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Latest articles
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
At the end of the year, we would like to thank you, our long and loyal customers, for the trustful cooperation in the past 12 months. The entire…
NEW operating system available at Contabo: Arch Linux
Great news: From now on we offer you a completely new operating system, namely Arch Linux! It is available for all your VPS and Dedicated Servers! What’s even…
NEW at Contabo: Fedora 25 and Suse Leap 42.2
From now on, we offer you Fedora in its latest version 25, it replaces the previous version 24. Likewise, Suse Leap received an update and the new version…
Available now: Windows Server 2016
Not long ago, Microsoft officially launched its latest operating system for server systems, Windows Server 2016. We immediately went to work and performed numerous functionality tests and thus…
Let’s Encrypt!
In times when data security is an important topic, encryption is a vital part of it. Unfortunately, in most cases, it is a complex task which many users…
Always be up to date with our server status notification!
Some of you have probably clicked on the link “Server Status” on our website contabo.com already and were forwarded to our status website. In the very rare case…
Ubuntu 16.10 available now!
We offer you the latest Linux distribution Ubuntu 16.10 for free for all your VPS and Dedicated Servers! You can combine it with Software RAID 1, Webmin, LAMP…
Upgrading Plesk to Obsidian
With this short tutorial we will show you how to upgrade your Plesk installation to Plesk Obsidian. Before proceeding you should perform a backup of all important data.…