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How to Get Your Server Back Online: A Practical Recovery Guide

June 12, 2025 / Kamel Haouchine / Tutorials / 5 minutes of reading

Few things are more frustrating than discovering your server is down. Whether you’re running a business website, managing client projects, or hosting important applications, server downtime can quickly escalate from a minor inconvenience to a serious problem. The good news? Most server access issues can be resolved with systematic troubleshooting. This guide walks you through practical […]

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How to Change Your Payment Method with Contabo

May 9, 2025 / Kamel Haouchine / Tutorials / 3 minutes of reading

Keep your services running without a hitch—learn how to quickly and securely update your payment method in your Contabo account.

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Unlocking the Power of the Contabo API: Simplify Your Hosting Management

April 30, 2025 / Rajani Bhatia / Tutorials / 3 minutes of reading

Have you ever found yourself repeatedly logging into the Customer Control Panel for routine server management tasks? Or perhaps you’re looking to automate your hosting infrastructure as your operations grow? Many server administrators find themselves in this position as they scale their online presence. The Contabo API solves these common challenges by allowing you

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Webspace: How to run Auto-SSL manually

October 30, 2019 / Gianni-Donato / Tutorials / 2 minutes of reading

A free SSL certificate for your domain can be installed at any time within cPanel. Your website will receive automatically a free SSL certificate after 12-24 hours, however requesting the certificate manually will install it immediately. In case your browser shows the following warning when accessing your website via https:// the SSL certificate might not

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Data center uplinks: 200 Gbit/s at Contabo now!

October 1, 2019 / Markus / Company News / 1 minute of reading

Constant readers of our blog and our existing customers now it already: We are continuously working on improvements! This involves not just our regular systems, but also our infrastructure – in this special case our data center connectivity: Recently, we have increased it by an additional 70 Gbit/s. Now we are connected to the Internet

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Contabo customer survey 2019

May 23, 2019 / Markus / Company News / 2 minutes of reading

We have repeated our customer survey 2018 this year and once again asked you, our existing customers, to answer a few questions about us and our services. Just like last year, the participation was outstanding. In just a couple of days, more than 9000 customers took part and we would like to thank all of

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Establishing a connection to your server via SSH

June 11, 2018 / Julian / Tutorials / 3 minutes of reading

In this tutorial you will find a guide on how to establish a connection via SSH to your Linux server. Please note that you will have to replace the place holder <IP Address> in the complete tutorial with the IP address of your server. Linux In case you are using a Linux operating system on

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Just released: Plesk Onyx available now!

October 17, 2016 / Markus / Company News / 2 minutes of reading

As of today, we offer you the latest version of the administration panel Plesk Onyx for your VPS and Dedicated Servers. Just released by Parallels, you can get this brand-new version from us already – after all, we always want to offer you the latest version of every software and we do not want to

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Comparison of the different Linux distributions available at Contabo

September 8, 2016 / Philipp / Tutorials / 3 minutes of reading

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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Special offer: Dedicated Server 10-Core one month for free!

August 24, 2016 / Markus / Company News / 2 minutes of reading

Here in Germany, the temperatures are heating up once again towards the end of summer – reason enough for us to join the party and offer you something special: As of now and for a limited time only, you can get our brand new Dedicated Server 10-Core one month for free! The Dedicated Server is

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Webhostlist: First place for Contabo

July 22, 2016 / Markus / Company News / 1 minute of reading

The web hosting portal Webhostlist continuously examines hosting providers and honors the best in each quarterly period. In the second quarter of 2016, Contabo was awarded first place in the categories “Best Service” and “Best Price-Performance Ratio”! The selection procedure is based on high requirements. Based on strict criteria the website reviews each provider and

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No summer break at Contabo: Our new VPS plans are unbeatable!

July 13, 2016 / Markus / Company News / 3 minutes of reading

Summer break? Not at Contabo! We have worked extremely hard and updated our entire VPS portfolio for you. The result? Massive performance boosts combined with price reductions. The VPS of our 100% SSD series especially benefit from this extensive overhaul. In the host systems of these VPS, we have built in only the latest and

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Price reduction for Contabo rootservers!

June 15, 2016 / Markus / Company News / 1 minute of reading

On time for the beginning of summer we reduce the prices once again with the intention to enable everyone a cheap and attractive entry (or upgrade) into the world of Dedicated Servers. Therefore we lower the monthly price of our three cheapest servers for another 10 Euro. In detail, the following rootservers benefit from our

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(R)evolution: Dedicated Server 10-Core available now!

June 3, 2016 / Markus / Company News / 1 minute of reading

Evolution is simply natural selection.The laws of nature ultimately decide, what will exist and what won’t exist. Contabo proudly presents you the latest outcome of the evolutionary process among servers. Just released a couple of weeks ago, we have this new server in stock for you already: The Dedicated Server 10-Core! Featuring Intel’s brand-new Xeon

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Mounting of additional hard drives in Windows

June 19, 2015 / Florian / Tutorials / 2 minutes of reading

In this tutorial, we are going to mount an additional hard drive in Windows. As you may notice, we will do so in Windows Server 2012, but the procedure is basically the same with Windows Server 2008. At first, we need to open a menu by right-clicking the Start button: We must select Disk Management

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