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
All Linux-Server operating systems are installed by default without a graphical user interface (GUI). A GUI on a dedicated server can only be accessed if a KVM is connected.This tutorial will guide you through an easy installation process of the two most common GUIs for Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS.Please note that you will always have
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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
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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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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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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
Shortly after the release of CentOS 7.0 we would like to offer you as well the brand new version of the Linux distribution CentOS. As of now, the new version can already be ordered on our website. However, the previous version, CentOS 6.5, will remain available at Contabo. The current version supports upgrades such as