Post #2200331

2026-04-28 06:36 UTC

I'm reading that Contabo have some performance and reliability issues, with people running websites and other apps complaining of downtime and slowness because of resource contention, because VPSes are oversold by definition. But honestly? A few bucks a month to have another, automatically synchronised copy of my data a few hundred km away that's mostly available sounds fine to me, especially when I can still run a dedicated local client in addition to my own PC and laptop.

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@gamedevjeff@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-28 09:50

@timixretroplays@digipres.club I'm currently leaning towards carrying a raidz2 copy of my home backup in my backpack, as that would technically count as offsite. Seems slightly safer compared to VPS provider error/hw failure, and I/O will never suck.

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@max@peering.social 2026-05-08 10:34

@timixretroplays@digipres.club I would not go for Contabo, Hetzner and Netcup are cheap enough but Contabo is a tier too cheap cutting corners.

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