HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Contabo (formerly known as Giga-International) wishes you all a happy and healthy New Year.
Giga-International becomes Contabo!
Now it’s official. Our company name has changed to Contabo! As of today Giga-International will operate under a new company name called Contabo GmbH. The re-branding is just the first step for a global expansion that we have in mind. The new year 2013 has begun and we have taken this opportunity to bring a
GIGA V-Servers are called VPS from now on!
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,
“I’m thinking about continuing & renewing my server. EVERYTHING JUST, BECAUSE CUSTOMER SUPPORT IS GREAT”
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
Windows Server 2012 available now!
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
1.000 Facebook fans!!!
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
Making business with domains including typing-errors!
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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Every voice counts…
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:
A Second that could make a difference and bring your server down!!! – The buggy lil ‘leap second bug’
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
“No Nightmares anymore…..
…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
Secure Password Selection
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
Our international affiliate program has been launched
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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Our third 10Gbit/s upstream (Level 3) is online
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
Launch of our new customer login area
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
Windows vs. Linux – Whats Better?
Have you ever asked yourself whats better: Windows or Linux? In this article we will discuss the advantages of both!