.9% uptime for VPS services, and the minimum annual availability in the terms and conditions is 95%.
In 2025, Contabo keeps innovating with the launch of Hub Europe Building 1, the addition of AMD EPYC Turin CPUs to the dedicated server lineup (17% better IPC vs Genoa), the Auto Backup feature (daily incremental backups, off-server storage), and free one-click installs for n8n, Nextcloud, WireGuard, and GitLab CE. With over 150,000 new customers in 2025 alone, Contabo strengthens its position as a leader in the value-for-money segment of cloud hosting.
Company Info
Pricing
VPS Hosting
- 4 vCPU Cores (AMD)
- 8 GB RAM
- 75 GB NVMe or 150 GB SSD
- 200 Mbit/s port
- Unlimited traffic (incoming & outgoing)
- Free DDoS protection
- Snapshots & API access
- Linux or Windows OS
- No setup fee
Dedicated Hosting
- AMD Ryzen 9 7900 (12 cores / 3.70 GHz)
- 64 GB RAM (upgradeable to 128 GB)
- 1 TB NVMe storage
- 32 TB bandwidth
- 1 Gbit/s port
- IPMI (iLO) access included
- No setup fees
- Free DDoS protection
Pros
- Outstanding price-to-performance — some of the most competitive prices in the industry for generous resources
- Global infrastructure with 11+ owned data centers across 4 continents, including the new ultra-modern Europe Hub
- Generous resources included — unlimited traffic, free DDoS protection, NVMe storage with no setup fees
- 20+ years of experience — founded in 2003 in Germany, with ~300 employees and 500,000+ servers
- Flexibility and scalability — full API, snapshots, custom images, Linux and Windows support
Cons
- Unmanaged hosting — users handle updates and security themselves
- Contract SLA with a minimum uptime of only 95% per year, with no clear financial compensation
- No shared hosting or managed WordPress — all services run on VPS/VDS/dedicated
Technologies, Features & Services
Customer Reviews
Quick support
customer for 34 months, would renew without thinking... everything simply works. Really impressed with the onboarding. Free SSL was already active when I logged in for the first time.
No complaints
Customer for 9 months, would renew without thinking... Everything simply works.
Would be a four-star review except for a scheduled maintenance window that ran an hour over. Flagged it, no response from them.
SSL, backups, caching, all handled without me needing to look them up. That is what managed hosting is supposed to mean.
No complaints
Running a Laravel app and haven't had to touch the server config once. That is exactly what I was paying for
Good value
Our agency moved a client site here and the speed jump was obvious within a week. We've since migrated four more clients over.
Worth every cent
No downtime that I have noticed since i joined. Their status page is boring and that is the highest compliment i can give. Billing is transparent, no surprise renewals, no upsells buried in tiny text. Refreshing after my last provider.
I am not technical. Their team walked me through cPanel step by step until I felt comfortable. Rare these days...
No complaints
Been with Contabo for 29 months and zero complaints. Uptime has been rock solid and the dashboard is straightforward.
Hit or miss
Performance is where it should be. Documentation could be more detailed for advanced setups.
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