Contabo says its servers have no default bandwidth cap, including VPS and VDS plans, but its fair-use policy allows it to throttle exceptionally high or disruptive usage. For a 24/7 YouTube stream, that means there is no stated fixed monthly transfer quota by default—not a guarantee that a particular India plan will sustain its advertised port speed indefinitely.
Does Contabo VPS have a bandwidth limit?
Contabo’s support documentation says: “There is no default bandwidth limit applied to our servers (VPS, VDS, DS); only our fair usage policy applies.” The policy says traffic should be consistent with typical server workloads. Contabo reserves discretion to throttle usage it considers exceptionally high or disruptive, and says it will notify customers by email if their use exceeds the policy and work with them on a solution.
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Contabo’s current VPS plan tables label traffic “Unlimited*”; the asterisk refers to this fair-use qualification. “Unlimited” therefore means no stated default transfer cap, not unqualified permission to send at full port speed without limit.
What does Contabo’s India plan offer?
India is listed as a Contabo server location. The India plan page advertises “Unlimited Traffic*” for Cloud VDS plans, subject to the fair-use caveat. Plan availability, specifications, and checkout terms can change, so check the exact India SKU and its current terms at order time.
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Port speed is not a sustained-throughput guarantee
Contabo’s VPS documentation lists port speeds from 200 Mbps to 1,000 Mbps across Core VPS, Performance VPS, and Storage VPS models. Its support documentation gives a broader range of 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps for VPS and VDS products. These are port specifications, not recommended YouTube bitrates or measurements of sustained performance. A larger port number alone does not establish that a plan will deliver a particular 24/7 streaming workload reliably.
How much data does a 24/7 stream use?
For a continuous stream, a useful decimal estimate is:
Monthly GB ≈ steady stream bitrate in Mbps × 324
This calculation assumes an uninterrupted 30-day month and decimal gigabytes. It follows from 30 × 24 × 3,600 seconds, with eight bits per byte. The examples below are calculations, not Contabo or YouTube published usage statistics.
| Steady bitrate | Estimated transfer over 30 days |
|---|---|
| 1 Mbps | 324 GB |
| 2 Mbps | 648 GB |
| 5 Mbps | 1,620 GB |
Actual totals vary with protocol overhead, reconnects, audio and video settings, and other server traffic. Multiply the bitrate of the outgoing feed—not the maximum port speed—to estimate the stream’s basic transfer.
Which traffic counts against the VPS?
If the VPS encodes a video or relays one outgoing feed to YouTube’s ingest endpoint, its stream egress is approximately the feed bitrate. If it also sends the video directly to viewers, outgoing traffic can rise with audience size and the delivery design. For a normal YouTube-hosted live stream, viewers receive playback through YouTube’s distribution infrastructure, rather than each receiving a separate copy from the VPS, provided the VPS is not also acting as a viewer-facing relay.
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How to assess a Contabo plan for continuous streaming
- Read the traffic policy, not just the label. Treat “Unlimited*” as no stated default cap with fair use, not as a full-speed guarantee.
- Check the precise India plan. Confirm the SKU, location availability, port specification, and checkout terms when ordering.
- Estimate the actual workload. Use the stream’s steady outgoing bitrate and the 324 GB-per-month-per-Mbps estimate; include other server traffic and any viewer-facing relay.
- Match the whole server to the workload. Compare CPU, RAM, port speed, written traffic policy, and total monthly cost. Contabo positions Core VPS for standard workloads and Max Performance VPS (formerly VDS) for high-traffic applications and sustained high bandwidth; that is vendor guidance, not independent streaming testing.
- Plan for policy intervention. Contabo says it may email customers whose usage exceeds fair use and work with them on a solution. Do not build a service plan around an assumption that throttling can never occur.
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