contabo gmbh was established in the spring of 2003 in munich, the capital city of bavaria, southern germany. giga-international – as it was know at that time – has steadily grown from just a single server in a data center to more than 335,000 servers today. let's take a closer look at how this happened.in 2009, we established a new state-of-art data center in munich with space for more than 4,000 physical servers. our offices were also located on site in order to ensure quick reaction time from our support team 365 days a year (including holidays and weekends).at the beginning of 2013, we changed our company name from the aforementioned "giga-international" to "contabo". at that point, we also started to go beyond the traditional german market and offer our hosting services internationally.in order to meet the increasing demand for our vps and dedicated servers