Analysing log files in Windows and Linux
Everyone knows the scenario, you want to analyze an issue of your server or local computer but where to find all those log files? In the following tutorial…
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Plesk basics: The first steps
Plesk is a commercial web hosting platform initially developed by Parallels. It is available for Linux and Windows based operating systems and therefore for any operating systems offered…
New OS: Debian 9 available now!
Just released a few days ago, already available at Contabo: Debian 9, codename Stretch. You can order the operating system with your new VPS or dedicated server. Existing…
The SSL certificate
Some of you might wonder in which situations an SSL certificate should be used. This tutorial will help you to find an answer whether or not you should…
Contabo data center uplinks: Now 100 Gbit/s available!
We have great news for you, once again 🙂 We have enhanced our data center connectivity with two additional high-quality uplinks. The two carriers Level 3 and Telia…
New operating systems Ubuntu 17.04 and CentOS 6.9 available now!
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…
Installing Windows Hyper-V 2016 on a dedicated server
Welcome to our tutorial about installing Hyper-V on your Dedicated Server with Windows Server 2016. Step 1 Installing Hyper-V After receiving the login information to your dedicated server…
Being spoilt for choice – Windows or Linux?
The operating system is the centrepiece of a server. You can imagine how important it is to choose a fitting operating system. For servers, two operating systems have…
Changing the Windows Administrator password – The easy way
Today we are going to show you how to change your Windows Administrator password the easy way. This tutorial works with almost all Windows versions starting from Windows…
Advantages of ZFS
ZFS as a rather new filesystem offers various advantages in comparison to regular filesystems like ext3, ext4 and NTFS. We have summarized the most noticeable ones as follows:…
Manage Windows Updates in Windows 2016
In Windows Server 2016, the administration of the (automatic) Windows Updates has changed slightly. The following tutorial will show you how to check and manage the Windows updates…
NEW operating system available at Contabo: Arch Linux
Great news: From now on we offer you a completely new operating system, namely Arch Linux! It is available for all your VPS and Dedicated Servers! What's even…
NEW at Contabo: Fedora 25 and Suse Leap 42.2
From now on, we offer you Fedora in its latest version 25, it replaces the previous version 24. Likewise, Suse Leap received an update and the new version…
Available now: Windows Server 2016
Not long ago, Microsoft officially launched its latest operating system for server systems, Windows Server 2016. We immediately went to work and performed numerous functionality tests and thus…
Upgrading Plesk to Obsidian
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.…