Effective of today we change the official name for our virtual servers. Our offered hosting solution V-Server is called VPS from now on. VPS is the shortcut for Virtual Private Server. After long consideration we have decided on a name change, because our experiences have shown that our customers prefer the more common name VPS, […]
On some day during the last week a very good customer who has been renting a Dedicated Server in our datacenter wrote us that he did not necessarily need the server at this time anymore, because the gameserver project he wanted to develop failed. No more need for a dedicated server you might think at
Just right after the official completion of MICROSOFT’s new operating system for server applications – entitled Windows Server 2012 – our technicians have started with working on its evaluation. We have performed numerous functionality tests for our customers and in particular the integration of this new system into our “ASI” (Automatic System Installer) System. We
Hey everyone! Today is the day we passed 1000 fans on our international Facebook page. From myself and all of us at Giga-International, thank you all for your support over the past few years. Thank you to all of our lovely fans for your comments and messages, we love to hear from you soon. Thank
Lately I found an article in the “c’t magazine” with the title „Abfischen unerwünscht“ (in english: “undesired dry fish”). It´s about the possible judicial repercussion of „typosquatting”. A “typosquatting” also called as URL-highjacking is a form of cybersquatting and possibly brandjacking which relies on mistakes such as typological errors made by internet users when inputing
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Everyone should make his or her own opinion, always and everywhere. But sometimes one needs the help and support of others. So what could be better than using opinions and experiences of existing customers as decision support. With immediate effect we offer the new category customer feedback on our website for undecided customers: Short extract:
The weekend was pretty disastrous for websites around the Internet. First, storms in United States knocked out power in Amazon’s data centres, and with it, around 1% of American websites. This included popular websites like Foursquare, Instagram, Pinterest and Netflix. Then, just as websites were hobbling back to life, the “leap second” bug struck. Timekeepers
…thank you very very much! You are an amazing company! No trouble everything always simply works.” This is just a short extract of an e-mail of a contented customer. Every time when we receive a review like that in a hosting forum or via e-mail we are very pleased about that – because this is
I would like to take this opportunity to inform you about a very important matter regarding your dealing with/in the world wide web. The importance of picking a good, secure password can’t be emphasized enough. Your password is the way the computer verifies that someone logging in is really you, so pick something that cannot
Since today the launch of our international affiliate program is finally done. We were expanding our existing distribution channel of affiliate marketing and make an affiliate program available for our international affiliates as well (https://contabo.com/en/affiliate-program/). The existing German affiliate program, that markets the main products of Giga-International like V-Servers, Webhosting and Dedicated Servers already very
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Just a short confirmation: In December 2011 we said that we are going to expand our upstreams with an additional, high-quality carrier: Level 3. This has been completed in March 2012. Thus, since the 1st of April we’ve been online with 3 x 10 Gbit/s including Level 3, Telia Sonera International Carrier and M-Net. All
Over the last months we have been working hard to implement a feature many of you have requested: a login area that allows all of you to manage all your services at Giga-International. By today, the introduction of the new system has been completed successfully and all customers have received their login credentials. This system
Have you ever asked yourself whats better: Windows or Linux? In this article we will discuss the advantages of both!
To avoid boredom in the Giga-International department we revised our hardware RAID offers for you. For those who do not know what it is exactly – here is the explanation: RAID (redundant array of independent disks) is a storage technology that combines multiple disk drive components into a logical unit. Data is distributed across the
It has been announced already here and as a countdown on facebook, but now, it’s really official: Today we are introducing a new root server model in our product portfolio named “GIGA Dedicated Server X“. Some of you may think now: “Ok, this is a new server with a little bit more power!” But that
We proudly present our new root server model “GIGA Dedicated Server X” Read More »