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Contabo Introduces New Data Center Location in the United States
Today is a big day for us at Contabo: After months of preparations, we are happy to announce the official launch of our third data center, located in…

Plesk training at Contabo
Many of you, our valued customers, already use the popular administration panel Plesk Obsidian, since it offers lots of possibilities to manage and administrate your server in an…
What’s the “Managed Server” Add-On?
Typically, we provide all of our customers with root or administrator access to their servers in order to enable you to configure your servers according to your own…

News update from Contabo: 2FA and simplified order process through the Customer Control Panel
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…
Scheduled backups in cPanel and Plesk
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,…

Black Friday Deal: No setup fees for any VPS order!
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…
Plesk Obsidian: Try many new features for free!
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…
Webspace: How to run Auto-SSL manually
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…
