Checked 25 Oct 2026 — verify current pricing
HostCraft vs Contabo — an honest comparison.
Contabo’s 8GB-for-cheap offers are legendary — and the first thing every buyer learns is what "shared vCPU" feels like at peak hour. Here’s the honest comparison.
Fact-check: what the marketing doesn't say.
Spec by spec.
| HostCraft | Contabo | |
|---|---|---|
| RAM for the money | Dedicated — what you buy is yours | More GB per euro — shared contended |
| India datacenter | ✓ Mumbai + Delhi NCR | ✗ Nearest is Singapore |
| Windows RDP | ✓ Licence included | Paid add-on on top of base |
| Indian payments | ✓ UPI, bKash, USDT | ✗ Card/PayPal |
| vCPU model | Dedicated allocation | Shared — the classic complaint |
| Setup fee | None | Setup fee on some tiers |
| Refund | 7 days | Limited — check terms |
Often, at peak hour — shared vCPU means performance depends on neighbours. Ours is dedicated: quieter on paper, faster at 8 PM.
Honest answer: if you need lots of RAM for batch/Storage work and don’t care about latency or consistency, their offer is hard to beat.
No — Singapore is the closest region. Indian users see 40-80ms there versus 5-40ms on our nodes.
Available but billed as a licence add-on — our tiers include it in the price.
Because we sell dedicated resources, not oversubscribed ones. The GB is real; so is the vCPU.