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
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Last week I initiated on our facebook fanpages Contabo and Contabo International a small survey on the topic „server outsourcing“. The response of course could have been a bit bigger, but at least 14 people have made their voices; so I take this opportunity to write a short blog post about the benefits of an
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We had announced it already during the past days. Giga-International will be offering a new server model shortly. Being the new highend model this new server will enter a frontline position of Giga Hostings server fleet, so to speak. In this case, the decisive factor for choosing the hardware of our new ‘flagship’ was our
An era is just about to draw to a close. The GIGA Dedicated Server XL, which has been a successfull contributor to our server fleet for years, will vanish from our portfolio shortly. This XL rootserver will only remain available for ordering from our homepage for a short while. You have got just a few
This winter we are going to expand our upstreams with an additional, high-quality carrier. In addition to the already existing, extremely reliable connections via M-Net and Telia Sonera (10 Gbit/s each) there will be yet a third 10 Gbit/s connection in our datacenter available from February 2012 on. With it we’re investing in a new
As of today, Giga-International.com is presenting their official website on FACEBOOK. Like in our company blog, we would like to use this platform to inform all interested folks specifically about our products, new developments, some interesting details about our day-to-day business and, not to forget, about ourselves. In addition, you can post your comments regarding
When it comes to supporting specifically intensive traffic applications and assisting its customers with low, even marketing-wise unusual cheap prices, in order to make their ideas and projects come true, Giga-International is looking back at a long successful history. With pride we may remind that many years ago, Giga-International was among one of the first
100 Mbit/s is not enough: 1 Gbit/s Uplink for your server available! Read More »