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dedicated servers — written for people who actually run the machines.
dedicated servers — written for people who actually run the machines.
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Fiber Optic Cables at Our Data Center
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at fiber optic cables being installed at our Frankfurt Data Center.

Data Center Cabinets: Arrived and Mounted
This behind-the-scenes post shows you how we set up data center cabinets and cooling cabinets at our Data Center.

Secure and Isolated Server Environments with Unlimited Traffic: Introducing Private Networking
Today, we launched Private Networking, isolated server environments between Cloud VPS and VDS instances. You can now either create private networks between VPS instances, or cross-pollinated VPS and…

Intel Processors: Core vs Pentium vs Celeron
Intel processors have confusing brand names and variants. Here are the differences between Intel Core, Pentium, and Celeron.

Self-Managed Server Access Problems
Sometimes, our customers teach us a thing or two and help us troubleshoot their self-managed server. Read on to see what we learned!

The Contabo Blog has Arrived!
We’re proud to launch the Contabo blog, which features company news, product updates, tutorials, and customer stories. Take a look around!

The Ultimate Guide to Docker installation and deployment using Cloud-Init
Setting up Docker and instantly deploying a Container over and over again can be time consuming. With Cloud-Init this just takes a few seconds!

Get LAMP Stack Up and Running on Your Server in Less than 90 Seconds using Cloud-Init
LAMP Stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL & PHP) is widely used for Web applications. In this article we will show you how to set up and run LAMP on…

