ProHoster vs Contabo
Both appear in 2 sections: compute, footprint. They are evenly matched.
Contabo built its reputation on selling more RAM per euro than anyone else, and ProHoster undercuts it. Contabo's Cloud VPS 4 is $6.60/month for 4 vCPU, 8 GB and 100 GB of SSD. ProHoster's VPS-2-1-SSD is $5.90 for 2 vCPU, 8 GB and 60 GB. So ProHoster is cheaper on price and matches on memory, while Contabo gives twice the cores and 40 GB more disk. At the bottom of the range ProHoster is clearly ahead, with 2 GB for $2.60 where Contabo's line-up does not go that low. The real difference is not the specification. Contabo is a German company with a long operating history, data centres it runs itself, and a support organisation sized for a large customer base; its weakness is a setup fee on some terms and a reputation for variable disk performance under load. ProHoster is smaller and newer to most readers, lists 24 plans across OpenVZ and KVM, and is priced to win on the table rather than on reputation. Both are aimed at the same buyer: someone who wants a lot of memory cheaply and is willing to accept that the underlying hardware is shared more aggressively than at Vultr or Linode. If cores and disk matter as much as RAM, Contabo's extra 2 vCPU for seventy cents is the better arithmetic.
Pikkly earns nothing from Contabo, and the ranking above is by price regardless.
Compute
All compute →Footprint
All footprint →| Metric | ProHoster | Contabo |
|---|---|---|
| Regionshigher is better | — | 77 countries |