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 our services and rent virtual servers from Contabo, we do not rest on our laurels. There’s still this one goal. We simply want to be the best. […]
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 IPv4 address. An example for an IPv4 address would be 79.143.183.251. An example for an IPv6 address would be 2a02:c200:0000:0010:0000:0000:1231:0001. IPv6 is entirely optional, meaning you can
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 not establish a IPv6 connection, please perform the following steps: Linux Connect to your server via SSH Execute the following command with root rights:enable_ipv6 Reboot your server
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.
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 »
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
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
Just right after the official completion of MICROSOFT’s new operating system for server applications – entitled Windows Server 2012 – our technicians have started with working on its evaluation. We have performed numerous functionality tests for our customers and in particular the integration of this new system into our “ASI” (Automatic System Installer) System. We
An era is just about to draw to a close. The GIGA Dedicated Server XL, which has been a successfull contributor to our server fleet for years, will vanish from our portfolio shortly. This XL rootserver will only remain available for ordering from our homepage for a short while. You have got just a few
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 »
Until now we have never presented a “number of the month” in our blog, but I think February is a good month to start with it. This “number of the month” gives us the chance to reveal some more details about our company and our products by using hard facts instead of just telling anything.