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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This behind-the-scenes post shows you how we set up data center cabinets and cooling cabinets at our Data Center.
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
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
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
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
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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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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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
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