The Contabo Difference
We’ve been committed to providing German quality since our founding in 2003. For us, it’s not only a part of our ethos, but it reflects our desire to provide high quality server hosting at a value for everyone.
Our hosting solutions meet the needs of even the most demanding business applications. Whether you’re running services and apps in staging or production environments, our eight global Regions give you reliable service with minimal latency and SLA-backed availability.
We always strive to pass on low prices and discounts to our customers. We’re able to provide high quality servers at a value to our customers through a combination of using brand new components from Intel, AMD, Dell, HP, and Samsung that we buy at a solid discount, optimizing server loads, and managing our data centers efficiently (we own our data centers and all of our hardware).
Our award-winning customer support team is here for you via phone and or email. Industry-leading publications and customers have praised our team for the work they’ve done in resolving issues quickly. Fortunately, the support team isn’t one to rest on their laurels, and they always strive to improve their craft.
To quote one of our co-founders, "We are obsessed with security." We maintain strict role-based access (RBAC) rules across the entire company, especially when it comes to our data centers (all of them have 24/7 surveillance and layers of security measures). And, we have thorough processes that ensure we maintain the highest of security precautions for each of our customers.
Hosting Advice and CHIP Online are some of the industry experts who have repeatedly recognized our excellent customer service, great uptime, and data centers’ energy efficiency. You can check out the full list of awards we’ve won.
Operating Systems, Apps, and Deployment Options for Your Virtual Dedicated Server
Automatically install a wide variety of Operating Systems, Control Panels and ApplicationsWhat You Get with Your Cloud VDS Server
You get to use brand new AMD EPYC™ processers. The CPU cores and RAM is exclusively reserved for your use.
32 TB to unlimited outgoing & unlimited inbound data transfer with a connection speed between 250 Mbit/s and 1 Gbit/s. Note that in Australia and Japan, we offer 10 TB of outgoing, and unlimited inbound data transfer at the same great performance.
All our VDS come with extremely fast enterprise NVMe storage from well-known manufacturers.
Create private networks to run your services and applications in isolation on high-speed virtual private clouds. Note that traffic in a virtual private cloud is unlimited and unmetered.
Automate and manage cloud resources via API or directly from a terminal using the Contabo CLI.
Deploy efficiently and quickly with custom images, cloud-init, and SSH keys.
The web UI makes cloud services and account management easy with a few clicks and drag-and-drop functionality.
Cloud VDS utilize AMD’s Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) and Core Performance Boost (CPB). Each VDS core can act as 2 vCPUs.
Each server comes with dedicated IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, and you can buy and configure additional IP addresses if you need more.
You can manage your DNS via the Contabo Customer Control Panel. You can also buy domains from us, or bring your own.
Contabo’s global network is protected at the network level by always-on DDoS mitigation. We automatically detect and mitigate DDoS attacks on your infrastructure.
Award winning 365-day-a-year phone and 24/7 email support.
Get Way More Computing Power for Less
Unbeatable price-to-performance, guaranteed.Trusted by Thousands Worldwide
Lightning-Fast NVMe SSDs in All Contabo Virtual Dedicated Servers
Gen 4 PCIe NVMe SSDs
Contabo's VPS and VDS come included with the latest generation NVMe SSDs (no additional cost). You can always extend NVMe capacity if you need additional storage.
According to Digital Trends, "There is a huge difference in terms of raw performance when comparing a standard SSD with SATA protocol and an SSD that uses NVMe. " And we can confirm this based on our own research showing that NVMe enhances server performance by at least 10X.
SSD | Gen 4 NVMe | Improvement | |
Sequential Read | 560 | 7,000 | 15.50x |
Sequential Write | 530 | 5,200 | 9.81x |
Random Read IOPs | 98,000 | 1,000,000 | 10.20x |
Random Write IOPs | 88,000 | 850,000 | 9.66x |
8 Regions, 11 Locations, Global Availability
What people are saying About Contabo VDS Instances
"Excellent Service! I have a VPS server with them as when it comes to customer service they are awesome. Great service and I highly recommend. Any issues customer service has managed to handle on the spot. No server downtime. The staff is always patient, easy to understand and they often offer advice on how to keep my site running smooth.Thank you for always being my best supporter!"
Our Awards
Contabo Data Centers and Customer Support Received Multiple Awards
* In Australia and Japan, we offer 10 TB of outgoing, and unlimited inbound data transfer at the same great performance.
Minimum initial contract length:
1 month
Minimum following contract length:
Equal to the initial contract length
Minimum cancellation notice:
None (pre-paid) or 4 weeks (post-paid)