Our Contabo VPS review
We've been monitoring a Contabo VPS S Cloud (Nuremberg DC) continuously for 14 months to host a self-hosted WireGuard tunnel. Daily iPerf3 measurements, ping from Paris, uptime tracking, support tickets. Here's what holds up, what's annoying, and who should pick this VPS.
Verdict in one line
Contabo VPS S Cloud remains our #1 pick for a self-hosted WireGuard tunnel in 2026: 200 Mbps stable over 14 months, zero major network incident, dedicated IPv4 at €4.99/mo, German jurisdiction. Downside: email-only support (no chat), not ideal during urgent incidents.
What won us over
- Stable 200+ Mbps measured via iPerf3 over 14 months (3 runs/day, median kept)
- Zero major network incident over 14 months — observed availability 99.98%
- Dedicated IPv4 + IPv6 /64 included: no shared reputation, no inherited blacklist
- Paris ↔ Nuremberg latency: 24 ms on average, stable during peak hours
- Price locked for 24 months (€4.99/mo) with no silent renewal hike
- German jurisdiction — GDPR by design, outside 5/9/14 Eyes
What could be better
- Email-only support (no chat) — 3-6 h average response over 4 opened tickets
- No pre-installed WireGuard — you deploy it yourself (15 min with our script)
- +15 ms latency vs OVH Roubaix if your traffic is strictly French-domestic
- Initial provisioning: 1-4 h depending on time of day (vs <5 min on Hetzner Cloud)
How we tested
14 months of continuous monitoring on a Contabo VPS S Cloud (4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 200 Mbps, Nuremberg DC). iPerf3 TCP/UDP 3 runs/day (9am, 2pm, 9pm, median kept), Paris → Nuremberg ping every 5 min, uptime via Updown.io, contract terms audit. Scored on 5 criteria: price, perf, uptime, support, GDPR jurisdiction.
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