Contabo
Stupid amounts of RAM and disk for the price, with the ergonomics to match.
Contabo's pitch is volume: more RAM, more disk, more bandwidth than anyone else at the price point. An $9/mo VPS M comes with 16 GB of RAM and 100 GB of NVMe — useful for self-hosting tools (Sentry, Mattermost, Plausible) that are RAM-hungry and not latency-sensitive.
The trade-off is network. Provisioning is slow, and benchmarks of cross-region traffic are the worst of any provider in this directory. For a side project where 50ms extra latency doesn't change the experience, the savings are real. For a public SaaS, run a quick latency test from your target users before committing.
Pros & cons
- + 8 GB RAM + 200 GB SSD for under $10/mo, no commitment
- + Generous resources let you self-host stacks that need RAM (Mastodon, Synapse, Sentry)
- + EU and US regions, transparent monthly billing
- − Provisioning can take hours instead of seconds
- − Network performance is the most-cited complaint — fine for a personal app, marginal for a SaaS with real users
- − Setup fee on entry-level plans (waived on annual commits)
- − Support is email-only, often slow
Plans & pricing
| Plan | Price | CPU | RAM | Disk | Bandwidth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VPS S | $5/mo | 4 vCPU | 8 GB | 50 GB | 32 TB |
| VPS M | $9/mo | 6 vCPU | 16 GB | 100 GB | 32 TB |
| VPS L | $17/mo | 8 vCPU | 30 GB | 200 GB | 32 TB |
Features at a glance
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