Flash movie: GIGA Customer Control Panel
You might have already recognized it: On our international website Giga-International.com we recently added a flash teaser presenting the powerful functions and the easy handling of our new Customer...
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Upgrading Debian 6.0 to 7.0 With the release of Debian 7.0 there are two ways that you can have this distribution installed on your VPS or Dedicated servers. One is, clean installation, this could be...
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Hands on SPDY
What is SPDY? You can call it as some HTTP(S) Upgrade. With SPDY the web is becoming faster and even more secure. SPDY works completely encrypted with SSL. What is the goal of SPDY? Simple as that: For...
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Rewrite rules with htaccess
One recurring question affects mostly our webspace packages, but should be interesting for many others as well: How can I move the content of my main domain to a sub-folder without affecting its...
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System Rescue CD: First Steps
Many have already heard about it or even used it once in a while, but most have probably not been introduced to it yet: Our rescue system! While hopefully not being needed often, it provides many...
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Process Controlling With Supervisor
If you run your own virtual or dedicated server, chances are that you want to run a specific program or a number of programs that make up the service you want to use or offer. If the program you want...
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Adding IPv6 connectivity to your server
With the recent deployment of IPv6 in our data centre network, newly installed servers should be configured with an IPv6 address out of the box. For existing installations that you do not want to...
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LAMP made easy
We would like to make you aware of a novelty in our ASI. Some of you may have noticed already that we had implemented some time ago, an additional LINUX option called LAMP This option is available from...
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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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Linux (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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Mounting of additional hard disks in Linux
In this tutorial, we are going to mount an additional hard disk in Linux. At first, we list all the disks recognized by our system using the fdisk command: fdisk -l In our example, two hard drives are...
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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 addresses originating from these...
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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...
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What to do if your server is not reachable anymore
If your server should run but it is not reachable, there sometimes might be a routing problem between your internet provider and Contabo the reason and you should follow these instructions: To make...
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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, I will show you some of the most...
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How to check the health of your hard drive with smartmontools (in Linux)
A) Installation To install smartmontools please type the following: -Debian and Ubuntu- apt-get install smartmontools -CentOS- yum install smartmontools The above commands will install smartmontools on...
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How 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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How to change the display language on Windows Server 2008 R2
Servers you order at Contabo will be installed in English language by default. If you want to change the display language the following guide will help you to perform this on your Windows Server 2008...
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How to change the display language on Windows Server 2012 R2
Servers you order at Contabo will be installed in English language by default. If you want to change the display language the following guide will help you to perform this on your Windows Server 2012...
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