Hello,

The new Contabo VPS portfolio goes live today. Three product lines, each shaped around a different kind of project, so you can match the machine to what you are building rather than the other way around.

The idea behind it is straightforward. A WordPress blog and a production API have almost nothing in common beyond running on Linux, and a single product line trying to serve both ends up asking the customer to compromise somewhere. With three lines, the choice depends on what your project actually needs.

The AI boom has driven RAM and other hardware prices up sharply in recent months, which has affected the entire hosting industry. We decided to use this market-wide challenge as an opportunity to add more value through choice.

Read on to learn what each line is built for.

Core VPS carries the claim Contabo has built its reputation on: the best value VPS on Earth. It’s the cost-optimized line, running on proven Contabo infrastructure with enough RAM and storage for the use cases it’s designed for.

The principle is simple: everyday applications like low-traffic WordPress blogs and nightly backup jobs do not care about having the latest CPU. We’ve designed Core VPS so you pay only for what your workload needs, not what it doesn’t.

Core VPS is a great fit for: web hosting and CMS platforms, email and file servers, development environments, backup and storage tasks.

Performance VPS is the compute-focused line for applications where performance matters. It runs on the latest generations of AMD EPYC with NVMe storage as standard and bandwidth up to 1 Gbit/s.

Most providers reserve hardware like this for premium tiers. We put it into a VPS at Contabo pricing, so a small team or a solo developer can run a serious stack without worrying about the bill. Performance VPS is also AI-ready by design and a practical fit for agent frameworks, analytics services, and heavier application stacks.

Performance VPS suits projects like: databases under growing load, CI/CD pipelines, API-driven apps with real traffic, AI agent frameworks, and modern application stacks.

Max Performance VPS is our renamed VDS line. It fills the gap most providers skip: when a shared VPS isn’t enough, but a full Dedicated Server is more than you need.

You get dedicated CPU and RAM allocated only to your instance, inside a virtualized setup with no noisy neighbors. Dedicated performance, without the Bare Metal price tag.

Max Performance VPS is ideal for: production environments with strict SLAs, high-traffic and customer-facing platforms, SaaS and multi-tenant apps, real-time processing, and AI agents or lighter LLMs.

This three-line structure is the logical progression of the anti-hyperscaler approach to hosting that we’ve been running for years. Fair pricing, global presence, and no enterprise markup for infrastructure that should just be straightforward. It gives you fair VPS pricing on serious hardware, with the freedom to pick the setup that fits what you are actually building.

The blog post goes deeper into the reasoning, the market context, and how to choose between the lines.

We believe this new VPS portfolio will make it easier than ever to find the perfect fit for your projects. We’re excited to see what you build with it.

Your Contabo Team