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Webspace: How to run Auto-SSL manually

A free SSL certificate for your domain can be installed at any time within cPanel. Your website will receive automatically a free SSL certificate after 12-24 hours, however requesting the certificate manually will install it immediately. In case your browser shows the following warning when accessing your website via https:// the SSL certificate might not

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LEMP: Debian, NGINX + Certbot, MariaDB, PHP

This tutorial shows you how to prepare your Debian VPS for hosting your website.We are not going to perform any fine-tuning or optimization on the default configuration files. So neither NGINX, MySQL or PHP (LEMP) will get any other than the necessary configuration changes in order to run a website properly. 1. Install the Software

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Debian & Ubuntu Upgrade

At Contabo, we always offer you the latest version of many popular Linux operating systems. This tutorial shows you how to upgrade from an old version to the latest Debian (stable) or Ubuntu LTS. Important: Before proceeding make sure to have a local backup of all important files, the upgrade might fail and your server

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Now available : Configuring the latest available PHP Version on your Webspace package

Today we performed some great update on our Webspace hosts, you are now able to choose between the following PHP Versions for your Website: PHP 5.6 (oldstable) PHP 7.0 (stable) PHP 7.1 (testing) To configure your desired PHP Version just login to your cPanel interface and navigate to “Software” -> “Multi PHP Manager“. To configure

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The SSL certificate

Some of you might wonder in which situations an SSL certificate should be used. This tutorial will help you to find an answer whether or not you should upgrade your website or anything else by adding encryption. The most important parts of a certificate are the public key and the private key. The following image

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Installing Windows Hyper-V 2016 on a dedicated server

Welcome to our tutorial about installing Hyper-V on your Dedicated Server with Windows Server 2016. Step 1 Installing Hyper-V After receiving the login information to your dedicated server you might want to find out how Hyper-V can be installed. Hyper-V is an additional Server-Role for Windows which can be added within the Server manager. On

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