Giga-International becomes Contabo!
Now it’s official. Our company name has changed to Contabo! As of today Giga-International will operate under a new company name called Contabo GmbH. The re-branding is just…
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GIGA V-Servers are called VPS from now on!
Effective of today we change the official name for our virtual servers. Our offered hosting solution V-Server is called VPS from now on. VPS is the shortcut for…
“I’m thinking about continuing & renewing my server. EVERYTHING JUST, BECAUSE CUSTOMER SUPPORT IS GREAT”
On some day during the last week a very good customer who has been renting a Dedicated Server in our datacenter wrote us that he did not necessarily…
Windows Server 2012 available now!
Just right after the official completion of MICROSOFT's new operating system for server applications – entitled Windows Server 2012 – our technicians have started with working on its…
1.000 Facebook fans!!!
Hey everyone! Today is the day we passed 1000 fans on our international Facebook page. From myself and all of us at Giga-International, thank you all for your…
Making business with domains including typing-errors!
Lately I found an article in the "c't magazine" with the title „Abfischen unerwünscht“ (in english: "undesired dry fish"). It´s about the possible judicial repercussion of „typosquatting”. A…
Every voice counts…
Everyone should make his or her own opinion, always and everywhere. But sometimes one needs the help and support of others. So what could be better than using…
A Second that could make a difference and bring your server down!!! – The buggy lil ‘leap second bug’
The weekend was pretty disastrous for websites around the Internet. First, storms in United States knocked out power in Amazon's data centres, and with it, around 1% of…
“No Nightmares anymore…..
…thank you very very much! You are an amazing company! No trouble everything always simply works.” This is just a short extract of an e-mail of a contented…
Secure Password Selection
I would like to take this opportunity to inform you about a very important matter regarding your dealing with/in the world wide web. The importance of picking a…
Our international affiliate program has been launched
Since today the launch of our international affiliate program is finally done. We were expanding our existing distribution channel of affiliate marketing and make an affiliate program available…
Our third 10Gbit/s upstream (Level 3) is online
Just a short confirmation: In December 2011 we said that we are going to expand our upstreams with an additional, high-quality carrier: Level 3. This has been completed…
Launch of our new customer login area
Over the last months we have been working hard to implement a feature many of you have requested: a login area that allows all of you to manage…
Windows vs. Linux – Whats Better?
Have you ever asked yourself whats better: Windows or Linux? In this article we will discuss the advantages of both!
New hardware RAID upgrades available!
To avoid boredom in the Giga-International department we revised our hardware RAID offers for you. For those who do not know what it is exactly – here is…