Tutorials Overview
How to Connect to Your Server Using VNC
In this guide I will show you how to connect to your VPS (or any server) using VNC. What is VNC and How Does It Work? VNC or…
NVMe vs SSD vs HDD Servers: Understand the Difference and Choose the Right Storage for You
Not all drives are made equal. There is a huge difference in price and performance between NVMe, SSD and HDD storage. In this article, we’ll guide you through…
Plesk Backup Manager
Regularly creating backups of your data is crucial in order to avoid a surprise loss of data. With the Plesk Backup Manager you can set up and manage…
High Performance Veeam Backup Target: How to configure your environment
Taking regular backups of your important data is crucial to avoid a surprisingly and costly loss of data. We show you step-by-step how to easily configure your backup…
Scheduled backups in cPanel and Plesk
Creating backups is a very important task for every server administrator. A loss of data often occurs suddenly without a warning. It is possible to create backups manually,…
Webspace: How to run Auto-SSL manually
A free SSL certificate for your domain can be installed at any time within cPanel. Your website will receive automatically a free SSL certificate after 12-24 hours, however…
LEMP: Debian, NGINX + Certbot, MariaDB, PHP
This tutorial shows you how to prepare your Debian VPS for hosting your website.We are not going to perform any fine-tuning or optimization on the default configuration files.…
Webspace: Creating a Blog in Minutes
This tutorial will show you how to create a blog and publish it world wide in just a couple of minutes. The requirement for the Softaculous automatic WordPress…
Installation of a graphical user interface for Linux
All Linux-Server operating systems are installed by default without a graphical user interface (GUI). A GUI on a dedicated server can only be accessed if a KVM is…
Debian & Ubuntu Upgrade
At Contabo, we always offer you the latest version of many popular Linux operating systems. This tutorial shows you how to upgrade from an old version to the…
Migration using Plesk
The migration of a website is always a challenging task for the webmaster. Beside a loss of reputation and ranking on search engines, dead links or famous 404-errors,…
Installation of Softaculous in Plesk and cPanel
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…
SRV Records – How do I use them correctly?
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…
Full Monitoring
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…
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 do I connect to my Windows server via RDP?
This tutorial will show you how to connect to your Windows VPS or dedicated server at Contabo via RDP from different operating systems. The following scenarios will be…
Establishing a connection to your server via SSH
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…
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…
How to manage your RAID controller in Linux
Please note: This tutorial focusses on Linux OS. Should you be a Windows user instead, please confer our respective tutorial on how to manage your RAID controller in…
Basic information about our Webspace
Today we would like to give you some basic usage hints about our webspace packages. First of all, our webspace offers are based on cPanel which is well…