Welcome to our tutorial about installing Hyper-V on your Dedicated Server with Windows Server 2016. Step 1 Installing Hyper-V After receiving the login information to your dedicated server you might want to find out how Hyper-V can be installed. Hyper-V is an additional Server-Role for Windows which can be added within the Server manager. On
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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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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
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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The following tutorial will show you how you can check and administrate the Windows updates for your Windows Server 2012 system: 1. Please connect to your server using RDP. Please open the control panel of the server and select the option ‘System and Security’: 2. You will be forwarded to the following site: Please open
The following tutorial will show you how you can check and administrate the Windows updates for your Windows Server 2008 system: 1. Please connect to your server using RDP and open the control panel, where you need to choose the section „System and Security“ 2. You will be forwarded to the following site, where you
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
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
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
We would like to make you aware of a novelty in our ASI. Some of you may have noticed already that we had implemented an additional LINUX option called LAMP some time ago. This option is available from our website when ordering a VPS or dedicated server, that runs under either LINUX operating system CentOS,