Are there any bandwidth limits at Contabo?

As a hosting provider, Contabo is obliged to guarantee a fair distribution of the available bandwidth.

In order to achieve this, several mechanisms are used to regulate the bandwidth allocation and to ensure a fair distribution.

These mechanisms contribute significantly to the goal of fair bandwidth allocation, but there are situations where they are not sufficient. For example, there are cases where further regulation is applied when servers consume a large amount of bandwidth.

If your server uses more bandwidth than your bandwidth package for a period of ten consecutive days, the support team will contact you and inform you that a bandwidth limit has been applied to your account.

To prevent this from happening, you have two options depending on the type of server you have:

For Dedicated Servers and Virtual Dedicated Servers (VDS):

If you require consistently high bandwidths above 100 Mbps, we can offer you different data transfer packages:

• Unrestricted Data Transfer at 250 Mbit/s:  €86.29
• Unrestricted Data Transfer at 500 Mbit/s:  €172.49
• Unrestricted Data Transfer at 750 Mbit/s:  €258.79
• Unrestricted Data Transfer at 1 Gbit/s:  €344.99

If you are interested in upgrading to Unrestricted Data Transfer, please contact customer support.

You can raise a ticket with the customer support team via the Customer Control Panel here.

For Virtual Private Servers (VPS): 

If you have a VPS with Contabo, it is not possible to upgrade it to be able to use a higher bandwidth package.

The possibility to upgrade the bandwidth of your server is only available for Dedicated Servers and VDS. So if you need more than 100 Mbps on a continuous basis, you would have to cancel your VPS plan and buy a new VDS or Dedicated Server.