I recently started using Contabo VPS’ while working with some friends and at some point we decided we wanted to use local networks. On all other major cloud providers this is free, faster and encouraged to send data over the private local network rather than across the public internet when communicating with two instances.
Contabo? It costs $1.50 USD per month per VPS to add them to a private network. Ok, that’s a a surprisingly high amount compared to free / encouraged.
So let’s just do it right? Wait! After having signed up two servers, both require “reinstallation” AKA they require being completely wiped and remade. Thankfully, these are not old servers, they’ve all been setup in the past couple weeks, but wow Contabo is prettty painful:
