Typically, we provide all of our customers with root or administrator access to their servers in order to enable you to configure your servers according to your own needs and requirements. Nonetheless, we understand ourselves as a “full service agency” at times for our customers, so we provide any support required upon request. Usually this […]
At Contabo, we always offer you the latest version of many popular Linux operating systems. This tutorial shows you how to upgrade from an old version to the latest Debian (stable) or Ubuntu LTS. Important: Before proceeding make sure to have a local backup of all important files, the upgrade might fail and your server
This tutorial will show you how to connect to your Windows VPS or dedicated server at Contabo via RDP from different operating systems. The following scenarios will be covered: Connections from desktop operating systems: Establishing a RDP connection from WindowsOS (e.g. Windows 7, 8, 10) Establishing a RDP connection from LinuxOS (e.g. Debian, Ubuntu) Establishing
Not long ago, we have shown you in a different tutorial how to manage your raidcontroller in Linux. Below you can find the respective guideline for 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 hardware to
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
Today we would like to give you some basic usage hints about our webspace packages. First of all, our webspace offers are based on cPanel which is well known and under active development. However, we would like to explain some points and present the most important features. In this post we will refer to the
With this tutorial we will explain certain types of RAID levels to you.Some of you might have already experienced a loss of data, no matter if it was an SD card holding some vacation photos or a hard disk holding important files. Losing data can be very costly if you try to restore them by
With this short tutorial we will show you how to upgrade your Plesk installation to Plesk Obsidian. Before proceeding you should perform a backup of all important data. An upgrade always bears the risk of data loss. On an SSD VPS you will have the ability to create a snapshot, creating a snapshot will give
Sometimes, it is necessary to change your partition layout in order to create new partitions or extend an existing partition, for example after a VPS / VDS upgrade. This tutorial shows how to easily change your partition layout on your VPS or VDS. Please be advised to perform a backup of all important data before
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The file system check is is a practical tool if an error occurs in your file system and your server is not booting any more. With this tool you can analyse and repair such errors in your file system. We recommend to backup all your data before you start with this operation, because there could