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What’s the “Managed Server” Add-On?

Typically, we provide all of our customers with root or administrator access to their servers in order to enable you to configure your servers according to your own needs and requirements. Nonetheless, we understand ourselves as a “full service agency” at times for our customers, so we provide any support required upon request. Usually this

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Installation of a graphical user interface for Linux

All Linux-Server operating systems are installed by default without a graphical user interface (GUI). A GUI on a dedicated server can only be accessed if a KVM is connected.This tutorial will guide you through an easy installation process of the two most common GUIs for Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS.Please note that you will always have

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Advantages of ZFS

ZFS as a rather new filesystem offers various advantages in comparison to regular filesystems like ext3, ext4 and NTFS. We have summarized the most noticeable ones as follows: The main benefit of using a ZFS filesystem is guaranteed data integrity ZFS protects your data by enabling volume management on filesystem level. This feature makes “Copy

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Comparison of the different Linux distributions available at Contabo

As a valued customer of Contabo you have access to a variety of different Linux distributions, for use on all of our servers. These can be easily and automatically installed via our powerful customer control panel, which results in various benefits for our customers: – Contabo always provides the latest versions for installation on all

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How to check the health of your hard drive with smartmontools (in Linux)

A) Installation If you’re not sure about your admin rights, always enter the command sudo -i at the beginning of every session: sudo -i This command will grant you the rights of a power user, so you don’t have to write the command sudo at the beginning of every command line. To install smartmontools please

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