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
In this tutorial, we are going to mount an additional hard disk in Linux. 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
In this tutorial, we are going to mount an additional hard drive in Windows. As you may notice, we will do so in Windows Server 2012, but the procedure is basically the same with Windows Server 2008. At first, we need to open a menu by right-clicking the Start button: We must select Disk Management
Only a few weeks have passed since we equipped all Contabo webspace plans with more than 300 different and pre-installed PHP applications for you. Today, we did it again and improved the main features of our webspace plans, too. Our goal is as simple as ambitious: We want to offer the best webspace within the
Yesterday we have been informed by one our clients that spring fever does not only exist among human beings but probably also among servers – to be more precise, among two of our servers located in our data center. The following has happened to the client’s server: Today we wanted to perform some renames over
We pimped our webspace plans for you – to a higher level than ever before. As of now all Contabo webspace plans include an auto-installer that allows the installation of more than 300 different web applications such as WordPress, Drupal, Typo3, Magento, Joomla and many more with just a single click. It was our aim
Yesterday a so-called “Black Building Test” (BBT) as part of our ongoing maintenance and testing of technical systems was successfully performed. During this test we simulated a complete blackout of the public power supply in our data center. In “real life” such a blackout can be caused, for instance, by works on mains electricity or
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In our dedicated servers we use high-performance hardware. Rent your own root server with either Linux or Windows, already from 49.99 EUR per month. Individual configuration options and upgrades such as the installation of cPanel or Plesk allow you to manage your server easily. Our server overview at a glance: Dedicated Server Quad – only
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In this post I want to show you how to create a basic full backup of your file system and how to restore it. A Linux system with root access is required. It does not matter whether it is a Dedicated Server or VPS. Important: The following commands were tested with Ubuntu 14.04 (64 Bit).