How to Reset Your Server Password with Contabo (Linux & Windows)
Have you ever found yourself locked out of your own server because you forgot the password? Or maybe you need to update your credentials for security reasons after…
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How to Add and Configure Additional IPs with Contabo
Learn how to easily add and configure additional IP addresses with Contabo to enhance security, performance, and server management efficiently.
Windows Server 2025: Key Features, Upgrades, and What to Expect
Windows Server 2025 is now available on Contabo VPS and VDS! Choose the latest server OS with enhanced security, performance, and cloud-init support for easy setup. Whether upgrading…
Configuring Additional IP Addresses
The following guide will give you an overview on how to configure additional IPv4 addresses on the most popular operating systems. We designed this article to be helpful…
Mounting local HDDs via RDP
With RDP it is not only possible to connect to a Windows server. You can also mount local HDDs on the remote Windows server in order to directly…
How to manage your RAID controller in Windows
Not long ago, we have shown you in a different tutorial how to manage your raidcontroller in Linux. Below you can find the respective guideline for Windows. Monitoring…
E-mail server in Windows Server, part 2: Security
This is a follow-up to the tutorial How to install an e-mail server in Windows, directed to those who already have an hMailserver and want to increase the…
How to install an e-mail server in Windows Server
You want to send and receive e-mails with your Windows server and connect to it by using your clients on PC, smartphone or tablet? In this tutorial we…
Installing Windows Hyper-V 2016 on a dedicated server
Welcome to our tutorial about installing Hyper-V on your Dedicated Server with Windows Server 2016. Step 1 Installing Hyper-V After receiving the login information to your dedicated server…
Being spoilt for choice – Windows or Linux?
The operating system is the centrepiece of a server. You can imagine how important it is to choose a fitting operating system. For servers, two operating systems have…
Available now: Windows Server 2016
Not long ago, Microsoft officially launched its latest operating system for server systems, Windows Server 2016. We immediately went to work and performed numerous functionality tests and thus…
Edit Windows Updates in Windows 2012
The following tutorial will show you how you can check and administrate the Windows updates for your Windows Server 2012 system: 1. Please connect to your server using…
Edit Windows Updates in Windows 2008
The following tutorial will show you how you can check and administrate the Windows updates for your Windows Server 2008 system: 1. Please connect to your server using…
How to use the Contabo Backup-Space
Ordering our FTP Backup-Space is always a good choice for saving important data on an external storage. Using that backup space can be done in many different ways,…
Creating static routes
All traffic in our network has to pass through our core-routers, additionally switch ports are configured in such a way that they only accept ethernet frames with mac…