They shape. Not with a hard cap, but with congestion. Their Munich-Nuremberg backbone is oversold ten ways from Sunday. I moved my Plex off Contabo to HostHatch Zurich after 6pm CET stutter became predictable as rain in Portland.
Your 50MB reels will buffer. Not because of bandwidth limits, because of oversubscription.
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Guys any update on white label panel for Contabo? My client want to resell but no API for provision. I check their site, only manual order. This is 2025 still manual?
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How much you pay for HostHatch storage? I have 7 VPS, 4 from RackNerd, 2 from GreenCloud, 1 Contabo. All cheapest tier. My Contabo in Singapore OK for static site but video no.
I want try HostHatch but USD billing kill me with IDR rate.
H.264 or H.265? AV1? 50MB for a reel is either 4 minutes of H.265 or 90 seconds of ProRes. If you're serving that raw, no host on earth will love you. Cloudflare cache it and pray.
H.264 baseline, 1080p, 8Mbps. 50MB is roughly 50 seconds. These are portfolio pieces, not features. I know how to compress, I also know what artifacting does to a photographer's reputation.
And yes, Cloudflare (https://www.cloudflare.com) in front. But that only helps if the viewer is in a cached region. First hit still pulls from origin.
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Sorry if dumb question but if Cloudflare is free tier, does that mean unlimited bandwidth? I read somewhere they don't bill for transfer.
Free tier means they don't bill you. Does not mean they won't flag you. Section 10 of their ToS, "excessive non-HTML content." Video through Cloudflare free is a dance with the ban hammer. I know two people who got the "upgrade to Enterprise" email serving video.
Use Bunny.net or Cloudflare Stream if you must. Or just S3 with signed URLs. Cloudflare Stream: https://www.cloudflare.com
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There is no API. Full stop. I asked support in 2023, got a German paragraph that boiled down to "use our website." If you want resell automation, Contabo is wrong tree to bark up. Try Hetzner, they have a real API, or go full self-host with Proxmox and WHMCS like it's 2010.
I have 52 VPS and I automate none of them at Contabo. Manual spreadsheet like a caveman.
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Bunny.net very cheap for video? I learning CDN now. My English not good sorry.
