As of today, we offer you FreeBSD 11.1 as an additional operating system for your VPS and dedicated servers. You can combine it with the Software RAID 1. If you are already using our services, you can easily switch to FreeBSD 11.1 through your customer control panel. One more thing, which is most likely interesting […]
Please note: This tutorial focusses on Linux OS. Should you be a Windows user instead, please confer our respective tutorial on how to manage your RAID controller in Windows. Monitoring a RAID array A hardware RAID has certain advantages, but also a hardware RAID has to be monitored. We always rely on tried and tested
A brief update regarding our Linux OS: As of today, we offer you the brand new Fedora 27 for your VPS and Dedicated Servers, it replaces the previous version 26. It can be combined with the Software RAID 1 and Webmin and an installation via VNC is possible as well. If you are currently using
We are often asked which panel we would recommend. Since there is a variety of different panels with different functions and focus, we cannot easily answer this question. Currently we offer cPanel, Plesk, LAMP und Webmin, which we will introduce here. cPanel/WHM cPanel is a webhosting panel which allows to administrate a great number of
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It does not matter if you do website hosting, provide a gameserver or use other services, if you have no space left on your HDD/SSD problems will occur. Your websites might not be reachable anymore, your players cannot connect to your gameserver or all other services will not start. To avoid this it is necessary
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As of today, we offer you the brand new Fedora 26, it replaces the previous version 25. Additionally, Suse Leap was updated as well and the latest version 42.3 is available at Contabo! Both operating systems can be combined with the Software RAID 1 and Webmin. In addition, Fedora 26 can be installed via VNC
Plesk is a commercial web hosting platform initially developed by Parallels. It is available for Linux and Windows based operating systems and therefore for any operating systems offered by us. Together with our partner Plesk, we are currently offering you Plesk Obsidian one month for free. Simply select one of the below listed editions of
Just released a few days ago, already available at Contabo: Debian 9, codename Stretch. You can order the operating system with your new VPS or dedicated server. Existing customers can upgrade to Debian 9 through their customer control panel. You can combine Debian 9 with Webmin, Lamp, Webmin+LAMP and the Software Raid 1. In its
To use your domain in the Internet, you need to configure nameservers. The nameservers are needed to resolve the domain names into IP addresses. We recommend to use our nameservers (ns1.contabo.net, ns2.contabo.net, ns3.contabo.net) for your domains. We provide redundant servers in different data centers and you can easily manage your DNS zones over the customer control
As of today, you can order the new operating systems Ubuntu 17.04 (replaces Ubuntu 16.10) and CentOS 6.9 (replaces CentOS 6.8) from us. Existing customers can upgrade within their customer control panel as well! Ubuntu 17.04 can be combined with Webmin, LAMP, Webmin+LAMP as well as the Software Raid 1. Apart from Webmin, LAMP, Webmin+LAMP
New operating systems Ubuntu 17.04 and CentOS 6.9 available now! Read More »