Typically, we provide all of our customers with root or administrator access to their servers in order to enable you to configure your servers according to your own needs and requirements. Nonetheless, we understand ourselves as a “full service agency” at times for our customers, so we provide any support required upon request. Usually this […]
The new Plesk Obsidian is available for quite a while now. Time for us to introduce it and, as the title of the posting suggests, make you aware of our exclusive promotion with Plesk: You can try Plesk Obsidian one month for free in combination with every VPS and dedicated server at Contabo! Just select
Just released last week, available at Contabo as of today: Debian 10, codename Buster. It is available for all our VPS and dedicated server – just select it during the order process. If you are an existing customer and would like to upgrade to Debian 10, you can do so via our customer control panel.
While it is still pretty hot outside in Germany (as we let you know in our blog post last week) we joined forces with our partner Plesk and created a special summer promotion for you! As you surely know, you can try Plesk one month for free. However, this promotion was limited to our VPS
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The migration of a website is always a challenging task for the webmaster. Beside a loss of reputation and ranking on search engines, dead links or famous 404-errors, there are some other risks during such a migration. But often it is more dangerous to leave the website on an old server, since old software can
Easter is just around the corner and we from Contabo have a very special offer for you! 😀 As of today, you will receive a 500 GB SSD free of charge when ordering a dedicated server Dual Xeon, 10-Core or Dual 10-Core! The offer is available for a short period of time only and while
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Softaculous offers a huge number of scripts which can be installed by the popular „Auto Installer“ under the Plesk and cPanel administration. For Plesk you can activate Softaculous only on a Linux operating system. The free version gives you access to more than 50 scripts whereas the fee-based, fully-licensed version offers around 450 scripts. An
Once again, we have great news from inside Contabo: This year, too, the well-known German IT magazine CHIP and the research institution Statista have tested the hotlines of German providers during the past months. After more than 8.900 test calls the best hotlines for new customers were determined among 147 companies from 12 industries. We
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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At the end of April, we have asked you – our existing customers – to answer a few questions about us and our services in a survey within your customer control panel. First of all, we would like to take the chance and thank all of you for the huge participation: Even though the survey
Great news: The experts at top10-websitehosting have recently published a review about us. They have thoroughly tested our services and we have had the chance to do a Q&A with them. The authors were especially impressed by our approach to put a special focus on you, our valued customers and to offer you customized solutions
A brief update regarding our Linux OS: As of today, we offer you the brand new Fedora 27 for your VPS and Dedicated Servers, it replaces the previous version 26. It can be combined with the Software RAID 1 and Webmin and an installation via VNC is possible as well. If you are currently using
We are often asked which panel we would recommend. Since there is a variety of different panels with different functions and focus, we cannot easily answer this question. Currently we offer cPanel, Plesk, LAMP und Webmin, which we will introduce here. cPanel/WHM cPanel is a webhosting panel which allows to administrate a great number of
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This is a follow-up to the tutorial How to install an e-mail server in Windows, directed to those who already have an hMailserver and want to increase the security. Spam protection To activate the spam protection, please go to Settings >> Anti-spam in the hMailserver Administrator. In the tab “General” you can leave the settings
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You want to send and receive e-mails with your Windows server and connect to it by using your clients on PC, smartphone or tablet? In this tutorial we will explain how you can setup your own e-mail server on a Windows system with a static public IP. This tutorial will work for our VPS as
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