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About Contabo is a German hosting provider which offers computing power, storage and networking for all your hosting & cloud needs - whether for business or private applications, for Internet beginners or experts with high availability expectations. We bring our customers online: Our product range includes popular server infrastructure solutions at discount prices. We provide Virtual Private Servers (VPS), Dedicated Servers (known also as Root Servers), Virtual Dedicated Servers, and Webspaces combining great prices with made-in-Germany quality. And, on top of that, customer support 365 days a year. All services at Contabo are equipped with free-of-charge DDoS protection. We provide both EU & US Locations. Customize and secure your deployments with cloud-init scripts and SSH keys via the API or web interface. Use any of the Contabo API features from your terminal. The Contabo CLI has an easy-to-use natural syntax and is available on Windows, Linux, and MacOS.	About Cloud images are operating system templates and every instance starts out as an identical clone of every other instance. It is the user data that gives every cloud instance its personality and cloud-init is the tool that applies user data to your instances automatically. Including datasource and module references, and plenty of examples. While cloud-init started life in Ubuntu, it is now available for most major Linux and FreeBSD operating systems. For cloud image providers, then cloud-init handles many of the differences between cloud vendors automatically — for example, the official Ubuntu cloud images are identical across all public and private clouds.
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Audience Companies of all sizes that need cloud computing or hosting solution	Audience Companies looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Automation platform
Support Phone Support Not Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Not Supported	Support Phone Support Not Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported
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Reviews/Ratings Overall 1.0 / 5 ease 1.0 / 5 features 1.0 / 5 design 1.0 / 5 support 1.0 / 5 Read all reviews	Reviews/Ratings Overall 0.0 / 5 ease 0.0 / 5 features 0.0 / 5 design 0.0 / 5 support 0.0 / 5 This software hasn't been reviewed yet. Be the first to provide a review: Review this Software
Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros The one and only pro of Contabo is the pricing, and i lost money with them, so i don't see any pro right now. Cons I have been swindled out of almost 1000€. I always read the terms and conditions before buying and I never buy from a company that does not allow refunds. Well, after reading them and buying, now that I ask for a refund because I do not need the product, just 24 hours before I buy, they tell me that these conditions do not apply to companies and that they are going to cheat me almost 1000€ that I will not be able to recover. Their conditions are not clear. UPDATE: I don't like to damage companies with reviews and I proposed them to remove mine, with the simple condition that they would refund an order, a refund that was requested in less than 12 hours after the order was placed, a digital order that does not damage the company at all. What these people call a friendly solution, is that, even when I showed them the part of their web page where it talks about the refund conditions, and where at no time they say that they do not refund companies, they have unilaterally decided to refund me 25% while writing to me with a condescending tone that they are doing me a favor. Conclusion: they have swindled me out of about 200 euros as a welcome, and they still have the nerve to tell me that they "expect me to come back as a customer". If you are reading this review, run away from these scammers.
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Company Information Contabo Founded: 2003 Germany contabo.com	Company Information cloud-init cloud-init.io
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Integrations Amazon Web Services (AWS) Not Supported Claude Code Supported Google Cloud Platform Not Supported Joyent Triton Not Supported Microsoft Azure Not Supported MultiPass Not Supported Multipass Not Supported NVIDIA NemoClaw Supported OpenClaw Supported Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Not Supported Rackspace Not Supported Shadeform Supported VMware Cloud Not Supported WHASOLS Supported n8n Supported Show More Integrations View All 6 Integrations	Integrations Amazon Web Services (AWS) Supported Claude Code Not Supported Google Cloud Platform Supported Joyent Triton Supported Microsoft Azure Supported MultiPass Supported Multipass Supported NVIDIA NemoClaw Not Supported OpenClaw Not Supported Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Supported Rackspace Supported Shadeform Not Supported VMware Cloud Supported WHASOLS Not Supported n8n Not Supported Show More Integrations View All 9 Integrations
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