Towards the end of last year, we already announced exciting news and developments at Contabo, which will happen throughout this year! Today we are happy to provide you with the first update in this regard. We listened to your feedback and your wishes and consequently implemented two additional features in your Customer Control Panel (CCP): […]
Creating backups is a very important task for every server administrator. A loss of data often occurs suddenly without a warning. It is possible to create backups manually, but we would recommend to configure automatic backups. The steps below were tested by us, but you should always check yourself if the backups are still running
In case you know us already, you are surely aware that we offer an unbeatable price-/performance ratio. Some even say that at Contabo, every day feels like Black Friday! But this year we take it to the next level and for the first time, we offer you a special Black Friday deal: No setup fees
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The new Plesk Obsidian is available for quite a while now. Time for us to introduce it and, as the title of the posting suggests, make you aware of our exclusive promotion with Plesk: You can try Plesk Obsidian one month for free in combination with every VPS and dedicated server at Contabo! Just select
A free SSL certificate for your domain can be installed at any time within cPanel. Your website will receive automatically a free SSL certificate after 12-24 hours, however requesting the certificate manually will install it immediately. In case your browser shows the following warning when accessing your website via https:// the SSL certificate might not
Those of you who follow us closely or use our servers for their projects know it already: We always offer you the latest versions of the popular Linux operating systems. This includes the brand new Cent OS 8! As of now, you can select Cent OS 8 for your new virtual or dedicated server! Existing
Constant readers of our blog and our existing customers now it already: We are continuously working on improvements! This involves not just our regular systems, but also our infrastructure – in this special case our data center connectivity: Recently, we have increased it by an additional 70 Gbit/s. Now we are connected to the Internet
This tutorial shows you how to prepare your Debian VPS for hosting your website.We are not going to perform any fine-tuning or optimization on the default configuration files. So neither NGINX, MySQL or PHP (LEMP) will get any other than the necessary configuration changes in order to run a website properly. 1. Install the Software
This tutorial will show you how to create a blog and publish it world wide in just a couple of minutes. The requirement for the Softaculous automatic WordPress installation is a Webspace package L or higher.Alternatively, WordPress can be installed manually by uploading files via FTP. 1. Login to your cPanel account after receiving the
All Linux-Server operating systems are installed by default without a graphical user interface (GUI). A GUI on a dedicated server can only be accessed if a KVM is connected.This tutorial will guide you through an easy installation process of the two most common GUIs for Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS.Please note that you will always have
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