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Latest articles
Advantages of ZFS
ZFS as a rather new filesystem offers various advantages in comparison to regular filesystems like ext3, ext4 and NTFS. We have summarized the most noticeable ones as follows:…
Manage Windows Updates in Windows 2016
In Windows Server 2016, the administration of the (automatic) Windows Updates has changed slightly. The following tutorial will show you how to check and manage the Windows updates…
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
At the end of the year, we would like to thank you, our long and loyal customers, for the trustful cooperation in the past 12 months. The entire…
NEW operating system available at Contabo: Arch Linux
Great news: From now on we offer you a completely new operating system, namely Arch Linux! It is available for all your VPS and Dedicated Servers! What’s even…
NEW at Contabo: Fedora 25 and Suse Leap 42.2
From now on, we offer you Fedora in its latest version 25, it replaces the previous version 24. Likewise, Suse Leap received an update and the new version…
Available now: Windows Server 2016
Not long ago, Microsoft officially launched its latest operating system for server systems, Windows Server 2016. We immediately went to work and performed numerous functionality tests and thus…
Let’s Encrypt!
In times when data security is an important topic, encryption is a vital part of it. Unfortunately, in most cases, it is a complex task which many users…
Always be up to date with our server status notification!
Some of you have probably clicked on the link “Server Status” on our website contabo.com already and were forwarded to our status website. In the very rare case…