Let’s face it – there are a lot of Black Friday and Cyber Monday hosting deals out there. A lot of them are packed with in-your-face marketing-speak that makes your head spin just fast enough to get on board. Then, almost as soon as you’ve paid up and start putting these “life-changing discounts” to work, too often you find out that nothing was really as good as it seemed.
Tired of Black Friday buyer’s remorse? Us too. That’s why we’re doing it differently – high value over hype in every deal.
Yes, there are promotions running throughout the weekend. Lifetime discounts, reduced location fees, special pricing on essential Add-Ons, and more might be coming your way. All great deals that we’ve designed to give you unbeatable value, and certainly enough to get excited about (although we don’t want to give too much away just yet). But we’re going a step further.
This year, you can combine our promotional pricing with something that delivers value long after the weekend ends: 1-click installations of four open-source apps that remove the usual barriers to self-hosting and turn your server into an even more powerful tool for your business.
Black Friday & Cyber Monday Deals Meet 1-Click Apps
Last month, we brought live free 1-click installations for n8n, Nextcloud, WireGuard, and GitLab on VPS and VDS instances. Deploy them with zero hassle – we do all the hard work for you and eliminate the hours of setup work that used to make self-hosting these powerful tools a real pain.
The timing is great – our Black Friday offers on VPS and VDS make these servers even more cost-effective – and of course, the apps themselves are free of charge.
Simply pick your tool when ordering. We handle installation, security defaults, and initial configuration – everything that’s needed for optimal performance on your chosen server. You get credentials via email. Log in. Start using the application. In under 30 minutes, you’ve gone from ordering to a fully functional deployment.
Black Friday value means getting infrastructure running that solves problems for years, not months. Getting a great deal on your server just makes it that much easier.
n8n Plus Black Friday Pricing Changes the Math
Cloud automation platforms bill per execution. A five-step workflow running several thousand times monthly pushes you into expensive pricing tiers fast.
With n8n on your own VPS, execution count becomes irrelevant to your bill. Run hundreds of workflows or hundreds of thousands. Server cost stays flat. When you combine that cost structure with Black Friday discounts, you’re locking in both low base pricing and unlimited execution capacity.
Beyond cost, there’s the data question. Every API credential, every customer record, every workflow variable stays on infrastructure you control. For agencies handling regulated data or SaaS companies processing user information through automated workflows, self-hosted n8n simplifies compliance. The data never leaves your VPS unless a workflow explicitly sends it somewhere.
It helps to deploy n8n closer to the APIs and services you’re connecting. Lower latency means faster workflow execution and more responsive automations. Who knows, there might be some reduced location fees around the corner to make hosting your server in any of our 11 Locations that much easier…
Nextcloud on Lower-Priced Infrastructure
Cloud storage providers scale pricing with user count and storage usage. Team growth triggers billing changes. Storage needs increase costs. Even Black Friday deals on subscriptions with commercial providers still mean accepting that cost structure.
Nextcloud on a Contabo VPS works differently. User count doesn’t affect server costs. You can easily scale your storage or upgrade your server anytime. No more worrying about being forced to move up a subscription tier when your project or team grows.
Location matters here too. Many agencies choose to deploy in our European data center because GDPR compliance matters to their clients. The same goes for American clients and HIPAA regulations. With Contabo, you have 9 global Regions to choose from – host your server anywhere.
Combining fair-priced servers with 1-click Nextcloud installation means you’re getting both easy deployment and long-term cost predictability. Plus, flexible storage extensions and easy upgrades mean you can plan ahead for the capacity you’ll need – especially since we might have a few Black Friday offers on these coming up…
WireGuard Server on VPS for Less
Commercial VPN providers charge monthly subscriptions and require trusting their logging policies. Running WireGuard on your own VPS eliminates both the ongoing subscription and the trust problem.
Your server, your rules, your encrypted tunnel. The VPN provider can’t sell browsing data because you are the VPN provider.
The 1-click installation handles key generation, interface configuration, and firewall rules. You get connection details. Distribute them to authorized devices. Just like that, your private VPN network is operational.
Latency matters most for VPN performance. With Contabo data centers from North America to Asia to Australia, you can place WireGuard servers in multiple regions affordably. Our Black Friday deals might make this an even more attractive possibility – watch this space!
Self-Hosted GitLab CE: DevOps Without Per-User Fees
GitLab charges per user, per month. A 25-person development team can easily pay thousands yearly just for the platform. That’s before compute minutes, storage overages, or additional features.
GitLab Community Edition (CE) on your own VPS gets rid of that pricing model. No per-user fees. No compute minute limits. Your team of five or fifty pays the same server cost. With free 1-click installation, the only expense is your server itself.
For development teams managing source code, CI/CD pipelines, and issue tracking, self-hosted GitLab CE delivers all the core functionality you need at a fraction of the cost. You get unlimited repositories, unlimited collaborators, and full control over your code hosting environment. Security-conscious organizations particularly appreciate keeping proprietary source code on infrastructure they manage themselves.
Regional deployment affects GitLab performance too. Developers pushing code to a repository 7,000 kilometers away notice the latency. CI/CD pipelines take longer. Code reviews feel sluggish. Hosting GitLab closer to your development team improves daily workflows. With global infrastructure options, you’re not stuck accepting high latency or paying premium fees for location – especially with our upcoming Black Friday deals.
Black Friday Makes this the Right Time
Because you can add these free tools to any VPS or VDS, nearly all of our upcoming Black Friday promotions stack with these 1-click installations. Order a new server during Black Friday, add n8n or Nextcloud or WireGuard during configuration, and you’re getting both great prices and hassle-free deployment. Of course, even our regular prices that are available year-round offer great value – Black Friday just makes them that much better.
Our range of VPS options provides plenty of resources for any of these apps with room to grow, while VDS offers dedicated performance. Every option includes NVMe storage. When n8n logs workflow executions, when Nextcloud handles database queries for file operations, when WireGuard updates connection state, storage speed determines responsiveness. NVMe delivers the I/O performance these applications demand.
Not sure which option to pick? We’ve suggested a few ideal configurations for each app. Just check out the respective product pages.
The power of self-hosting these tools together with our Black Friday deals makes an unbeatable combination that gives you ultimate control and saves you a lot of money – not just this year, but for years to come. Don’t miss this chance to get the most out of your cloud hosting!