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  • Twitter competition: Win $100 worth of RimuHosting hosting credits

    For a bit of fun RimuHosting is giving away a $100 VPS hosting credit.  For example, that is 5 months’ worth of MiroVPS1 hosting  for your  own website! To enter just re-tweet this message: RT: @rimuhosting is giving away $100 worth of VPS hosting credits. Visit http://tinyurl.com/twittercredits for more info! Click for an easy retweet…

  • RimuHosting takes over the operation of HostingDirect’s VPSs

    Today RimuHosting has entered into an agreement to take over the operation of HostingDirect’s VPSs and their billing. Ben Simpson of Hosting Direct emailed some of his VPS customers today saying: Morgan from Hosting Direct will be leaving the team on the 12th of November 2009, he was the one who created the VPS infrastructure…

  • Postfixadmin – debian – mysql and errors

    A lot of our users use postfixadmin, it means email users are in the database, its easy to use, easy to admin. However the setup can be a little tricky for those not used to it. If you want to have a go doing it yourself, we have a great tutorial here http://rimuhosting.com/knowledgebase/linux/mail/postfixadmin Today however…

  • Rimuhosting Summer Soccer 2009

    Every year the staff at rimuhosting.com head offices are made to do this thing called exercise. It apparently keeps us fit and healthy and makes our brain work or some such. Either way, its a legitimate way to beat the crap out of our workmates and other innocent gamers using a ball as our weapon,…

  • Evading Webapp Vulnerability Scans

    Most attackers aren’t after your digital property or information stored on your server.  They’re mostly after your server for its resources to send spam, host phishing sites or launch attacks against other servers.  So unless you’re running a high profile site or have managed to anger a malcontent, your server likely isn’t going to be…

  • Upgrading to Karmic Koala ? VPS broken? Heres the fix!

    If you upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10, and rebooted, and it hasn’t come back up, here’s what to do The first thing you try is the console  https://rimuhosting.com/cp/vps/console.jsp . Add your key or setup a password and then ssh into the host it gives you to see if you actually have this problem. If you can…

  • Postfix problems that keep popping up

    We have had several customers with postfix problems and they seem to be all of a similar nature, so i thought i would blog a couple. The most common one is trying to use both aliases and virtualhosts for a domain. Especially with Virtualmin which tries to do both. The main symptoms are something in…

  • Using libcloud with RimuHosting

    Libcloud.org has merged our RimuHosting driver into their Python library.  All of our api functionality isn’t included in that driver, but there are a number of handy things that you can do via just a smattering of python code.  I’m going to write a few articles on this topic to demonstrate some of the cool…

  • External MX Records

    I see this particular problem about once or twice a day it seems and probably have for as long as I’ve worked at Rimu. Sometimes customers opt to have their email handled via a 3rd party mail service (google apps, for example).  If the hostname of your server is example.com and you’re trying to send…

  • WordPress Upgrade Script 2.8.5

    Heres a little Shell Script I wrote which, if run, will check your entire server for insecure versions of wordpress.  If it finds any, it will give you the option to upgrade. If you say yes it will backup the existing sites file and database in /root/wp_upgrade and upgrade it. Please Note: This has not…

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