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 […]
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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
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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.
From now on and by your request, we offer you an internet connection of 10 Gbit/s (for every server) for our dedicated servers Dual Xeon and 10-Core. With this upgrade, your server will receive an Internet uplink of 10 Gbit/s (=10.000 Mbit/s) instead of the regular port. We use a high-quality network card from Intel
This year, as we have proudly informed you earlier, we won the German Data Center Award for our data center in Nuremberg. An independent jury awarded us first place in category 6: “Increase in energy efficiency through reconstruction in an existing data center” Today, we show you some impressions from our cooling systems. Day and
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It does not matter if you do website hosting, provide a gameserver or use other services, if you have no space left on your HDD/SSD problems will occur. Your websites might not be reachable anymore, your players cannot connect to your gameserver or all other services will not start. To avoid this it is necessary
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With this tutorial we will explain certain types of RAID levels to you.Some of you might have already experienced a loss of data, no matter if it was an SD card holding some vacation photos or a hard disk holding important files. Losing data can be very costly if you try to restore them by
As of today, we offer you the brand new Fedora 26, it replaces the previous version 25. Additionally, Suse Leap was updated as well and the latest version 42.3 is available at Contabo! Both operating systems can be combined with the Software RAID 1 and Webmin. In addition, Fedora 26 can be installed via VNC
Everyone knows the scenario, you want to analyze an issue of your server or local computer but where to find all those log files? In the following tutorial we are going to analyze specific log files in Linux and logs in the Windows Event Viewer. An additional chapter will go through the log analysis via
Not long ago, the following rule regarding the internet connection of our VPS was in effect: 100 Mbit/s-port, when a certain traffic limit was exceeded, the port was limited to 10 Mbit/s. As of now, we have removed this limitation to less than 100 Mbit/s for you and consequently, for all of our customers. The
Today we performed some great update on our Webspace hosts, you are now able to choose between the following PHP Versions for your Website: PHP 5.6 (oldstable) PHP 7.0 (stable) PHP 7.1 (testing) To configure your desired PHP Version just login to your cPanel interface and navigate to “Software” -> “Multi PHP Manager“. To configure
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Plesk is a commercial web hosting platform initially developed by Parallels. It is available for Linux and Windows based operating systems and therefore for any operating systems offered by us. Together with our partner Plesk, we are currently offering you Plesk Obsidian one month for free. Simply select one of the below listed editions of
Just released a few days ago, already available at Contabo: Debian 9, codename Stretch. You can order the operating system with your new VPS or dedicated server. Existing customers can upgrade to Debian 9 through their customer control panel. You can combine Debian 9 with Webmin, Lamp, Webmin+LAMP and the Software Raid 1. In its
Some of you might wonder in which situations an SSL certificate should be used. This tutorial will help you to find an answer whether or not you should upgrade your website or anything else by adding encryption. The most important parts of a certificate are the public key and the private key. The following image
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 our nameservers (ns1.contabo.net, ns2.contabo.net, ns3.contabo.net) for your domains. We provide redundant servers in different data centers and you can easily manage your DNS zones over the customer control