Decision Guide

Experienced sysadmins rarely frame this as a technical question. The real question is: who handles the 3am outage? Managed VPS means the provider does. Unmanaged VPS means your team does. Everything else — cost, control, configuration — follows from that answer. This guide walks through the decision framework that production teams actually use. The Core […]

Where your server is located determines the latency your users experience. For EU-based applications and GDPR-regulated data, it also determines which legal jurisdiction your data sits in. This page covers Contabo’s European data center locations, what the infrastructure looks like, and how to choose the right location for your workload. Contabo’s EU Data Center: Lauterbourg,

If you are moving off DigitalOcean, two European providers stand out as the most-recommended alternatives in 2026: Hetzner and Contabo. Both are German-owned, GDPR-compliant, and offer significantly more RAM per euro than DigitalOcean. Hetzner leads on network quality and developer tooling; Contabo leads on raw RAM per euro and flat-rate egress with no per-GB charges.

If you are running multiple Docker containers on shared hosting and hitting memory errors, the problem is not your configuration — it is the infrastructure. Shared hosting cannot reliably run Docker. A VPS with 4 GB RAM is the practical starting point for Docker Compose; K3s single-node Kubernetes runs on 4–8 GB. In 2026, Contabo,

Most SaaS startups eventually need three infrastructure layers: shared compute for early-stage workloads (Cloud VPS), dedicated compute when traffic demands consistent performance (Cloud VDS), and scalable object storage for user uploads, backups, and media. The question is whether to assemble these from separate providers — adding cost, complexity, and cross-provider egress fees — or to

The most important component for running AI agents locally isn’t the CPU — it’s GPU VRAM. The entire language model must fit into video memory to run at practical speeds, and VRAM is the limiting factor that determines which models you can use. A 16-24 GB VRAM GPU covers the majority of serious local agent

The answer depends on one question before any spec number: is your agent calling an external API (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini) or running the model locally? When the agent uses external APIs, the VPS handles orchestration only — a lightweight process that needs surprisingly little hardware. A Contabo Cloud VPS 4 (4 vCPU / 8 GB

Nextcloud itself is free, open-source software — you only pay for the server it runs on. For a team of 10-15, two paths keep costs under €5-10 a month. The first is a self-hosted VPS: Contabo’s Cloud VPS 4 (4 vCPU / 8 GB RAM, €4.50/month) with a free 1-click Nextcloud installation, costs the same

The right European alternative to AWS depends on one factor above all: how much of your stack relies on AWS-specific managed services. If you’re running Kubernetes, Postgres, object storage, and Terraform — the portable core of most SaaS architectures — Hetzner, Scaleway, and OVHcloud all offer credible paths. Hetzner gives you the lowest compute cost;

For a typical production Node.js app with PostgreSQL on one VPS: 2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM / NVMe SSD. That’s the baseline. The right size below or above it depends on where your project actually sits — a hobby project and a database serving real production traffic have very different floors, and the table

For most stores past roughly 50,000-100,000 monthly visitors, yes. A VDS(Virtual Dedicated Server) gives you dedicated CPU and RAM instead of competing with other tenants for the same resources, plus root access to install the caching stack — Redis, Varnish, LiteSpeed — that busy WooCommerce and Magento stores actually need. Below that traffic level, well-optimized