Recently, the operating system Fedora released its latest version, 23. From now on it is available for our VPS and dedicated server models as well, replacing the former version 22. You may combine Fedora 23 with the Software RAID 1 and the administration panel Webmin, the installation via VNC is possible! A short summary of […]
Now that is some news we’ve got for you: This November, we have enhanced our data center connectivity with an additional, high quality uplink. Besides the three already existing, extremely reliable upstreams via M-Net (10 Gbit/s), Telia Sonera (2 x 10 Gbit/s) and Level 3 (2 x 10 Gbit/s), another 10 Gbit/s-connection is now available.
Again CHIP, a well-known German IT magazine, has conducted a comprehensive, two-month-long study to test the customer hotlines of more than 170 companies from different industries, including web hosting. After we were awarded the trophy in the category “speed” last year, we finished in first place in the category “speed / waiting time” this year!
With WebDAV, cPanel supports a helpful function to provision your data over a web service. It works similar to a cloud based data storage and this functionality is also integrated into our Webspace packages. To utilize this feature you will have to log into your cPanel and click on the ‘Web Disk’ button under the
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2015 is not done yet, neither are we! After releasing our brand new VPS with 100% SSD disk space just a few weeks ago, we have just now erased the setup-fees for our VPS with HDD + SSD boost: 0€ – even if you rent our VPS for the minimum contract period of one month!
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WinSCP is a very useful tool for transferring data to a server. WinSCP is a graphical open source SFTP and FTP client for Windows which supports the old SCP protocol. The client offers a protected data and file transfer between different computers and allows the use of protected “tunnels”. WinSCP can be downloaded from the
The file system check is is a practical tool if an error occurs in your file system and your server is not booting any more. With this tool you can analyse and repair such errors in your file system. We recommend to backup all your data before you start with this operation, because there could
For more than a year, our VPS feature SSD-Boost by default and thus offer you the best from two worlds: A lot of storage space and an incredibly fast read-write rate of your data. No surprise here – all host systems from our existing VPS-fleet include both standard HDDs and SSDs, which provide additional cache
Servers you order at Contabo will be installed in English language by default. If you want to change the display language the following guide will help you to perform this on your Windows Server 2008 R2 step-by-step. All steps should be performed on your server directly, if you are using Internet Explorer you may need
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Time and again you, our valued customers, contact us with questions regarding the administration of your server or system. Often, your inquiries cannot be answered quickly as either a thorough answer is required, including several process steps, or a detailed preparation is necessary on our part. Now we have collected all the interesting questions that
Summer Break is finally over and we are back with even more disk space for your crucial data. From now on, our dedicated servers can be upgraded with 6000 GB HDDs – of course these are premium disks designed for 24/7 usage! They offer not just perfect data security but also an unprecedented amount of
A) Installation If you’re not sure about your admin rights, always enter the command sudo -i at the beginning of every session: sudo -i This command will grant you the rights of a power user, so you don’t have to write the command sudo at the beginning of every command line. To install smartmontools please
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Ordering our FTP Backup-Space is always a good choice for saving important data on an external storage. Using that backup space can be done in many different ways, I will show you some of the most reliable ones. Please note, that a connection to our backup space can only be established within our datacenter. Therefore,
Interactive Guide In case you’re experiencing issues connecting to your server, our guide will walk you through common issues and how to resolve them: If the guide couldn’t help you or if you have been redirected here, please continue with creating a report for our customer support. Diagnostics and log files If your server should
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All traffic in our network has to pass through our core-routers, additionally switch ports are configured in such a way that they only accept ethernet frames with mac addresses originating from these routers. Consequently, no layer-2 traffic is forwarded between switch ports and direct communication between servers, even when on the same subnet, is not