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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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
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…