How to check the health of your hard drive with smartmontools (in Linux)
A) Installation 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…
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Mounting of additional hard disks in Linux
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…
Mounting of additional hard drives in Windows
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…
Linux (Debian/Ubuntu): Backup
In this post I want to show you how to create a basic full backup of your file system and how to restore it. A Linux system with…
Contabo christmas chocolates
Christmas is almost here and we just got some christmas chocolates "made by Contabo": Our thanks go to the famous Cafe Luitpold in Munich who created these nice…
More than 10.000 customers rely on Contabo
We have recently cracked the mark of 10.000 customers. It makes us proud that so many customers from all over the world rely on hosting services of Contabo…
New VPS offers: Higher performance, SSD boost!
After months of development, the time has come: Today, our entire lineup of VPS offers has been updated. Each Contabo VPS now provides much more performance – at…
Exclusive Insight: Contabo data center in Nuremberg!
In addition to various other (large) projects, whose positive results will soon be visible on our website, the commissioning and further maintenance of our second data center in…
Freshly arrived: Plesk 12 available at Contabo!
A few days ago Parallels, the manufacturer of the popular admin panel Plesk, released his latest version Plesk 12 – and we are proud to let you know…
Price reductions for VPS
After having reduced our prices for dedicated servers, our VPS are next in line: The one-time setup fees have been reduced by up to 10 EUR!! Depending on…
cPanel/WHM: Best practices
Our Dedicated Servers and VPS's with cPanel are very popular among our customers. The easy to use administration panel renders web hosting comfortably even for inexperienced Linux administrators.…
Virtual Private Servers now almost for free!
Once again our technicians have been working hard to improve the price-performance ratio of our popular virtual private servers (VPS). Although thousands of customers worldwide already trust in…
ASI News
Attention Windows Server users: We released a new installation method for Windows Server operating systems today. It is already available for all VPS and Dedicated Server customers with…
IPv6 now available for all our customers
We are happy to announce the introduction of IPv6 in our network. IPv6 is the successor to IPv4. Normally, when talking about an ip address, one means an…
Adding IPv6 connectivity to your server
On the servers provided by Contabo an IPv6 address is already preconfigured. However on some servers the IPv6 connectivity still has to be activated. If your server can…