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How Do I Remove and Add Servers on My Existing Private Network?

Can I remove and add servers on my existing private network? You can remove and add servers to your private network setup through the Customer Control Panel by following the steps below: How do I remove and add servers on my existing private network? Log in to the Customer Control Panel. Click “Private Networking” from

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Does the Private Networking Feature Use a Firewall?

Does the Private Networking Feature a Firewall? There is currently no firewall functionality with the Private Networking feature. If you want to have one server accessible to the Internet while others are only part of the private network, use your operating system’s local firewalls to disable Internet access for the selected servers. Details…

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How Do I Access the Private Networking Feature?

What is Private Networking? Private Networking is an optional extension to the functionality of Contabo’s Virtual Private Servers (VPS) and Virtual Dedicated Servers (VDS) that allows the activated instances in the same Contabo location to communicate within a private network. The maximum network size is /22, which provides a maximum of 1024 addresses, and a

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Can I Use Mastodon With Contabo’s Object Storage?

What is Mastodon? Mastodon is a self-hosted social network platform. Contabo’s Object Storage can be used to store users’ content such as avatars, images and attachments.  Please follow the installation instructions as described here in the Mastodon docs if you’re interested in using Mastodon.  You will need the following information to setup Mastodon to work

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What is the Velero Tool?

What is the Velero tool? Velero is a free backup and disaster recovery tool for kubernetes (k8s) supporting S3 compatible Object Storage as a destination. Please follow the installation instructions here if you’re interested in using Velero. You will need the following information to setup Velero to be compatible with Contabo’s Object Storage: access_key secret_key

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What is the Virtualmin Tool?

What is the Virtualmin tool? Virtualmin is a Open Source web hosting control panel for Linux and BSD systems. Backups of Virtualmin can stored on Contabo’s Object Storage.  Please follow the installation instructions here if you’re interested in using Virtualmin. You will need the following information to setup Virtualmin with Contabo’s Object Storage: access_key secret_key

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What is the BucketAnywhere Tool?

What is the BucketAnywhere tool? Using BucketAnywhere is a Android App which allows to access S3 Object Storage on your cell phone. All you will need is: access_key secret_key Contabo’s S3 URL Your bucket name Folder (mount point) where you want make your bucket contents available How do I setup BucketAnywhere with Contabo’s Object Storage?

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What is the S3cmd Tool?

What is the S3cmd tool? S3cmdis a tool to manage buckets and files an to invoke the S3 API. You can achieve similar action with AWS CLI. S3cmd runs on Linux and Mac. Please follow the installation instruction described here if you’re interested in using the tool. Also please note you will need the following

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What is the Nextcloud Tool?

What is the Nextcloud tool? Nextcloud can be used to provide file hosting services with browser based access but also desktop and mobile applications. It can easily be connected to Contabo’s Object Storage in order to store and retrieve data. Please follow the installation instruction here if you are interested in using this tool. You

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