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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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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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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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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DomainKeys and DKIM can help you to increase the reputation of your e-mail server and preventing others to manipulate or fake your e-mails. In this tutorial, we want to show you how you can activate this feature in cPanel and Plesk. Firstly, we have to clarify that Plesk allows you to activate DomainKeys in the
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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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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We have reduced the price for one of our most popular server upgrades, the 4 x 4 TB HDD RAID 10 bundle! Instead of 79.99 Euro per month, it is now available at a stunning 59.99 Euro per month! Important for you to know: It pays to be quick as this special price is available
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As of now, we refund up to one monthly fee for every order of our VPS of the series “HDD + SSD boost” and many of our dedicated servers. It is up to you how big the refund is that you will receive from us: The longer the chosen minimum contract length of your ordered
WinSCP is a very useful tool for transferring data to a server. WinSCP is a graphical open source SFTP and FTP client for Windows which supports the old SCP protocol. The client offers a protected data and file transfer between different computers and allows the use of protected “tunnels”. WinSCP can be downloaded from the
The file system check is is a practical tool if an error occurs in your file system and your server is not booting any more. With this tool you can analyse and repair such errors in your file system. We recommend to backup all your data before you start with this operation, because there could
Time and again you, our valued customers, contact us with questions regarding the administration of your server or system. Often, your inquiries cannot be answered quickly as either a thorough answer is required, including several process steps, or a detailed preparation is necessary on our part. Now we have collected all the interesting questions that
Interactive Guide In case you’re experiencing issues connecting to your server, our guide will walk you through common issues and how to resolve them: If the guide couldn’t help you or if you have been redirected here, please continue with creating a report for our customer support. Diagnostics and log files If your server should
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In this tutorial, we are going to mount an additional hard disk in Linux. If you’re not sure about your admin rights, always enter the command sudo -i at the beginning of every session: sudo -i This command will grant you the rights of a power user, so you don’t have to write the command
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