Plesk Backup Manager
Regularly creating backups of your data is crucial in order to avoid a surprise loss of data. With the Plesk Backup Manager you can set up and manage your own backups easily – we explain how to do that.
High Performance Veeam Backup Target: How to configure your environment
Taking regular backups of your important data is crucial to avoid a surprisingly and costly loss of data. We show you step-by-step how to easily configure your backup routine with the Veeam backup software tool in a Windows Server setup.
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Scheduled backups in cPanel and Plesk
Creating backups is a very important task for every server administrator. A loss of data often occurs suddenly without a warning. It is possible to create backups manually, but we would recommend to configure automatic backups. The steps below were tested by us, but you should always check yourself if the backups are still running
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
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
Webspace: Creating a Blog in Minutes
This tutorial will show you how to create a blog and publish it world wide in just a couple of minutes. The requirement for the Softaculous automatic WordPress installation is a Webspace package L or higher.Alternatively, WordPress can be installed manually by uploading files via FTP. 1. Login to your cPanel account after receiving the
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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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
Migration using Plesk
The migration of a website is always a challenging task for the webmaster. Beside a loss of reputation and ranking on search engines, dead links or famous 404-errors, there are some other risks during such a migration. But often it is more dangerous to leave the website on an old server, since old software can
Installation of Softaculous in Plesk and cPanel
Softaculous offers a huge number of scripts which can be installed by the popular „Auto Installer“ under the Plesk and cPanel administration. For Plesk you can activate Softaculous only on a Linux operating system. The free version gives you access to more than 50 scripts whereas the fee-based, fully-licensed version offers around 450 scripts. An
SRV Records – How do I use them correctly?
Definition of an SRV record With a Service Resource Record (short: SRV record) you can make services, which are usually available via an IP:PORT combination, reachable using a DNS host name. Important to note regarding SRV record is the fact, that they only work if an application has been specifically programmed to make use of
Full Monitoring
The optional upgrade Full Monitoring from Contabo is an extensive monitoring tool for your VPS and Dedicated Servers. We are going to present the features of this tool in this tutorial. Why Full Monitoring? By the help of Full Monitoring, outages can be detected quickly. The key benefit of this tool is the immediate notification
Mounting local HDDs via RDP
With RDP it is not only possible to connect to a Windows server. You can also mount local HDDs on the remote Windows server in order to directly transfer data. In this tutorial this process is described step by step. By the way: In a separate tutorial, we explain how you can connect to your
How do I connect to my Windows server via RDP?
This tutorial will show you how to connect to your Windows VPS or dedicated server at Contabo via RDP from different operating systems. The following scenarios will be covered: Connections from desktop operating systems: Establishing a RDP connection from WindowsOS (e.g. Windows 7, 8, 10) Establishing a RDP connection from LinuxOS (e.g. Debian, Ubuntu) Establishing
Establishing a connection to your server via SSH
In this tutorial you will find a guide on how to establish a connection via SSH to your Linux server. Please note that you will have to replace the place holder <IP Address> in the complete tutorial with the IP address of your server. Linux In case you are using a Linux operating system on
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