Contabo vs DigitalOcean

I did some research and testing around the performance of servers on both of these service providers. The reason for this article is the huge price gap between them and the fact that I wanted to know what you actually get for your money. Below are all my findings, thoughts, and benchmark tests for comparison thrown on “paper”. We have been running DigitalOcean (DO) servers for quite some time, love the service and the whole brand. But then I heard of the Contabo server provider with their extremely cheap VPS options. We’re talking 5€/month for an 8gb 4 CPU server, WTF. At spaceinvoices.com we went on the mission of putting all our infrastructure on Kubernetes to ensure good throughput and reliability for our growing customer base and to achieve zero downtime and the goal of a stable system that could support up to 25 million requests per month. But the paradigm with Kubernetes, to my understanding, is to have a larger amount of smaller-ish servers to distribute the potential for fail