How to Perform a Network Speedtest
Have you ever wanted to know if your server has the specified bandwidth or how fast your internet connection is? We’ll show you how you can check it.
Have you ever wanted to know if your server has the specified bandwidth or how fast your internet connection is? We’ll show you how you can check it.
Imagine a laptop with a 500 GB disk and Windows as the operating system. By default, Windows is installed on the 500 GB disk. But what if you want to have both Windows and Linux? That’s where partitions come in.
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User rights is one of the first concepts you have to understand when dealing with Linux. This guide is ideal for users who just installed their first Linux on the computer, or for users who are starting out with their first Linux server. We wrote this article in mind to help our customers as well
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Simply password-protecting your Linux server no longer cuts it (they’re vulnerable to online and offline brute force and dictionary attacks, and people historically are terrible with maintaining secure password practices): you have to secure it with SSH keys. This tutorial will teach you what are SSH keys and how to replace the default Linux password
In the first article of this series, we explained that the existence of virtual instances like VPS is possible thanks to technology called virtualization. But how does virtualization itself work in detail? In the second part of Cloud Explained Series, we’re going to talk about how a virtual machine is connected to the hardware, what
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In this guide, we will walk you through the necessary steps to use your Contabo server. From accessing your Customer Control Panel for the first time to hardening your security, we’ll show you all the essentials to run a server. After you read this article, we recommend you dig deeper by following links to more
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The following guide will give you an overview on how to configure additional IPv4 addresses on the most popular operating systems. We designed this article to be helpful not only for our Contabo customers, but also for people using any other provider. In addition to learning how to configure IPv4 addresses, you may need to
In this guide I will show you how to connect to your VPS (or any server) using VNC. What is VNC and How Does It Work? VNC or Virtual Network Computing is a platform allowing you to control a remote computer, server or other device. It’s typically used to control your remote instance via graphical
Taking regular backups of your important data is crucial to avoid a surprisingly and costly loss of data. We show you step-by-step how to easily configure your backup routine with the Veeam backup software tool in a Windows Server setup.
High Performance Veeam Backup Target: How to configure your environment Read More »
Popular Control Panels like Plesk, cPanel or Webmin ensure that you can manage your server easily and automate tasks like regular Updates and Backups. At the same time, Control Panels offer built-in tools for Monitoring and advanced Security settings.