Recently, two operating systems received an upgrade: Fedora is now available in version 24, replacing version 23. Also, CentOS 6.6 upgraded to 6.8. The latest versions are available at Contabo now! Fedora 24 can be combined with Software RAID 1 and Webmin, the installation via VNC is possible! You may combine CentOS 6.8 optionally with […]
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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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As of now we offer you the latest Linux distribution Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) as a free operating system for all of our VPS and dedicated servers. You may combine it with the Software RAID 1, Webmin, LAMP as well as Webmin + LAMP. Since PLESK does not yet offer a version which is
Recently, the operating system Fedora released its latest version, 23. From now on it is available for our VPS and dedicated server models as well, replacing the former version 22. You may combine Fedora 23 with the Software RAID 1 and the administration panel Webmin, the installation via VNC is possible! A short summary of
With WebDAV, cPanel supports a helpful function to provision your data over a web service. It works similar to a cloud based data storage and this functionality is also integrated into our Webspace packages. To utilize this feature you will have to log into your cPanel and click on the ‘Web Disk’ button under the
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WinSCP is a very useful tool for transferring data to a server. WinSCP is a graphical open source SFTP and FTP client for Windows which supports the old SCP protocol. The client offers a protected data and file transfer between different computers and allows the use of protected “tunnels”. WinSCP can be downloaded from the
For more than a year, our VPS feature SSD-Boost by default and thus offer you the best from two worlds: A lot of storage space and an incredibly fast read-write rate of your data. No surprise here – all host systems from our existing VPS-fleet include both standard HDDs and SSDs, which provide additional cache
Ordering our FTP Backup-Space is always a good choice for saving important data on an external storage. Using that backup space can be done in many different ways, I will show you some of the most reliable ones. Please note, that a connection to our backup space can only be established within our datacenter. Therefore,
Interactive Guide In case you’re experiencing issues connecting to your server, our guide will walk you through common issues and how to resolve them: If the guide couldn’t help you or if you have been redirected here, please continue with creating a report for our customer support. Diagnostics and log files If your server should
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All traffic in our network has to pass through our core-routers, additionally switch ports are configured in such a way that they only accept ethernet frames with mac addresses originating from these routers. Consequently, no layer-2 traffic is forwarded between switch ports and direct communication between servers, even when on the same subnet, is not