How to Create or Transfer Domains at Contabo
Learn how to register or transfer a domain at Contabo with ease. This guide covers setup, DNS management, and tips for a seamless web presence.
How to Set Up a Self-Hosted Wiki: Complete Guide
Discover how to create and manage your own self-hosted wiki with this comprehensive guide. Learn about choosing the right software, configuring your server, customizing your wiki, and securing your private knowledge base for seamless collaboration and control
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IMAP vs POP3: Choosing the Right Email Protocol for Your Needs
IMAP and POP3 are crucial email protocols, each with unique use cases. In this article, explore the key differences and learn how to leverage these protocols to enhance your email management. Discover how Contabo’s offerings provide the flexibility and control you need to set up a tailored email server, whether for personal use or business growth.
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Celebrating 200,000 Customers on the Contabo Cloud!
Join us in celebrating a major milestone at Contabo! With over 200,000 customers, we’re rolling out special promotions on VPS, VDS, and more. Discover how our community-driven approach is powering projects like yours.
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Mastering File Permissions: Understanding Linux chmod
File permissions are the cornerstone of Linux system administration, serving as the gatekeepers to the operating system’s files and directories. They dictate what actions a user can perform, such as reading, writing, or executing files, ensuring the security and integrity of the system. Understanding how to manage these permissions effectively is essential for anyone tasked
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Data Center Cabinets: Arrived and Mounted
This behind-the-scenes post shows you how we set up data center cabinets and cooling cabinets at our Data Center.
Plesk training at Contabo
Many of you, our valued customers, already use the popular administration panel Plesk Obsidian, since it offers lots of possibilities to manage and administrate your server in an easy way. In cooperation with our partner Plesk, we also offer you the unique opportunity to try Plesk Obsidian one month for free – the offer is
Contabo customer survey 2019
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
New Operating System: Ubuntu 19.04
A short time ago, we have made the new Ubuntu 19.04 OS (replaces Ubuntu 18.10) available on our homepage – and we certainly do not want to withhold this information from you 🙂 You can combine Ubuntu 19.04 with the Software RAID 1, Webmin, LAMP and Webmin+LAMP. In case you already have your own Linux
Full Monitoring
The optional upgrade Full Monitoring from Contabo is an extensive monitoring tool for your VPS and Dedicated Servers. We are going to present the features of this tool in this tutorial. Why Full Monitoring? By the help of Full Monitoring, outages can be detected quickly. The key benefit of this tool is the immediate notification
We have doubled our data center connectivity to the AMS-IX
Back in February, we have informed you about our new uplink to the AMS-IX. Now in July, we are happy to let you know that we have doubled the connectivity. From now on, we are connected with two 10 Gbit/s uplinks to the AMS-IX! Located in Amsterdam, it is one of the biggest Internet exchange
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Comparison of administration panels: cPanel vs. Plesk vs. Webmin
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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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 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
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 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
Always be up to date with our server status notification!
Some of you have probably clicked on the link “Server Status” on our website contabo.com already and were forwarded to our status website. In the very rare case of irregular issues occurring in one of our data centers, we inform you about it on this website. Recently we have revised our status site and added
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