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 have been connected with additional 2 x 10 Gbit/s to our backbone. With regard to the internet connection of our data centers, we don’t accept any compromises
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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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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 you might want to find out how Hyper-V can be installed. Hyper-V is an additional Server-Role for Windows which can be added within the Server manager. On
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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 established themselves: Windows and Linux. In this short overview, I’d like to present you the main differences between those two operating systems. You might have heard
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 XP/NT (Windows Server 2003). On Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016 you should make sure that you are using local user accounts – not any online accounts.
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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: The main benefit of using a ZFS filesystem is guaranteed data integrity ZFS protects your data by enabling volume management on filesystem level. This feature makes “Copy
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 for your Windows Server 2016 system. 1. Please connect to your server using RDP and open the Settings App via the Start menu. Afterwards you can click
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 better: Arch Linux will always be up to date, which means you will always get the latest version! You can combine it with the Software RAID 1
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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 42.2 is available now at Contabo! Both operating systems can be combined with the Software RAID 1 and Webmin. In addition, Fedora 25 can be installed via
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 ensured a smooth integration in our systems. Today we can finally say: Windows Server 2016 is available as an upgrade for all our root servers and VPS