X-ZoneServers مقابل Contabo
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Contabo gives you more RAM and disk per euro than almost anyone, across 11 locations. X-ZoneServers gives every plan a full 1 Gbps unmetered port, hourly billing and guaranteed dedicated tiers to 200 Gbps. The trade between the two is unusually clear.
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الخلاصة
Choose Contabo when memory and disk per euro is the number you are optimising and your traffic is modest — their Cloud VPS 4 gives 8 GB of RAM and 100 GB of SSD for €5.50/mo. Choose X-ZoneServers when throughput matters: Contabo's entry port is 200 Mbit/s and reaches 1 Gbit/s at €37.00/mo, while every KVM VPS we sell runs a full 1 Gbps unmetered port from €4.00/mo.
Key facts at a glance
Short, checkable statements about both providers. Each one traces to a source listed at the bottom of this page.
- 1Contabo's Cloud VPS port speed scales with the plan: 200 Mbit/s on Cloud VPS 4, 300 Mbit/s on VPS 6, 600 Mbit/s on VPS 8, 800 Mbit/s on VPS 12 and 1 Gbit/s on VPS 16 and 18 (as listed 2026-08-28).
- 2Contabo lists Cloud VPS 4 at €5.50/month with 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM and 100 GB SSD — more memory and disk per euro than the equivalent X-ZoneServers plan.
- 3Contabo describes outgoing traffic as unlimited under a fair-use policy. X-ZoneServers KVM VPS are 1 Gbps unmetered with no traffic counter, and dedicated servers carry a guaranteed 1–200 Gbps port with no overage inside the tier.
- 4Contabo lists 9 regions and 11 locations. X-ZoneServers deploys in 12 metros across 11 countries, all in Europe plus Ashburn.
- 5Contabo Cloud VPS plans are billed monthly. Every X-ZoneServers KVM VPS bills hourly from €0.0056/hour with a monthly cap.
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Specifications and policies exactly as each provider publishes them, on the check dates listed under Sources.
| المواصفة | X-ZoneServers | Contabo |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price (published) | KVM VPS from €4.00/mo (2 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 40 GB SSD); 10 Gbps unmetered VPS from €9.99/mo; dedicated servers from €209/mo. EUR, excluding VAT. | Cloud VPS 4 at €5.50/month (4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 100 GB SSD, 200 Mbit/s) as listed on 2026-08-28. The range runs to Cloud VPS 18 at €49.00/month (18 vCPU, 96 GB RAM, 600 GB SSD, 1 Gbit/s). |
| Bandwidth model | 1 Gbps unmetered on every KVM VPS; 10 Gbps unmetered on the 10Gbps and streaming VPS lines; dedicated servers ship a guaranteed 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 25, 50, 100 or 200 Gbps port with no overage charge inside the tier. | Outgoing traffic described as unlimited under a fair-use policy based on average server workloads, with the port speed rising by plan from 200 Mbit/s to 1 Gbit/s. |
| Product lines | KVM VPS (hourly or monthly), 10 Gbps unmetered VPS, streaming VPS, dedicated servers, game hosting. | Cloud VPS, VDS, dedicated servers, and object and block storage. |
| مواقع مراكز البيانات | 12 metros in 11 countries — Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Paris, Marseille, Madrid, Milano, Vienna, Warsaw, Sofia, Bucharest, Istanbul and Ashburn (US), in Equinix, Interxion, Voxility, Telepoint and Irideos facilities. | 9 regions and 11 locations, per their Cloud VPS page. |
| زمن النشر المعتاد | VPS in about 60 seconds; dedicated servers typically within 1 hour when the configuration is in stock. | No provisioning-time commitment is published on the Cloud VPS page we checked; confirm at order time. |
| فوترة بالساعة على VPS | Yes — every KVM VPS bills from €0.0056/hour and is automatically capped at the monthly price. | No hourly option is listed — Cloud VPS plans are billed monthly. |
| حماية DDoS | Layer 3, 4 and 7 mitigation included on every plan at no extra cost. | Not stated on the Cloud VPS page we checked. Confirm current coverage before you buy. |
| نموذج الدعم | Operator-led 24/7 support by ticket and email, answered by the engineers who run the platform — no first-line outsourcing. | Email and ticket support. |
| Cancellation / commitment | Hourly VPS billing means you can destroy an instance at any time and stop paying. Dedicated servers are billed monthly. | Monthly billing cycle. Check their current money-back terms at order time. |
| Network and ASN | Blended multi-carrier transit with internet-exchange peering at each facility. We route over partner networks rather than publishing an ASN of our own. | AS51167 (Contabo GmbH). |
| Operating since | 2023 (X ZONE IT SRL, Bucharest, Romania) | 2003 (Contabo GmbH, Munich, Germany) |
| التخصّص | Unmetered and guaranteed-bandwidth hosting for streaming, game servers and data-heavy workloads across the EU and US. | Maximum RAM and disk per euro on general-purpose VPS, VDS and storage plans. |
Every figure in this table is taken from the provider's own public pages on the check dates listed under Sources. Hosting prices and specifications change often — confirm at the source before you buy.
Where Contabo is the stronger fit
More RAM and disk per euro than we offer
Cloud VPS 4 lists at €5.50/month with 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM and 100 GB of SSD. Our nearest plan, Micro at €6.00/month, gives 4 GB RAM and 80 GB. For memory-bound work — caching layers, dev and staging environments, self-hosted apps that idle most of the day — Contabo simply gives you more headroom for the money, and that is the honest answer.
A wider global spread on a small budget
Contabo lists 9 regions and 11 locations, reaching markets outside Europe and North America where we have no presence at all. If you need a low-cost instance close to users in Asia-Pacific or another region we do not serve, that reach decides it before any other spec matters.
Storage-heavy plans at commodity prices
Between large-disk VPS plans and object and block storage, Contabo is built for workloads where capacity per euro is the whole requirement — media archives, backup targets, and datasets that need to sit somewhere cheap. We price around network throughput instead, so on pure capacity they are the better buy.
Where X-ZoneServers is the stronger fit
A full gigabit port on the cheapest plan
Contabo's port speed climbs with the plan: 200 Mbit/s on Cloud VPS 4, and 1 Gbit/s only from Cloud VPS 16 at €37.00/month. Every KVM VPS we sell runs a full 1 Gbps unmetered port, starting at €4.00/month. If your workload is a download mirror, a VPN concentrator, a backup target or a media origin, that is the difference between waiting and finishing.
Hourly billing versus a monthly cycle
Contabo Cloud VPS plans bill monthly with no hourly option listed. Every VPS we sell bills from €0.0056/hour and is automatically capped at the monthly price, so a CI runner, a load test or a short-lived staging box costs you hours instead of a month.
10 Gbps unmetered VPS and guaranteed dedicated tiers
Our 10Gbps VPS line puts a 10 Gbps unmetered port on a €9.99/month plan, and dedicated servers are sold by guaranteed port tier up to 200 Gbps with every price published. Contabo's Cloud VPS range does not list ports above 1 Gbit/s, so multi-gigabit work has no equivalent product there.
Pricing scenarios
Comparable workloads at published list prices. Currency, VAT treatment, setup fees and promotional terms differ per provider — the disclosure below the table explains how to read them.
Entry VPS
X-ZoneServers
Micro — 4 GB RAM, 2 vCPU, 80 GB SSD, 1 Gbps unmetered — €6.00/mo excluding VAT.
Contabo
Cloud VPS 4 — 8 GB RAM, 4 vCPU, 100 GB SSD, 200 Mbit/s port — €5.50/mo (2026-08-28). Twice the RAM for less money, at a fifth of the port speed.
Mid VPS
X-ZoneServers
Basic — 16 GB RAM, 4 vCPU, 160 GB SSD, 1 Gbps unmetered — €16.00/mo excluding VAT.
Contabo
Cloud VPS 8 — 24 GB RAM, 8 vCPU, 300 GB SSD, 600 Mbit/s port — €14.00/mo (2026-08-28). More RAM, more vCPU and more disk for less; still short of a full gigabit.
A workload that needs a full gigabit or more
X-ZoneServers
Any KVM VPS from €4.00/mo runs a 1 Gbps unmetered port. Need more? The 10Gbps VPS line starts at €9.99/mo, and dedicated servers carry guaranteed 1–200 Gbps ports from €209/mo.
Contabo
1 Gbit/s arrives at Cloud VPS 16 — 64 GB RAM, 16 vCPU, 500 GB SSD — at €37.00/mo (2026-08-28). No port above 1 Gbit/s is listed on the Cloud VPS range.
رأي صريح: On RAM and disk per euro Contabo is ahead, and it is not close — at the entry tier they give twice our memory for less money. What you are buying from us instead is the port: a full 1 Gbps unmetered on every plan from €4.00/mo, 10 Gbps from €9.99/mo, and guaranteed dedicated tiers to 200 Gbps. Work out which of the two is your actual bottleneck and the choice makes itself.
Which one should you pick?
Pick X-ZoneServers if
- Your workload saturates its network port — mirrors, VPNs, media origins, backup targets.
- You want to pay by the hour for short-lived environments.
- You need a 10 Gbps unmetered VPS or a guaranteed multi-gigabit dedicated port.
- You want DDoS mitigation stated as included on every plan.
Pick Contabo if
- RAM and disk per euro is the number you are optimising.
- Your traffic is modest and a few hundred megabits is plenty.
- You need a cheap instance in a region we do not serve.
- You are parking a large dataset and want capacity at commodity prices.
الأسئلة الشائعة
Is Contabo cheaper than X-ZoneServers?
For memory and disk, yes. Contabo lists Cloud VPS 4 at €5.50/month with 8 GB RAM and 100 GB SSD, where our €6.00/month Micro plan gives 4 GB and 80 GB. The comparison reverses on the network: Contabo's entry plan runs a 200 Mbit/s port and reaches 1 Gbit/s at €37.00/month, while every plan we sell runs a full 1 Gbps unmetered port from €4.00/month.
What port speed do Contabo VPS plans get?
As listed on 2026-08-28: 200 Mbit/s on Cloud VPS 4, 300 Mbit/s on Cloud VPS 6, 600 Mbit/s on Cloud VPS 8, 800 Mbit/s on Cloud VPS 12, and 1 Gbit/s on Cloud VPS 16 and 18. Outgoing traffic is described as unlimited under a fair-use policy.
Does Contabo offer hourly billing?
No hourly option is listed on their Cloud VPS range — plans are billed monthly. Every X-ZoneServers KVM VPS bills from €0.0056/hour and is capped at the monthly price, which suits CI runners, load tests and short-lived staging environments.
Which is better for game servers?
Game servers are sensitive to network jitter and to sustained single-thread performance rather than to memory size, so the deciding factors are the port and the platform rather than RAM per euro. We sell a dedicated game-hosting line for exactly that workload, with L3/L4/L7 DDoS mitigation included on every plan. If your budget only allows a general-purpose VPS, test both before committing — a short hourly rental on our side costs cents.
Sources and check dates
Every statement about another provider on this page traces to one of these public pages. Where a provider does not publish a figure, this page says so instead of estimating.
- Contabo Cloud VPS — specs, port speeds, priceshttps://contabo.com/en/vps/· checked 2026-08-28
- X-ZoneServers VPS, 10Gbps VPS and dedicated pricinghttps://x-zoneservers.com/vps-hosting· checked 2026-08-28
Disclosure, method and limits
We are one of the providers compared
This page is published by X-ZoneServers (X ZONE IT SRL, Bucharest, Romania). We sell one of the two services compared, so this is a vendor comparison rather than an independent review. Our method is to quote each provider's own published figures, name the date we read them, and state plainly where the other provider is the better choice.
How the numbers are gathered
Competitor data is read directly from that provider's public website — pricing pages, specification sheets, network and location pages — on the dates listed under Sources, plus public network registries such as PeeringDB and bgp.he.net for ASN details. We do not benchmark competitor hardware ourselves and we do not republish figures from review sites or affiliate directories.
How to read the prices
List prices only. Promotional offers, first-term discounts, renewal rates, setup fees, add-ons, region surcharges and currency all differ per provider and can change without notice. X-ZoneServers prices are in EUR excluding VAT. Where another provider publishes in a different currency or inclusive of VAT, that is marked in the table — those figures are not directly comparable to ours without adjustment.
Accuracy and corrections
The goal is that every claim here can be verified at the source in under a minute. Nothing on this page is a benchmark result, a prediction, or a statement about a competitor's internal operations. If a figure has drifted or is wrong — including where the error favours us — write to us and we will correct it and move the review date.
Trademarks and affiliation
All company and product names are the property of their respective owners and are used here for identification and comparison only. X-ZoneServers is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or a reseller of any other provider named on this page.
جرّب X-ZoneServers دون التزام
Every KVM VPS is billed by the hour and capped at the monthly price. Deploy one, test it for an evening, and pay only for the hours you used.