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 […]
First of all, we wish you a Happy New Year 2019! We hope you had a good start to the new year and wish you much success, health and good resolutions for the next months 🙂 At the end of last year, we ran our Contabo Christmas Contest. In the meantime, we have drawn the
Towards the end of the year, we would like to THANK YOU to all of you, our loyal customers and partners, for your trust in our services and the great cooperation this year. We are looking forward to all the exciting things that will happen next year and to continue our successful journey together with
Black Friday and Cyber Monday is nice to have, but we have got something bigger and better for you! This year, we came up with the Contabo Christmas Contest for you, our valued customers! Share and Particpiate! Honestly, it is that simple! Visit our Facebook page and share our Christmas-Contest post (right at the top
Once again, we have great news from inside Contabo: This year, too, the well-known German IT magazine CHIP and the research institution Statista have tested the hotlines of German providers during the past months. After more than 8.900 test calls the best hotlines for new customers were determined among 147 companies from 12 industries. We
Some of you have probably yearned for it already 😀 now is the time: The brand new Fedora 29 is available at Contabo now for all of your virtual and dedicated servers! It replaces the previous version, Fedora 28. You can order it with the Software RAID 1 and Webmin and an installation via VNC
Again this year, the experts from HostingAdvice have written a thorough report about us. In their new article, they especially praise our philosophy to offer our customers a wide range of hosting solutions, always with a focus on the ongoing developments on the hosting market and a constantly changing demand from you, our valued clients.
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The new Plesk Onyx 17.8 is available for some time now, and maybe you are using it already. If not, you might consider to order your next (virtual) server with Plesk Onyx. In case you are still unsure if Plesk is the right administration panel for your needs, we would like to introduce some of
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Just a few days ago, we have informed you about the special offers for our dedicated servers. We admit, that was just the beginning and now we’ve got something BIG for you: Our brand-new VPS offers, featuring a new entry-level model, the VPS S SSD! As you are surely aware, all around the world VPS
The summer is coming to an end here in Germany and the vacation time is over as well. This can be frustrating for some and in order to not to let it get that far, we currently have some special offers for our Dedicated Servers, which hopefully will make you feel good. The best thing:
Special offer: Discounts on many dedicated servers! Read More »
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
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
Back in February, we have informed you about our new uplink to the AMS-IX. Now in July, we are happy to let you know that we have doubled the connectivity. From now on, we are connected with two 10 Gbit/s uplinks to the AMS-IX! Located in Amsterdam, it is one of the biggest Internet exchange
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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
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