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Virtual Private Servers now almost for free!
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...
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cPanel/WHM: Best practices
Our Dedicated Servers and VPS's with cPanel are very popular among our customers. The easy to use administration panel renders web hosting possible comfortably even for inexperienced Linux...
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Summer special: 0 € setup fee for our VPS!
Summer has just begun and Contabo celebrates the warmest time of the year with hot price reductions. As of now all our virtual private servers (Contabo VPS) are provided without setup fee! Even if you...
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Freshly arrived: Plesk 12 available at Contabo!
A few days ago Parallels, the manufacturer of the popular admin panel Plesk, released his latest version Plesk 12 - and we are proud to let you know that Plesk 12 is available on Contabo.com with...
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Exclusive Insight: Contabo data center in Nuremberg!
In addition to various other (large) projects, whose positive results will soon be visible on our website, the commissioning and further maintenance of our second data center in Nuremberg was of course...
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New VPS offers: Higher performance, SSD boost!
After months of development, the time has come: Today, our entire lineup of VPS offers has been updated. Each Contabo VPS now provides much more performance - at the same price as before! What does...
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More than 10.000 customers rely on Contabo
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...
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Contabo christmas chocolates
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...
View ArticleLinux (Debian/Ubuntu): Backup
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...
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Mounting of additional hard drives in Windows
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....
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Configuring additional IP addresses
Upon ordering a Dedicated Server or VPS you will receive one IPv4 address and one /112 IPv6 subnet (65,535 addresses in total). As an example, this could be the IPv4 address 192.51.100.10 and the IPv6...
View ArticleHow to use VNC to connect to your VPS
This is a short instruction on how to login to your VPS via VNC: We recommend to use UltraVNC to connect to the server. Here is a download link for this tool:...
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New VPS series available: 100% SSD!
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 –...
View ArticleServer & VPS: Now one monthly fee for free!
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...
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Snapshot feature for the new VPS SSD
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...
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Promotion: Setup fees scratched for all of our VPS, discount available!
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...
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Ubuntu 16.04 available now!
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,...
View ArticleHow can I prevent my e-mails getting marked as spam?
You have your own e-mail server, but your e-mails are landing in the spam folder or do not even arrive? This can have several reasons. This tutorial will show you the most important tricks and often...
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Changing the partition layout of your VPS after installation
In case you want to add additional partitions to your system you will have to reorganize your existing partition layout. This tutorial shows how to easily change your partition layout on your VPS....
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DomainKeys and DKIM in Plesk and cPanel
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...
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