Tag Archives: centos

Centos brcm-iscsi.log

Posted on February 1, 2012 by john

We have noticed a log related to iscsi daemons filling up disk space on a few of our Centos 5 VPSs lately. There have been a few reports of this in other places: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/archive/index.php/t-1046154.html It seems after you do a … Continue reading →

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Centos 6 released for VPS usage @ Rimuhosting

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Liz Quilty

We now have Centos 6 available for our new and existing customers to install if needed. There appear to be no major differences other than newer versions of software, and no problems installing it or gotchas. You can read the … Continue reading →

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Package management using apt-get

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Glenn Enright

Our support team receives a few queries each day about managing packages under Linux. All our installs have the APT toolset installed. We have a guide on some of the basic uses listed on our HowTo page. There are a … Continue reading →

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mod_flvx – flv movies working with apache/apache2

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Liz Quilty

Want to do some streaming of flv on your site? heres how! cd /usr/local/src wget http://people.apache.org/~pquerna/modules/mod_flvx.c apxs -i -a -c mod_flvx.c if apxs does not exist, then apxs2 should. If neither do then install the apache dev packages Debian based … Continue reading →

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Setting up Monit + with tomcat

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Liz Quilty

We get asked a lot by customers to install and setup monit. Its not an overly hard task, in fact its pretty darned easy. Monit is brilliant for monitoring and restarting services when they are down, it can alert you … Continue reading →

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Its the small things that help

Posted on April 27, 2010 by Liz Quilty

We have some users who own VPS who dont want to fork out for automated systems like Plesk or Virtualmin, but dont really want to deal with adding domains and email addresses all the time (and sometimes get lost) I … 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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PHP 5.2 on Centos upgrade

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Liz Quilty

Many of our customers request upgrading php to the latest stable version. Unfortunately CentOS does not have anything beyond 5.1.* in the official repository. We used to setup the remi repository as per http://rimuhosting.com/howto/php.jsp However, Remi moved on to the … Continue reading →

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Quick and easy iptables blocking and firewalling basics

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Liz Quilty

A customer emailed in today had noticed somebody trying to hack or crash his VPS. He tracked it down to one particular IP address but didnt know how to block him. There are several things you can do to block … Continue reading →

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