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Using your nameservers in cPanel and Plesk
To use your domain in the Internet, you need to configure nameservers. The nameservers are needed to resolve the domain names into IP addresses. We recommend to use…
Contabo data center uplinks: Now 100 Gbit/s available!
We have great news for you, once again 🙂 We have enhanced our data center connectivity with two additional high-quality uplinks. The two carriers Level 3 and Telia…
Contabo wins German Data Center Award
We have some great news for you from “Inside Contabo”: During a ceremony on the evening of April 25th 2017, the winners of the “Deutscher Rechenzentrumspreis 2017” (German…
Plesk Onyx: One month for free now!
We are happy to inform you that we, in cooperation with our partner Plesk, are now offering you the popular administration panel Plesk Onyx one month for free.…
New operating systems Ubuntu 17.04 and CentOS 6.9 available now!
As of today, you can order the new operating systems Ubuntu 17.04 (replaces Ubuntu 16.10) and CentOS 6.9 (replaces CentOS 6.8) from us. Existing customers can upgrade within…
Installing Windows Hyper-V 2016 on a dedicated server
Welcome to our tutorial about installing Hyper-V on your Dedicated Server with Windows Server 2016. Step 1 Installing Hyper-V After receiving the login information to your dedicated server…
Being spoilt for choice – Windows or Linux?
The operating system is the centrepiece of a server. You can imagine how important it is to choose a fitting operating system. For servers, two operating systems have…
Changing the Windows Administrator password – The easy way
Today we are going to show you how to change your Windows Administrator password the easy way. This tutorial works with almost all Windows versions starting from Windows…
