centron in the Comparison
When choosing cloud infrastructure, people usually compare three things: price, ease of use and performance. Here you’ll find both – direct comparisons of individual providers and market overviews covering entire product categories.
Comparing entire product categories
These guides set out the selection criteria for a product category – based on verified figures rather than marketing claims.
German cloud providers
Six criteria that make all the difference – plus a detailed look at price, ease of use and performance. For anyone looking for a provider with a data centre in Germany.
Kubernetes Hosting in Germany
How much a managed cluster costs – from €29.99 to €699.99 per month – what’s included in the price, and when a managed solution is more cost-effective than running it yourself.
Object storage providers
Why, with object storage, it is traffic that determines the price – not the price per gigabyte. With a sample calculation for a one-terabyte backup archive.
Managed vs. Unmanaged Hosting
Who is responsible for updates, monitoring and backups? A side-by-side comparison of how tasks are allocated – and the cost analysis that is often missing.
centron versus individual providers
A comparison of the scope of services, billing model and quality of support – in each case, based on the criteria that matter in day-to-day operations.
centron vs. Hetzner
A direct comparison of two German providers: prices, managed services and quality of support.
centron vs. IONOS
Cloud servers, pricing models and support compared – where the differences lie in detail.
centron vs. STACKIT
Two leading cloud providers from Germany: pricing transparency, managed services and who takes charge of operations.
centron vs. Microsoft Azure
German cloud versus hyperscalers: cost structure, GDPR compliance and operational complexity.
Cloud GPUs for AI and rendering
A comparison of NVIDIA models, prices and availability – for AI training, inference and computationally intensive workloads.
GPU: Centron vs. Hetzner
A comparison of NVIDIA models, hourly rates and availability for AI workloads.
GPU: Centron vs. IONOS
A comparison of prices, GPU models and scalability for AI training and inference.
GPU: Centron vs. OVHcloud
A direct comparison of A100 and RTX instances by price and performance.
The three criteria we examine in every comparison
Price
ccloud³ VMs from €3.12 per month, billed by the hour and with no minimum contract term. Inbound traffic is free, and S3 traffic is fully included – what matters is what a real configuration costs per month, not the advertised entry-level price.
Usability
A ccloud³ VM is provisioned in around 38 seconds – no ticket required, no activation needed. Anything that can be done via the user interface can also be done via the API. And if you don’t want to manage it yourself at all, you can hand over the operation to Managed Services.
Performance
The Power Pools guarantee 3.5 GHz per core on AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon hardware – consistently, regardless of the overall load. In the Geekbench single-core test with 4 GB of RAM, centron achieved a score of 1,487.
How we compare
All information relating to centron is taken from the price list, the price calculator or the service specifications and is therefore verifiable. Where competitors are concerned, we deliberately refrain from quoting our own figures: tariffs change, and out-of-date information does not help anyone to make a decision. Instead, we set out the criteria you can use to make your own comparisons.
- Our own data centres – our own site in Hallstadt near Bamberg with two separate fire compartments
- Verifiable certifications – ISO 27001, ISO 9001, ISO 14001, BSI C5:2020 Type 1
- Availability in the service level agreement – 99.5% Workers/Power, 99.8% HA pool, 99.9% Storage
- 24/7 support included – German-speaking, with dedicated contact persons
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