Contabo wins German Data Center Award 2017
Contabo wins German Data Center Award 2017!
During a ceremony on the evening of the 25th of April 2017, the winners of the “Deutscher Rechenzentrumspreis 2017” (German Data Center Award 2017) were honored. Prior to the award presentation ceremony, an independent expert panel selected the award winners among 65 data center projects which had been handed in by data center operators from all over Germany. The jury focused especially on the cutting-edge and visionary character of the data center projects as well as the achievable (energy-)efficiency in the data center services.
Contabo has won the first place in category 6 – “Increase in energy efficiency through reconstruction in an existing data center” – with its data center in Nuremberg and consequently received the German Data Center Award 2017.
This award is a huge acknowledgement of the efforts we have carried out in the past years with the ultimate goal to make the operation of the Contabo data centers as energy efficient and stable as possible – and at the same time even more attractive for our customers. In the course of the energetic optimization of the prize-winning data center in Nuremberg we have, for instance, replaced many installations of the electric and air conditioning supply with new and high-efficient machines. By doing so, we have replaced dozens of ventilators and all of our UPS and air conditioning systems. Additionally, we have built a new room for a thermal separation of our UPS batteries. On the basis of extensive planning and project scheduling as well as precautionary activities, all these measures were implemented without any interruption of the operation of our customer servers. For the Contabo customers, for whom we have thousands of servers online in our data center, all these actions were performed noiseless.
As a result, the PUE value (PUE = “Power Usage Effectiveness”) of the data center in Nuremberg could be reduced from 2.0 to almost 1.2 within one year. With full use of the data center capacity, the electricity costs of all data center services will be reduced by more than 1 million Euros every year. This is a huge increase in the efficiency of our services, which Contabo passes on to its customers 1:1 – in the form of an excellent price-performance-ratio of all offered hosting products.
Receiving the German Data Center Award is a big honor for us; in addition, it encourages us to continue our path of permanently searching for and implementing technological improvements for our products and data centers. For the future, our goal is to continue to offer our customers the same as today: Premium products and an excellent customer service combined with an unbeatable price-performance-ratio.
Data center uplinks: Now 100 Gbit/s!
We have enhanced our data center connectivity with two additional high-quality uplinks. The two carriers Level 3 and Telia have been connected with additional 2 x 10 Gbit/s to our backbone.
When it comes to the internet connection of our data centers, we don't accept compromises. Instead, we continue to focus on highest quality and best availability possible for our customers. With Telia Carrier and Level 3 we choose number 1 and number 2 of the world's biggest internet carriers for upgrading our upstreams — there is no other carrier who operates such huge networks worldwide.
Our customers now receive an even better redundancy in case of a malfunction of any data center uplink. Besides, the additional upstreams increase the available bandwidth and provide you, our customers, with an even better global routing and with a better price of traffic.
The Contabo data centers now are connected to the internet with 100 Gbit/s:
- Telia Carrier: 30 Gbit/s
- Level 3: 30 Gbit/s
- DE-CIX: 20 Gbit/s
- Versatel: 10 Gbit/s
- M-Net: 10 Gbit/s
Plesk Onyx now one month for free!
In cooperation with our partner Plesk, we are now offering you the popular administration panel Plesk Onyx one month for free. This offer is available for all our VPS — exclusively at Contabo — and applies for new orders.
You are free to choose which one of the three Plesk Onyx editions you would like to try with one of our VPS:
- Plesk Onyx Web Admin Edition (Price after the free month: 2.99 € / month)
- Plesk Onyx Web Pro Edition: (Price after the free month: 4.99 € / month)
- Plesk Onyx Web Host Edition: (Price after the free month: 8.99 € / month)
If you are convinced of Plesk, you do not have to do anything: After the free month, the license renews automatically, if you haven't cancelled the Plesk license with us before; it will then be charged with the regular monthly price, which you can find in the overview above.
Being a Gold-Partner of Plesk we have worked hard to present you with this exceptional offer, valid only on Contabo.com. In addition to that, we are able to offer you an excellent support for Plesk Onyx.
Please note that this offer is valid for a limited period of time only. So what are you waiting for? Simply opt for the edition which suits your requirements and order it in combination with one of our VPS.
