We are happy to offer you further upgrades for our operating systems: CentOS 7.2 is available now, replacing the version 7.1! You may combine it with Software RAID 1, Webmin, LAMP, Webmin+LAMP, Plesk and cPanel. Plus, the installation via VNC is possible! Also, Proxmox is available now in version 4.0, replacing 3.2. It is not […]
Recently, two operating systems received an upgrade: Fedora is now available in version 24, replacing version 23. Also, CentOS 6.6 upgraded to 6.8. The latest versions are available at Contabo now! Fedora 24 can be combined with Software RAID 1 and Webmin, the installation via VNC is possible! You may combine CentOS 6.8 optionally with
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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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As of now we offer you the latest Linux distribution Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) as a free operating system for all of our VPS and dedicated servers. You may combine it with the Software RAID 1, Webmin, LAMP as well as Webmin + LAMP. Since PLESK does not yet offer a version which is
Although the first day of spring is not even close yet, we still hope you’ll get some spring fever with our latest promotion! As of now, we have erased the setup fee for all of our VPS! Whether you opt for a VPS with lots of disk space (HDD+SSD boost) or a VPS with 100%
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As a feature, the new VPS SSD models from Contabo provide a snapshot function. Using the menu item „VPS control“ in the customer control panel at my.contabo.com, you can perform a snapshot of the current status of your VPS SSD at any time. This snapshot can be restored again at a later time. Therefore, snapshots
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
For more than a year, our VPS feature SSD-Boost by default and thus offer you the best from two worlds: A lot of storage space and an incredibly fast read-write rate of your data. No surprise here – all host systems from our existing VPS-fleet include both standard HDDs and SSDs, which provide additional cache
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 you the rights of a power user, so you don’t have to write the command sudo at the beginning of every command line. To install smartmontools please
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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
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 root access is required. It does not matter whether it is a Dedicated Server or VPS. Important: The following commands were tested with Ubuntu 14.04 (64 Bit).
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 chocolates for us and to our designer who excelled himself once again by creating such a nice Contabo Box for our candies. Have a Merry Christmas and
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 and that the customer response and demand on our products increases day by day. Thus, our success story continues on and we can create another new milestone