Cloud VPS and Bare Metal Servers for Less

Contabo's high performance, but cheap, cloud infrastructure gives you more RAM, CPU, and traffic for less compared to other cloud hosting providers.
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Cloud VDS for Less

Virtual Dedicated Servers: Power Meets Affordability

We combined the best of both Cloud VPS and Dedicated Servers so that you can run the most intensive compute workloads. Each VDS comes with 100% dedicated RAM, processors, and Enterprise-grade NVMe SSD storage.

Cloud VDS S
€42.99 / month
3 Physical Cores AMD EPYC 7282 2.8 GHz
24 GB RAM
180 GB NVMe More storage available
250 Mbit/s Port
32 TB Traffic* Unlimited Available
Cloud VDS M
€55.99 / month
4 Physical Cores AMD EPYC 7282 2.8 GHz
32 GB RAM
240 GB NVMe More storage available
500 Mbit/s Port
32 TB Traffic* Unlimited Available
Cloud VDS XL
€102.99 / month
8 Physical Cores AMD EPYC 7282 2.8 GHz
64 GB RAM
480 GB NVMe More storage available
1 Gbit/s Port
32 TB Traffic* Unlimited Available
Cloud VDS XXL
€149.99 / month
12 Physical Cores AMD EPYC 7282 2.8 GHz
96 GB RAM
720 GB NVMe More storage available
1 Gbit/s Port
32 TB Traffic* Unlimited Available

The Contabo Difference

Contabo has been providing high quality cloud server hosting at a value for everyone since 2003.
German Quality, Always

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.

Contabo's 10 data centers in the EU, USA, Singapore, and the UK give you reliable service with minimal latency and SLA-backed server availability.
Global Availability

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.

Contabo has the best cloud server price-to-performance because of how we select hardware, get nice discounts on purchase prices, and manage our data centers efficiently.
Best Price-Performance Ratio

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).

Contabo's award-winning customer support team always strives for continuous improvement and efficiency.
Year-round Support

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.

Contabo maintains the highest of security precautions for each of our customers with strict RBAC rules across the entire company.
Security at Our Core

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 have repeatedly recognized Contabo's excellent customer service, great uptime, and data centers’ energy efficiency.
Awards and Recognitions

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 Applications
Ubuntu
Windows
CentOS
FreeBSD
Debian
openSUSE
AlmaLinux
Rockylinux

What You Get with Your Cloud VDS Server

With AMD EPYC processors and brand new hardware from Dell, HP Enterprise, Intel, and Samsung, Contabo's servers give you reliable performance.
Dedicated Performance

You get to use brand new AMD EPYC™ processers. The CPU cores and RAM is exclusively reserved for your use.

Other vendors claim "unlimited" traffic, but only Contabo has a generous 32TB of outgoing and unlimited inbound data transfer.
Whole Lotta Traffic

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.

We offer the latest NVMe drives in all of our cloud server products from virtual private and virtual dedicated servers to bare metal.
Enterprise NVMe Storage

All our VDS come with extremely fast enterprise NVMe storage from well-known manufacturers.

Contabo's private networking lets you create robust virtual private clouds with unlimited, secure, and isolated traffic in Cloud VPS, Cloud VDS, and Storage VPS.
Private Networking New

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.

The Contabo API makes it easy to manage all of your cloud hosting resources via HTTP requests.
API & CLI

Automate and manage cloud resources via API or directly from a terminal using the Contabo CLI.

DevOps functionality like custom images, cloud-init, and SSH keys let you deploy efficiently.
DevOps Features

Deploy efficiently and quickly with custom images, cloud-init, and SSH keys.

Our web UI makes managing your Contabo cloud hosting services easy.
Web UI for Easy Management

The web UI makes cloud services and account management easy with a few clicks and drag-and-drop functionality.

Icon for Hyper-Threading
Hyper-Threading

Cloud VDS utilize AMD’s Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) and Core Performance Boost (CPB). Each VDS core can act as 2 vCPUs.

Provision any cloud server in minutes through the Contabo API or CLI.
Provisioning in Minutes

Get your virtual private servers provisioned in minutes every time you need them. You can provision and manage Cloud VPS resources via Contabo API or CLI.

From VPS to private networking, each of our servers can fit your networking needs.
IPv4 and IPv6 Addresses

Each server comes with dedicated IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, and you can buy and configure additional IP addresses if you need more.

You can buy domains from Contabo, or bring your own when you buy a VPS plan.
DNS Management

You can manage your DNS via the Contabo Customer Control Panel. You can also buy domains from us, or bring your own.

Always-on DDoS mitigation protects Contabo’s global network at the network level by . We automatically detect and mitigate DDoS attacks on your infrastructure.
Always-On DDoS Protection

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.

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Support

Award winning 365-day-a-year phone and 24/7 email support.

Get Way More Computing Power for Less

Unbeatable price-to-performance, guaranteed.
Contabo
€55.99 / month
VDS M - 8 AMD EPYC™ Physical Cores, 32 GB RAM, 240 GB NVMe, 32 TB transfer
VDS M - 8 AMD EPYC™ Physical Cores, 32 GB RAM, 240 GB NVMe, 32 TB transfer
Layer 1
Linode
€121.00 / month
Dedicated CPU - 8 CPUs, 16 GB RAM, 320 GB SSD, 6 TB transfer
Dedicated CPU - 8 CPUs, 16 GB RAM, 320 GB SSD, 6 TB transfer
Layer 1
DigitalOcean
€190.00 / month
CPU Optmized Droplet - 8 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM, 200 GB SSD, 6 TB transfer
CPU Optmized Droplet - 8 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM, 200 GB SSD, 6 TB transfer
Layer 1
Vultr
€242.00 / month
Optimized Cloud Compute - 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, 160 GB SSD, 7 TB transfer
Optimized Cloud Compute - 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM, 160 GB SSD, 7 TB transfer

Trusted by Thousands Worldwide

190 Countries Served
160,000+ Customers Worldwide
300,000+ Servers Running
19 Years In Business

Lightning-Fast NVMe SSDs in All Contabo Virtual Dedicated Servers

We offer the latest NVMe drives in all of our cloud server products from virtual private and virtual dedicated servers to bare metal.

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.

Storage Manufacturer Specifications
SSDGen 4 NVMeImprovement
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!"

Isuru Udara, Sri Lanka
lk

Our Awards

Contabo Data Centers and Customer Support Received Multiple Awards
Contabo award badges - Chip Hotline Test, Deloitte, Host Advice, Best German Data Center
Cloud VDS S
€42.99 / month
3 Physical Cores AMD EPYC 7282 2.8 GHz
24 GB RAM
180 GB NVMe More storage available
250 Mbit/s Port
32 TB Traffic* Unlimited Available
Cloud VDS M
€55.99 / month
4 Physical Cores AMD EPYC 7282 2.8 GHz
32 GB RAM
240 GB NVMe More storage available
500 Mbit/s Port
32 TB Traffic* Unlimited Available
Cloud VDS XL
€102.99 / month
8 Physical Cores AMD EPYC 7282 2.8 GHz
64 GB RAM
480 GB NVMe More storage available
1 Gbit/s Port
32 TB Traffic* Unlimited Available
Cloud VDS XXL
€149.99 / month
12 Physical Cores AMD EPYC 7282 2.8 GHz
96 GB RAM
720 GB NVMe More storage available
1 Gbit/s Port
32 TB Traffic* Unlimited Available

* 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)