It does not matter if you do website hosting, provide a gameserver or use other services, if you have no space left on your HDD/SSD problems will occur. Your websites might not be reachable anymore, your players cannot connect to your gameserver or all other services will not start. To avoid this it is necessary […]
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As of today, we offer you the brand new Fedora 26, it replaces the previous version 25. Additionally, Suse Leap was updated as well and the latest version 42.3 is available at Contabo! Both operating systems can be combined with the Software RAID 1 and Webmin. In addition, Fedora 26 can be installed via VNC
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 we are going to analyze specific log files in Linux and logs in the Windows Event Viewer. An additional chapter will go through the log analysis via
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 customers can upgrade to Debian 9 through their customer control panel. You can combine Debian 9 with Webmin, Lamp, Webmin+LAMP and the Software Raid 1. In its
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
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
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
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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We are happy to offer you further upgrades for our operating systems: CentOS 7.2 is available now, replacing the version 7.1! You may combine it with Software RAID 1, Webmin, LAMP, Webmin+LAMP, Plesk and cPanel. Plus, the installation via VNC is possible! Also, Proxmox is available now in version 4.0, replacing 3.2. It is not
Recently, two operating systems received an upgrade: Fedora is now available in version 24, replacing version 23. Also, CentOS 6.6 upgraded to 6.8. The latest versions are available at Contabo now! Fedora 24 can be combined with Software RAID 1 and Webmin, the installation via VNC is possible! You may combine CentOS 6.8 optionally with
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Sometimes, it is necessary to change your partition layout in order to create new partitions or extend an existing partition, for example after a VPS / VDS upgrade. This tutorial shows how to easily change your partition layout on your VPS or VDS. Please be advised to perform a backup of all important data before
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As of now we offer you the latest Linux distribution Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) as a free operating system for all of our VPS and dedicated servers. You may combine it with the Software RAID 1, Webmin, LAMP as well as Webmin + LAMP. Since PLESK does not yet offer a version which is
Recently, the operating system Fedora released its latest version, 23. From now on it is available for our VPS and dedicated server models as well, replacing the former version 22. You may combine Fedora 23 with the Software RAID 1 and the administration panel Webmin, the installation via VNC is possible! A short summary of
With WebDAV, cPanel supports a helpful function to provision your data over a web service. It works similar to a cloud based data storage and this functionality is also integrated into our Webspace packages. To utilize this feature you will have to log into your cPanel and click on the ‘Web Disk’ button under the
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