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
In this tutorial, we are going to mount an additional hard disk in Linux. If you’re not sure about your admin rights, always enter the command sudo -i at the beginning of every session: sudo -i This command will grant you the rights of a power user, so you don’t have to write the command
Yesterday we have been informed by one our clients that spring fever does not only exist among human beings but probably also among servers – to be more precise, among two of our servers located in our data center. The following has happened to the client’s server: Today we wanted to perform some renames over
Yesterday a so-called “Black Building Test” (BBT) as part of our ongoing maintenance and testing of technical systems was successfully performed. During this test we simulated a complete blackout of the public power supply in our data center. In “real life” such a blackout can be caused, for instance, by works on mains electricity or
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For more than 10 years already, we offer hosting solutions for all needs – whether one is a professional Web designer getting his business online, or simply has a small hobby site. Contabo has the right hosting plan for everyone. Hosting with us has a lot of advantages one can benefit from: An established company:
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The first and second part of my overview about the history of Contabo was about our beginning on the hosting market and our rapid and continuous growth up to the year 2007. Now let’s move to 2008. Please find again on the chronicle below what has happened in 2008: In 2008 we relocated more than
In our last blog post we have already given you an overview about the history of Contabo since its foundation. Now we would like to move on into 2006. For a better understanding keep again an eye on the chronicle of Contabo: In March 2006 we opened our first office in the heart of Munich.
A few days ago Katharina gave you a detailed overview about the history of Contabo in her blog post “Contabo through the ages! The story so far…”. Based on the mentioned most important milestones of the past 10 years we are going to publish now and within the next few days some pictures, photos and
We are working continously hard to improve the infrastructure of our data center although it is already very reliable. Furthermore, we have a lot of control mechanisms which are detecting problems even before they might have an effect at all. However, despite these security mechanisms we can not entirely eliminate the risk of short temporary