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WordPress mass update script 3.4.1

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Liz Quilty

This script will search /var/www (changeable in a variable) for any wordpress installs and make sure its upgraded to the latest version. It will run a backup to /root/wp_upgrade/ of all files and database before doing anything with the site … Continue reading →

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Setting up Domains Keys (DKIM) on Postfix

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Liz Quilty

This is a quick and fairly painless way of setting up DKIM, on a postfix server. DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is a method for associating a domain name to an email message, thereby allowing a person, role, or organization to … Continue reading →

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Mysql Master/Master Replication & File sync for quick easy scaling or load balance

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Liz Quilty

A lot of our customers often need a quick easy way to scale up without moving to a new host or changing IP, or even just want an overseas copy of their site, so this is a brief tutorial on … Continue reading →

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Fixing broken permissions or ownership

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Liz Quilty

People are not perfect, not even the staff here. Perfection is not required to be a sysadmin we found, just some good shell scripts to fix things when you break them accidentally. One of the more common accidents are chown … Continue reading →

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PCI compliance – a basic HOWTO

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Liz Quilty

A lot of people are wanting to be PCI compliant these days, and this is generally a good thing. PCI compliance is not just a server spec, but a list of procedures, policies, controls over access to data. Therefore the … Continue reading →

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HOWTO videos for Rimuhosting Control Panel on youtube

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Liz Quilty

Sometimes explaining how to do something in the control panel can be fairly involved, and often confusing for people new to VPS or Rimuhosting. We have a fairly involved control panel that can do a lot of tasks, and it … Continue reading →

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Setup mail hosting on Debian Squeeze and other distros using postfixadmin

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Juan Rossi

Postfix is our favorite mail server. We find it's easy to configure and performs really well. When asked at a recent conference talk, Eric Allman the creator of Sendmail, said he would use Postfix if starting today. Many people ask … Continue reading →

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Easy Peasy Linux Firewalling – iptables

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Liz Quilty

A lot of our customers have asked for firewalls, and since this is a common theme, i decided that I would help them out. Of course it can be a mission to learn how to make your own and what … Continue reading →

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rdiff-backup script using sshfs for larger backups

Posted on January 14, 2010 by Liz Quilty

We have had a few customers who have much more data to back up, and taking a copy of that every day uses a LOT of disk space and can be time consuming. The answer is rdiff-backup . It does … Continue reading →

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Quick and Easy Automatic Backup Script

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Liz Quilty

At Rimuhosting we do a weekly snapshot backup of your VPS. This means that if anything goes wrong you can revert to the previous image. However since its weekly, not daily, you may find you have lost the data between … Continue reading →

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