A few days ago Katharina gave you a detailed overview about the history of Contabo in her blog post “Contabo through the ages! The story so far…”. Based on the mentioned most important milestones of the past 10 years we are going to publish now and within the next few days some pictures, photos and […]
We received more than 100 poems. It was really hard work to read through every poem. But now our jury finally made its decision and we can proudly present the winners of our poetry slam. But first of all, it has to be mentioned, that we received poems in German as well in English language.
Contabo celebrates its 10th birthday. We would like to take this opportunity to give you a short look back on the history of our hosting company. Over the last years a lot has changed at Contabo, formerly Giga-International. However, our main concern always has remained the same: Our corporate goals: Right from the beginning we
For hosting in a datacenter – or expressed in a more fashionable way – storing data in ‘the cloud’, there is one crucial factor: A top quality, fast and secure Internet connection of the servers within the datacenter. Only this makes it possible to retrieve and make use of the data, stored and processed in
Price reduction: Internet bandwidth, now almost for free! Read More »
Shortly after our most recent price reduction and directly following the doubling of our VPS performance features we are even outdoing ourselves once more: From now on, we do offer our top ranking virtual private server, the VPS XL, with six CPU cores instead of four, each at a frequency of 3.2 Ghz. If it
Short after our company name change we reduced the prices of our dedicated and virtual servers and some of our upgrades. Since last week our high-end server “Dedicated Server X”, which includes a powerful Intel Core i7 3930K processor, 64 GB DDR3-RAM and 256 GB SSD with 6 Gbit/s + 3 TB HDD, can already
A few days ago, we drastically reduced the prices of our dedicated servers and virtual servers to provide even more powerful hosting solutions at an unbeatable price. The server upgrades are next in line. During the order process of a new server, our customers can upgrade the basic configuration of the server according to their
The journey has just begun! This is probably the most appropriate description in one sentence for our ambitious plans for the year 2013. A few weeks after changing our company name, we are innovating the market for dedicated and virtual servers. Contabo reduces the prices of all dedicated and virtual servers (VPS) and doubles the
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Effective of today we change the official name for our virtual servers. Our offered hosting solution V-Server is called VPS from now on. VPS is the shortcut for Virtual Private Server. After long consideration we have decided on a name change, because our experiences have shown that our customers prefer the more common name VPS,
On some day during the last week a very good customer who has been renting a Dedicated Server in our datacenter wrote us that he did not necessarily need the server at this time anymore, because the gameserver project he wanted to develop failed. No more need for a dedicated server you might think at
This winter we are going to expand our upstreams with an additional, high-quality carrier. In addition to the already existing, extremely reliable connections via M-Net and Telia Sonera (10 Gbit/s each) there will be yet a third 10 Gbit/s connection in our datacenter available from February 2012 on. With it we’re investing in a new
As of today, Giga-International.com is presenting their official website on FACEBOOK. Like in our company blog, we would like to use this platform to inform all interested folks specifically about our products, new developments, some interesting details about our day-to-day business and, not to forget, about ourselves. In addition, you can post your comments regarding
Outside, red hot and tropical weather conditions, but the servers located at Giga-Hosting’s datacenter, always keep a ‘cool processor’. Thanks to 7 climate cabinets in our datacenter and to 2 cooling units on the roof top, a consistent decent temperature is kept, to care for the servers on our server floor. In April 2011, the
Number of the month: 2 + 7 = Decent Temperature! Read More »
The cluster system for your individual requirements. High performance, high stability and low price. Regardless which hardware component might fail or how the number of web site visitors might increase – your web presence will remain 24/7 online. The Giga Linux Cluster is built not only to prevent service outages, but also to provide the
Almost exactly 2 years ago we established a new datacenter with enough room for 4000 servers in Munich. This has been done in order to face the growing demand in colocation and dedicated servers and to reach an even higher quality level. The same building also contains our office rooms which enables us to deliver