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 […]
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
For hosting in a datacenter – or expressed in a more fashionable way – storing data in ‘the cloud’, there is one crucial factor: A top quality, fast and secure Internet connection of the servers within the datacenter. Only this makes it possible to retrieve and make use of the data, stored and processed in
Price reduction: Internet bandwidth, now almost for free! Read More »
Effective of today we change the official name for our virtual servers. Our offered hosting solution V-Server is called VPS from now on. VPS is the shortcut for Virtual Private Server. After long consideration we have decided on a name change, because our experiences have shown that our customers prefer the more common name VPS,
Just a short confirmation: In December 2011 we said that we are going to expand our upstreams with an additional, high-quality carrier: Level 3. This has been completed in March 2012. Thus, since the 1st of April we’ve been online with 3 x 10 Gbit/s including Level 3, Telia Sonera International Carrier and M-Net. All
We had announced it already during the past days. Giga-International will be offering a new server model shortly. Being the new highend model this new server will enter a frontline position of Giga Hostings server fleet, so to speak. In this case, the decisive factor for choosing the hardware of our new ‘flagship’ was our
An era is just about to draw to a close. The GIGA Dedicated Server XL, which has been a successfull contributor to our server fleet for years, will vanish from our portfolio shortly. This XL rootserver will only remain available for ordering from our homepage for a short while. You have got just a few
This winter we are going to expand our upstreams with an additional, high-quality carrier. In addition to the already existing, extremely reliable connections via M-Net and Telia Sonera (10 Gbit/s each) there will be yet a third 10 Gbit/s connection in our datacenter available from February 2012 on. With it we’re investing in a new
Outside, red hot and tropical weather conditions, but the servers located at Giga-Hosting’s datacenter, always keep a ‘cool processor’. Thanks to 7 climate cabinets in our datacenter and to 2 cooling units on the roof top, a consistent decent temperature is kept, to care for the servers on our server floor. In April 2011, the
Number of the month: 2 + 7 = Decent Temperature! Read More »
It’s summer in Munich. Although today it’s a rather rainy day and the temperature isn’t higher than 15 degrees during the day, it’s still June and it’s still one of the warmest months in the year. With respect to the facts mentioned above it seems even more remarkable to me that both of our fully
The cluster system for your individual requirements. High performance, high stability and low price. Regardless which hardware component might fail or how the number of web site visitors might increase – your web presence will remain 24/7 online. The Giga Linux Cluster is built not only to prevent service outages, but also to provide the
Almost exactly 2 years ago we established a new datacenter with enough room for 4000 servers in Munich. This has been done in order to face the growing demand in colocation and dedicated servers and to reach an even higher quality level. The same building also contains our office rooms which enables us to deliver
This time the number of the month represents the number of our 22 state-of-the-art Rittal racks which have been set up for the new colocation servers of our customers. Each of those 22 Rittal racks is equipped with lockable doors and additional roof ventilation. We have installed these racks during the last months in addition