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TrustScore 4.5 out of 5

4.5

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Reviewers overwhelmingly had a great experience with this company. Customers consistently praise the service for its reliability and excellent performance, often highlighting the impressive uptime and scalable resources. Many people appreciate the affordable pricing, noting that it offers great value for the specifications provided. The customer service is frequently commended for being fast, helpful, and professional, with quick response times to inquiries. However, some customers were dissatisfied with the customer support, describing slow response times and generic, unhelpful answers, especially for critical issues. A few other people also felt that the pricing, while initially attractive, could increase over time, and some mentioned issues with IP addresses being on blocklists or difficulties with service activation.

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Service

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Price

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Cheap but good VPS offerings, good uptime/availability. Recently also took a subscription for a storage container to backup parts of my home NAS. Works great. Maybe less suitable for running gameserve... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I like the service provided. You have to know a fair amount about linux/networking/containerization, but when you do, their offering is very competitive. I like that they keep improving on themselves... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Contabo has been a great choice for my VPS. The cost is affordable compared to other providers, but the service is reliable: almost perfect uptime and scalable resources. When I needed help, the suppo... See more

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I recently purchased a VPS from Contabo Cloud and I’m very satisfied so far. The setup was quick, performance is solid, and pricing is excellent for what you get. Everything has been running smoothly,... See more

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Company details

  1. Cloud Computing Service
  2. Business to Business Service
  3. Cloud Storage Service
  4. DNS Provider
  5. Web Hosting Company

About Contabo

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Contabo is a leading made-in-Germany cloud services provider - starting at €4.50/month. We provide German quality servers at 11 locations in 9 key regions all around the globe.

We offer a comprehensive range of hosting and cloud services with full root access, designed to meet the unique demands of our customers:

Cloud VPS: Independent computing instances optimized for performance equipped with fast NVMe drives.
Storage VPS: Storage-optimized VPS for all data storage needs.
Cloud VDS: CPU-optimized virtual machines provisioned in minutes.
Dedicated Servers: Single-tenant bare metal servers with full control over your individual and customizable hardware configuration.
Object Storage: All-Inclusive Storage at predictable cheap monthly rates.

Since our founding in 2003, we follow 3 clear principles:
✔️ German quality with global availability
✔️ Incredible prices
✔️ Customer is king

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4.5

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TrustScore 4.5 out of 5

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Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Clear instructions

Clear instructions, proactive setups, love the easiness of it all!

February 19, 2026
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Thanks a lot for your kind words! We're happy to have you with us and appreciate your support.

Best regards,
Gil from Contabo

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Good prices

You have excellent availability, prices are reasonable and you have clear communication.

April 14, 2026
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Thank you for your feedback! It’s great to know that you’re satisfied with our service.

Best regards,
Gil from Contabo

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

A load of supportive FAQ's and…

A load of supportive FAQ's and instruments to run a Windows VSP smoothly

April 14, 2026
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Really glad to hear that you’re having a positive experience with us. Thanks for sharing your feedback!

Best regards,
Gil from Contabo

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Stability is noticeably enhanced

Positive thing is competitor pricing that is a huge advantage, the free firewall idea is great move to limit bad traffic on Contabo network thus less Servers Down and less noisy neighbors.
Floating IP is not available, that i moved to Cloudflare Load balancers and cancelled additional IP service that i used keepalived to move between servers for High availability but got feedback it will not work again.
Lately, i have less VPS downtime almost none at last year.

January 14, 2026
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Reply from Contabo

Thank you for sharing that feedback with us. We appreciate your input, as it helps us continue improving our services. With those improvements, we will hopefully make your next experience a full 5-star one.

Best regards,
Gil from Contabo

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Good service and decent price

I would start with the price, which is affordable.
I had no major issues with the service and support was always up to standards.
We have used several dedicated servers and performance was really good.

April 14, 2026
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Reply from Contabo

Thank you for taking the time to leave us this feedback. We’re happy to hear that things are going well for you.

Best regards,
Gil from Contabo

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Great service!

April 14, 2026
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Thank you for your feedback! It’s great to know that you’re satisfied with our service.

Best regards,
Gil from Contabo

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Fast, skilful and on point! 5/5

First response has been very fast and even though I had a couple of remarks and follow ups the team worked through it quickly and to the desired outcome. A couple of different agents have been on the case but made it feel like one smooth process.

April 14, 2026
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Reply from Contabo

Thank you so much for your great feedback! It’s really nice to hear that everything is working well for you.

Best regards,
Gil from Contabo

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

I am happy with Contabo

I am happy with Contabo, good support, experienced team with solutions to issues. Although it would be nice to have the possibility to get more cores in stead of upgrading the vps to a bigger one.

April 14, 2026
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Reply from Contabo

Thank you for sharing that feedback with us. We appreciate your input, as it helps us continue improving our services. With those improvements, we will hopefully make your next experience a full 5-star one.

Best regards,
Gil from Contabo

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

Fine, but expensive. Screws existing customers

Servers are fine, you get what you pay for. Its simpel, cheap and just works. The problem I have with Contabo is their support and their constant price hikes. I've had my server 6 years now, and the price is currently more then double from what i've payed for at the start. Instead of rewarding long time customers, you only get screwed.

There are lots of deals for new customers, but 0 for existing customers. They don't care for someone that has already payed them.

April 14, 2026
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Reply from Contabo

Hello Yannik,

Thank you for your feedback. I’m sorry to hear about your experience and specifically the pricing.

I’ve sent you a separate email with more details and would appreciate your reply so we can assist you further.

Best regards,
Gil Scheindling
QA Manager | Contabo Support

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

I like the freedom you have in os…

I like the freedom you have in os choice and use of your VPS service.

Never let me down rally.

April 14, 2026
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Reply from Contabo

Thanks a lot for your kind words! We're happy to have you with us and appreciate your support.

Best regards,
Gil from Contabo

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

My experience has been wonderful

My experience has been wonderful, would definitely recommend this to others.

April 14, 2026
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We really appreciate your review! It’s great to see that you’re enjoying our service.

Best regards,
Gil from Contabo

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Cheap and easy to handle

April 14, 2026
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Reply from Contabo

Really glad to hear that you’re having a positive experience with us. Thanks for sharing your feedback!

Best regards,
Gil from Contabo

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Value for money VPS

Value for money VPS. Excellent uptime and datacom. Great self service. Happy customer for many years.

April 14, 2026
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Reply from Contabo

Thank you for taking the time to leave us this feedback. We’re happy to hear that things are going well for you.

Best regards,
Gil from Contabo

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Reliable and affordable VPS service

Reliable and affordable VPS service. I was able to get an upgrade request quickly and smoothly handled. Following their improvements, looking forward to onboard more of my applications

April 14, 2026
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Thank you for your feedback! It’s great to know that you’re satisfied with our service.

Best regards,
Gil from Contabo

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Everthing is working great no issues…

Everthing is working great no issues sofar. The stup was very easy and my general feeling is that contabo is a reliable partner.

April 14, 2026
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Reply from Contabo

Thank you so much for your great feedback! It’s really nice to hear that everything is working well for you.

Best regards,
Gil from Contabo

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Stable Services & competitive pricing

Stable services, a well-designed customer portal, and last but not least, competitive pricing.

April 14, 2026
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Reply from Contabo

Thanks a lot for your kind words! We're happy to have you with us and appreciate your support.

Best regards,
Gil from Contabo

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Seamless experience

Seamless experience

April 14, 2026
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Really glad to hear that you’re having a positive experience with us. Thanks for sharing your feedback!

Best regards,
Gil from Contabo

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

just want continued money for non existent services

This company needs to make sure that when assigning IP addresses to servers make sure that the IP is not on block lists then when they are on block lists they should not say spend more money and we will give you another IP address with no guarantee it is also not on a black list
Thanks for the reply it is sorted now i've terminated the server.

April 14, 2026
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Reply from Contabo

Hello Mark,

Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. I’m sorry to hear about your experience. We take this seriously and are currently looking into it further.

In case the IP address is listed anywhere because of previous use, we can quickly swap the IP address without any fee. I invite you to reach out via email and I'm sure we can reach a quick and solid resolution.

Best regards,
Gil Scheindling
QA Manager | Contabo Support

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Our experience good with Contabo

Our experience is good with Contabo, we would scale our service with them.

April 7, 2026
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Reply from Contabo

Thank you for sharing that feedback with us. We appreciate your input, as it helps us continue improving our services. With those improvements, we will hopefully make your next experience a full 5-star one.

Best regards,
Gil from Contabo

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