Our Contabo VPS review
We took a hard look at the Contabo Cloud VPS 10 (Nuremberg DC) as a base for a self-hosted WireGuard tunnel: what the advertised specs say, the real price, and how it stacks up against Hetzner and OVH. Here's what holds up, what's annoying, and who should pick this VPS.
Verdict in one line
Contabo Cloud VPS 10 remains our #1 pick for a self-hosted WireGuard tunnel in 2026: Contabo's advertised 200 Mbit/s network link, dedicated IPv4 from €5.50/mo, German jurisdiction. Downside: email-only support (no chat), not ideal during urgent incidents.
What won us over
- Contabo's advertised 200 Mbit/s network link - enough to saturate a home WireGuard tunnel
- Dedicated IPv4 + IPv6 /64 included: no shared reputation, no inherited blacklist
- Nuremberg datacenter close to Western Europe: low latency for FR/EU use
- Flat list price from €5.50/mo (June 2026), no silent renewal hike like a SaaS VPN
- German jurisdiction - GDPR by design, outside 5/9/14 Eyes
What could be better
- Email-only support (no chat) - not reassuring during an urgent outage
- No pre-installed WireGuard - you deploy it yourself (15 min with our script)
- Higher latency vs OVH Roubaix if your traffic is strictly French-domestic
- Initial provisioning sometimes slower than a Hetzner Cloud instant spin-up
How we evaluate it
Our analysis is based on Contabo's published specs (Cloud VPS 10: 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, advertised 200 Mbit/s network link, Nuremberg DC), the contract/pricing terms, the German GDPR jurisdiction, and the WireGuard deployment experience documented in our guides. We publish no throughput figure presented as an in-house measurement: the network numbers cited are those advertised by the host. Scored on 5 criteria: price, network specs, advertised reliability, support, jurisdiction.
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Sources & references
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