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 in this tutorial. Why Full...
View ArticleSRV 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 DNS host name. Important...
View ArticleInstallation 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 only on a Linux...
View ArticleMigration 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, there are some other risks during...
View ArticleDebian & 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 latest Debian (stable) or Ubuntu LTS....
View ArticleInstallation 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 connected.This tutorial will guide...
View ArticleWebspace: 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 is a Webspace package L or...
View ArticleLEMP: 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. So neither NGINX, MySQL...
View ArticleWebspace: 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 requesting the certificate...
View ArticleScheduled 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, but we would recommend to...
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