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Contabo doubled my price at renewal, alternatives?

VPS Hosting by jihoonred86 22 replies 3.5K views
#11

My friend I find you best price. CloudCone always $3 for 1GB but only Los Angeles. If you need Europe, RackNerd has Netherlands location sometimes but CPU is lottery. I check for you.

Also VirMach has crazy deals but support is... you know. Not support.

#12
Izmir said:
CloudCone always $3 for 1GB but only Los Angeles

Already have that box. Latency to Seoul is 140ms. Fine for some things, terrible for others.

Need EU or Asia for this project.

#13

OVH VPS Starter is €3.59 ex VAT in France. AMD EPYC. Gravelines or Strasbourg DC. I use it for a WireGuard hub.

Not under €3 but closer than Hetzner. Support is famously absent though.

7 #14
jihoonred86 said:
My $2.50 HostHatch beats it on disk

Which location? I had HostHatch Oslo and the disk was fine but they had a scheduled maintenance every other week it felt like. Not downtime, just "we'll be moving your node" emails at 3 AM.

I keep backups because of them.

3 #15
readerkrakw said:
Which location?

Stockholm. The Storage VPS line, not their regular KVM. NVMe cache layer on spinning rust, gets 800+ MB/s on sequential. Random is worse obviously.

Their regular KVM in Stockholm was mediocre. I cancelled after two months.

#16
minh1987 said:
I'm not trusting a 301 from a host that already doubled prices once.

Fair but I got two boxes at €2.50 and I'm happy. If they jack it later I'll move then. Migration is one afternoon with rsync.

You guys overthink this.

#17
jack18 said:
Migration is one afternoon with rsync.

One afternoon if you have nothing. I have 42 services. My last migration took three weekends and I still found a MariaDB table I'd missed six weeks later.

The real cost isn't the €2.50. It's the time.

#18

This. I stayed with a terrible host for a year because I had SSL certs, DNS, email forwarding, three databases, and a custom MTA config. "Just move" is easy to say.

Now I use Ansible for everything. Second migration was 20 minutes. Learn your lesson.

4 #19

Has anyone tried WebHorizon? They had a €2.50 NAT KVM in Germany last I checked. IPv6 only or shared IPv4.

Not for everyone but the CPU was Ryzen 9 5900X when I tested.

#20
NailIce3 said:
WebHorizon

NAT IPv4 means no standard SSH port, no standard HTTPS. Fine for personal use, pain for anything public.

Also they're not in the datacenter list. Where in Germany?

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