As of today, we offer you FreeBSD 11.1 as an additional operating system for your VPS and dedicated servers. You can combine it with the Software RAID 1. If you are already using our services, you can easily switch to FreeBSD 11.1 through your customer control panel. One more thing, which is most likely interesting […]
Not long ago, we have shown you in a different tutorial how to manage your raidcontroller in Linux. Below you can find the respective guideline for Windows. Monitoring a RAID array A hardware RAID has certain advantages, but also a hardware RAID has to be monitored. We always rely on tried and tested hardware to
Please note: This tutorial focusses on Linux OS. Should you be a Windows user instead, please confer our respective tutorial on how to manage your RAID controller in Windows. Monitoring a RAID array A hardware RAID has certain advantages, but also a hardware RAID has to be monitored. We always rely on tried and tested
As recently reported, we continuously expand our data centers in order to meet the increasing demand for hosting solutions. In order to ensure that you are still perfectly connected to the internet in spite of the many new servers we build every day, we have enhanced our data center connectivity with two additional 10 Gbit/s
A brief update regarding our Linux OS: As of today, we offer you the brand new Fedora 27 for your VPS and Dedicated Servers, it replaces the previous version 26. It can be combined with the Software RAID 1 and Webmin and an installation via VNC is possible as well. If you are currently using
Not only are we constantly improving and expanding our data centers, as reported recently. At the same time, we are publishing useful tutorials, which offer you solutions and short cuts for common issues and hopefully simplify the administration of your virtual or dedicated server. Did you know that we have created a special section on
Our own tutorials section provides many helpful hints and tricks Read More »
Over the last couple of weeks and due to the turn of the year, it has been a little bit quiet here in our blog. But this does not mean that we have been idle during that time. Quite the contrary: Thanks to you, our valued customers and the many new customers we convince from
The year 2017 is coming to an end and we would like to take the chance and say 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 continue our successful journey together with you next year!
Towards the end of the year 2017, we have some great news for you! Have you ever dreamed of creating your own website with just a few clicks? Well…then you might want to continue reading, because we have got a brand new feature: The Contabo Website Builder. From now on, it is available for existing
Today we would like to give you some basic usage hints about our webspace packages. First of all, our webspace offers are based on cPanel which is well known and under active development. However, we would like to explain some points and present the most important features. In this post we will refer to the
We are often asked which panel we would recommend. Since there is a variety of different panels with different functions and focus, we cannot easily answer this question. Currently we offer cPanel, Plesk, LAMP und Webmin, which we will introduce here. cPanel/WHM cPanel is a webhosting panel which allows to administrate a great number of
Comparison of administration panels: cPanel vs. Plesk vs. Webmin Read More »
Great news from inside Contabo: The German IT magazine „CHIP“ has thoroughly tested the hotlines of several providers. Among companies from other industries, 14 hosting providers were part of that study, which was conducted in cooperation with the market research experts from the well-known institution “Statista”. Calling every provider at least 50 times at different
CHIP Hotline-Test 2018: First place for Contabo! Read More »
This is a follow-up to the tutorial How to install an e-mail server in Windows, directed to those who already have an hMailserver and want to increase the security. Spam protection To activate the spam protection, please go to Settings >> Anti-spam in the hMailserver Administrator. In the tab “General” you can leave the settings
E-mail server in Windows Server, part 2: Security Read More »
You want to send and receive e-mails with your Windows server and connect to it by using your clients on PC, smartphone or tablet? In this tutorial we will explain how you can setup your own e-mail server on a Windows system with a static public IP. This tutorial will work for our VPS as
How to install an e-mail server in Windows Server Read More »
Today, we have got some great news for you: The experts at HostingAdvice have carefully examined us and our services and published a detailed review about us. Besides our products, namely the webspace plans as well as our VPS and dedicated servers, they also checked and compared our overall features, our prices and the usability.