Apparently US bandwidth was reduced to 1TB for their base plan, though they have 20TB for the same plan in Europe. I don’t use much bandwidth right now, but I could need more in the future depending on how I do backups and whatnot.
So I’m shopping around in case I need to make a switch. Here’s what I use it for:
- VPN to get around CGNAT - so all traffic for my internal services goes through it
- HAProxy - forwards traffic to my various services
- small test servers - very low requirements, basically just STUN servers
- low traffic blog
Hard requirements:
- custom ISO, or at least openSUSE support
- inexpensive - shooting for ~$5/month, I don’t need much
- decent bandwidth (bare minimum 50mbps, ideally 1gbps+), with high-ish caps - I won’t use much data most of the time (handful of GB), but occasionally might use 2-5TB
Nice to have:
- unmetered/generous bandwidth - would like to run a Tor relay
- inexpensive storage - need to put my offsite backups somewhere
- API - I’m a nerd and like automating things :)
- location near me - I’m in the US, so anywhere in NA works
Not needed:
- fast processors
- lots of RAM
- loose policies around torrenting and processing (no crypto or piracy here)
- support features, recipes, etc - I can figure stuff out on my own
I’ll probably stick with Hetzner for now because:
- pricing is still fair (transfer is in line with competitors)
- can probably move my server to Germany w/o major issues for more bandwidth
- they hit all of the other requirements, nice to haves, and many unneeded features
Anyway, thoughts? The bandwidth change pisses me off, so let me know if there’s a better alternative.
You can get 4 cores, 6gb ram, 200gb ssd for 6$ per month from contabo.
Lets normalize the price for comparison.
6/3 = 2
So for the same normalized price you get:
Thats a bit more CPU, four times the RAM and six times the storage!!!
I highly doubt that the “near bare metal” performance of that one core is better than just having 30% more virtualized cores.
And the math gets even worse if you compare the other tiers.
The only good tradeoff for this offer is the unlimited traffic IF and only if you actually would hit the comtabo limits (32TB outbound + unlimited incoming) and there is probably some math where you can calculate when it starts to be worth the money vs. getting a second contabo vps.