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 better: Arch Linux will always be up to date, which means you will always get the latest version! You can combine it with the Software RAID 1 […]
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As a valued customer of Contabo you have access to a variety of different Linux distributions, for use on all of our servers. These can be easily and automatically installed via our powerful customer control panel, which results in various benefits for our customers: – Contabo always provides the latest versions for installation on all
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A) Installation If you’re not sure about your admin rights, always enter the command sudo -i at the beginning of every session: sudo -i This command will grant you the rights of a power user, so you don’t have to write the command sudo at the beginning of every command line. To install smartmontools please
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In this tutorial, we are going to mount an additional hard disk in Linux. If you’re not sure about your admin rights, always enter the command sudo -i at the beginning of every session: sudo -i This command will grant you the rights of a power user, so you don’t have to write the command
In this post I want to show you how to create a basic full backup of your file system and how to restore it. A Linux system with root access is required. It does not matter whether it is a Dedicated Server or VPS. Important: The following commands were tested with Ubuntu 14.04 (64 Bit).
Have you ever asked yourself whats better: Windows or Linux? In this article we will discuss the advantages of both!
The cluster system for your individual requirements. High performance, high stability and low price. Regardless which hardware component might fail or how the number of web site visitors might increase – your web presence will remain 24/7 online. The Giga Linux Cluster is built not only to prevent service outages, but also to provide the
Choosing between WireGuard vs Tailscale? WireGuard offers complete control and predictable performance. Tailscale automates the complexity but trades privacy for ease. This guide breaks down performance, configuration, costs, and when to use each.
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Nextcloud vs OwnCloud vs FileCloud: Discover which self-hosted platform offers the best security, pricing, and features for you.
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Keep your self-hosted n8n instance current with this step-by-step update guide. Learn how to safely pull the latest version, restart containers, and verify everything works – all in about five minutes using Docker Compose on your Contabo server,
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