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An alternative to Contabo (VPS provider) (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, wow, I was surprised and a bit concerned with OP's post. Except for never answering customer support tickets, they've been great, and the price increases have been both rare and low. I'd hate to have to migrate off.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

As I mentioned, one man's trash is another man's treasure. One thing I don't like about Contabo is that you can only maintain one snapshot at a time and there is no automatic way to create multiple snapshots. I did find an n8n flow that does just that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

I think you're probably looking a step more "enterprise" than I am. I'm doing nightly backups to B2; if one of my servers dies, my recovery is to spend a couple minutes re-installing Arch and then couple hours restoring from backup. My services are predominantly in containers, so it really is just a matter of install, restore, reboot. There are things I inevitably miss, like turning on systemd's persistent user services; my recovery times is on the order of hours, not including the fact I'm not actively monitoring for downtime and it could take a few hours for me to even notice something is down.

Like I said: totally not enterprise level, but then, if I have a day's outage, it's an annoyance, not a catastrophe.