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Webspace, VPS and Dedicated Server explained: Differences and applications

February 22, 2019 / Niklas / Company News / 3 minutes of reading

Time and again we receive inquiries asking which product is best suited for your personal requirements. In the following we would like to give you an overview of our products and their applications: Webspace Packages: Let’s start with our Webspace Packages, which are ideal for hosting smaller websites, blogs and forums. The intuitive and simple […]

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Hostadvice – Great Uptime Award for Contabo

February 8, 2019 / Markus / Company News / 1 minute of reading

Today, we have some great news for you that reached us from an external portal: The hosting experts from HostAdvice.com have recently ran an uptime check for two months. We are happy about the very good result of 99.9% uptime and the respective “Great Uptime Award“, which we consequently received! Should you have questions about

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Installation of Softaculous in Plesk and cPanel

January 24, 2019 / Viktor / Tutorials / 3 minutes of reading

Softaculous offers a huge number of scripts which can be installed by the popular „Auto Installer“ under the Plesk and cPanel administration. For Plesk you can activate Softaculous only on a Linux operating system. The free version gives you access to more than 50 scripts whereas the fee-based, fully-licensed version offers around 450 scripts. An

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Contabo Christmas Contest 2018

December 6, 2018 / Markus / Company News / 3 minutes of reading

Black Friday and Cyber Monday is nice to have, but we have got something bigger and better for you! This year, we came up with the Contabo Christmas Contest for you, our valued customers! Share and Particpiate! Honestly, it is that simple! Visit our Facebook page and share our Christmas-Contest post (right at the top

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CHIP Hotline-Test 2019: “A+” grade for Contabo

November 13, 2018 / Markus / Company News / 2 minutes of reading

Once again, we have great news from inside Contabo: This year, too, the well-known German IT magazine CHIP and the research institution Statista have tested the hotlines of German providers during the past months. After more than 8.900 test calls the best hotlines for new customers were determined among 147 companies from 12 industries. We

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New Operating System available: Fedora 29

November 8, 2018 / Markus / Company News / 1 minute of reading

Some of you have probably yearned for it already 😀 now is the time: The brand new Fedora 29 is available at Contabo now for all of your virtual and dedicated servers! It replaces the previous version, Fedora 28. You can order it with the Software RAID 1 and Webmin and an installation via VNC

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Plesk 17.8: New features – try for free at Contabo

October 11, 2018 / Markus / Company News / 2 minutes of reading

The new Plesk Onyx 17.8 is available for some time now, and maybe you are using it already. If not, you might consider to order your next (virtual) server with Plesk Onyx. In case you are still unsure if Plesk is the right administration panel for your needs, we would like to introduce some of

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SRV Records – How do I use them correctly?

August 31, 2018 / Markus / Tutorials / 2 minutes of reading

Definition of an SRV record With a Service Resource Record (short: SRV record) you can make services, which are usually available via an IP:PORT combination, reachable using a DNS host name. Important to note regarding SRV record is the fact, that they only work if an application has been specifically programmed to make use of

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Full Monitoring

August 9, 2018 / Alois / Tutorials / 3 minutes of reading

The optional upgrade Full Monitoring from Contabo is an extensive monitoring tool for your VPS and Dedicated Servers. We are going to present the features of this tool in this tutorial. Why Full Monitoring? By the help of Full Monitoring, outages can be detected quickly. The key benefit of this tool is the immediate notification

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Establishing a connection to your server via SSH

June 11, 2018 / Julian / Tutorials / 3 minutes of reading

In this tutorial you will find a guide on how to establish a connection via SSH to your Linux server. Please note that you will have to replace the place holder <IP Address> in the complete tutorial with the IP address of your server. Linux In case you are using a Linux operating system on

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