A lucky winner!
As you can see, the first prize has arrived at one of our lucky winners. As a thank you he sent us the following picture. Have fun with your new MyGiga Android TV Stick!
Realtime server status: Contabo-Status.com
We are working continously hard to improve the infrastructure of our data center although it is already very reliable. Furthermore, we have a lot of control mechanisms which are detecting problems even before they might have an effect at all. However, despite these security mechanisms we can not entirely eliminate the risk of short temporary
And the winner is…
We received more than 100 poems. It was really hard work to read through every poem. But now our jury finally made its decision and we can proudly present the winners of our poetry slam. But first of all, it has to be mentioned, that we received poems in German as well in English language.
Contabo through the ages! The story so far…
Contabo celebrates its 10th birthday. We would like to take this opportunity to give you a short look back on the history of our hosting company. Over the last years a lot has changed at Contabo, formerly Giga-International. However, our main concern always has remained the same: Our corporate goals: Right from the beginning we
Contabo Poetry Slam
A few days ago we started our “10 years Contabo anniversary” setup promotion – but now it’s time for our creative heads. On the occasion of our anniversary we are going to start the second part of our special events. True to the motto “Join in and win” you can show your creative side and
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CONTABO – Contabo celebrates its 10th birthday
Finally… we are celebrating our 10th birthday. Exactly 10 years ago Contabo, formerly known as Giga-Hosting and Giga-International, started with a small service-oriented approach – and now, 10 years later, we operate our own data center in the heart of Munich and are an integral part of the national and international hosting market. By the
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From Squeeze to Wheezy like a breeze!!!
Upgrading Debian 6.0 to 7.0 With the release of Debian 7.0 there are two ways that you can have this distribution installed on your VPS or Dedicated servers. One is the clean installation, this could be done using our customer control panel. This is a complete re-installation, so you will loose all your data.
WordPress Users – Your Admin Password May Get Stolen
Hackers Use Large Botnet To Gain Access. If you are using WordPress, it would be a good idea to use a very strong password and make sure your username is not ‘admin’. There is a brute Force dictionary-based attack that aims to find the password for ‘admin’ account that every WordPress site sets up
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Dedicated Server Speedtest Result
We say thank you to one of our customers who provided the impressive result of the following speedtest on our facebook wall. I would like to quote him: “Damm… That 39.99 euro was deffo worth it!” Of course, we do not want to keep back this result from you on this blog because it’s more
Price reduction: Internet bandwidth, now almost for free!
For hosting in a datacenter – or expressed in a more fashionable way – storing data in ‘the cloud’, there is one crucial factor: A top quality, fast and secure Internet connection of the servers within the datacenter. Only this makes it possible to retrieve and make use of the data, stored and processed in
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Contabo VPS XL Benchmark
We were benchmarked and you guys might be interested in checking out the results. In the following you will find a short extract of the result of the analysis. All those who are interested in further details to the benchmark results of our VPS XL are invited to click here: https://virtdeal.com/contabo-review-germany-kvm-vps-hosting/ Enjoy your weekend!
Today’s carnival!
This is the reason why all Contabo employees got “Krapfen”, a typical sweet German carnival speciality. Unfortunately I was too slow and only able to take a picture of the rest. It seems that most of us rather are carnival grumps because I haven’t seen any batman or princess yet in our office :-). But
Webhosting plans: All setup fees waived!
As of now, the setup fees on our webspace offers have come to an end. No matter which webhosting plan you choose, there will be no setup fee anymore, thus you save the 19.99 EUR which were previously required as a setup fee. This means that you can host your website with us at only
VPS XL: Now 6 instead of 4 CPU cores!
Shortly after our most recent price reduction and directly following the doubling of our VPS performance features we are even outdoing ourselves once more: From now on, we do offer our top ranking virtual private server, the VPS XL, with six CPU cores instead of four, each at a frequency of 3.2 Ghz. If it
High demand for our VPS and Dedicated Servers!
Short after our company name change we reduced the prices of our dedicated and virtual servers and some of our upgrades. Since last week our high-end server “Dedicated Server X”, which includes a powerful Intel Core i7 3930K processor, 64 GB DDR3-RAM and 256 GB SSD with 6 Gbit/s + 3 TB HDD, can already