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Debian 7.0 and Ubuntu 13.04 Install Images

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Abdallah Deeb

We’re happy to announce the availability of Debian 7.0 (release notes) and Ubuntu 13.04 (release notes) images for new VPS installations. Both releases are pretty stable and there is not much to report. It seems that the biggest news (for Ubuntu) … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal install images

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Juan Rossi

We are proud to announce the release of the new installer images for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal Server Edition. It is available as an reinstall option for existing servers, or in the new servers orders page The version is intended … 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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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin

Posted on May 10, 2012 by John Billings

We are delighted to offer the latest release of Ubuntu Server, codenamed Precise Pangolin. That is available as an reinstall option or for order on all our VPS and dedicated server ordering pages.

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Could not perform immediate configuration on already unpacked ‘util-linux’.Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Liz Quilty

Today we had a customer who had somehow broken his apt package manager doing an upgrade from the looks. I googled and found the same error in many places, most resorting to reinstalling or purging the package to clear it, … 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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Security at home – encrypted home directories

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Liz Quilty

This isn't directly server related at all, more for the home or office user who wants to make sure things are nice and secure. At the office we like to also make sure our desktops are fairly safe to connect … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu Upgrade to 10.04 on your VPS? Read this first!

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Liz Quilty

Update: Carl has posted some 10.04 upgrade instructions in our howtos section. As often happens, some things happen when you upgrade, and its not always desirable when its a production server. We try and catch these for you and post … 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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