Contabo Support & Culture - The technical failure itself is secondary to the organizational failure handling it. Contabo’s support culture demonstrates a fundamental misalignment of incentives.

Optimizing for Metrics Over Solutions: The primary objective of the support tier appears to be closing tickets as quickly as possible, using any available justification, rather than genuinely resolving the customer’s problem.

Blame Shifting: There is a clear tendency to attribute faults to the customer or incorrect settings rather than investigating potential anomalies in the underlying virtualization or infrastructure layer.

Absence of Root Cause Analysis: Because the support team applied a static configuration workaround and immediately closed the ticket, the actual root cause of the disappearing DHCP configuration was never identified.

Perpetual Vulnerability: When root causes are ignored in favor of quick patches, the underlying infrastructure bugs remain. This guarantees that the exact same issue will occur again, leading to an endless cycle of new tickets.

#Contabo #VPS #hosting #support #networking #DHCP

Got this email from #Contabo even before #Hetzner announced their price increases too…

Argh

#VPS #fuckAI

Gibt es irgendwo eine feine Anleitung zu Contabo Webmin und Integration von Sieve Filtern ? Ich wechsle von Hosteurope zu Contabo ... Was vorher Outofthebox (ich kann mich nicht erinnern das konfiguriert zu haben) funktioniert hat, fordert mich nun ordentlich heraus.

#contabo #sieve

Hat jemand Erfahrung mit Entsperrung von blockierten Mailservern durch #proofpoint ?

mx0b-001b2d05.pphosted.com[205.220.172.48] refused to talk to me: 554 Blocked - see https://ipcheck.proofpoint.com/?ip=XX.XXX.XXX.XX

Ich bin dabei meinen Server von #hosteurope nach #contabo umzuziehen.