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An alternative to Contabo (VPS provider) (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by UnfairUtan@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hi!

For the past few years I've been hosting most of my services on Contabo VPSs (Immich, Nextcloud, and a few others).

They used to offer a great price to specs ratio, but have lately been awful to me as a customer. (drastically increasing the price to force me to change product, and then doing the same weeks after migrating to their new product).

I don't really trust them anymore, especially since the only way to make them react to my problem was to give them a bad trustpilot review..

So anyway I am looking for advice on a different VPS provider based on the EU. I mostly need a lot of SSD space (800Gb minimum), at least 4 vCPU cores, and a decent amount of RAM. The maximum I'm willing to pay per month is around 20€.

Anything you could recommend? Ideally with a good track record of maintaining their prices.

Have a good week end!

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[–] UnfairUtan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why should I stop using vps for my needs? I looked at the dedicated servers but they're all too expensive for me.

And yea I would like it to be all SSD, to me it makes a big difference for browsing large file collections, pictures and videos.

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dedi will perform a lot better and be more consistent and reliable. They're not THAT expensive if you're making nontrivial use of them. Otherwise maybe you can keep moving around between Contabo products. Keep in mind too that hdd performance will seem a lot better when you're not sharing it with dozens of other users. I have an HDD server and it's fine for browsing. Might not be great for large seek-intensive databases but I'm not currently doing that

Anyway you can also ask on lowendspirit.com which is a forum about budget vps.

[–] UnfairUtan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the explanation :)

[–] solrize@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Added: also look at kimsufi.com as an alternative to Hetzner.