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Get started with Moodle
At Rimuhosting, we support a wide range of Moodle deployments — from simple academic setups to complex, high-availability platforms. This guide walks you through a clean and secure installation of Moodle 4.5 LTS, the latest long-term support release. Whether you’re launching a development instance, staging site, or preparing for full production, this setup gives you…
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What can you do when AI Bots steal your content and hammer your websites?
We’ve noticed a significant increase in bad bots crawling our servers, causing high load and ignoring robots.txt directives. Many of these are AI bots, along with some overly aggressive search engine crawlers. This might not be an issue for larger servers, but for smaller setups, it can easily cripple a website. A few things we’ve…
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Experiments with AI: get started with LLMs using Ollama
This post will explore setting up Ollama to run a text based chat on one of our new GPU backed VPSs. Ollama is a free, open-source tool that simplifies running large language models (LLMs) locally on your computer. What is an LLM An LLM is a complex neural network trained on massive datasets of text…
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Beyond Gmail: Taking back control of your own email address
Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. – Douglas McIlroy Still borrowing an email address? Are you running your business or personal brand from @gmail.com, @outlook.com, or even an address tied to your ISP? Imagine you’re a small business owner who relied on their ISP-provided email address…
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A tour of the Woop! Host WordPress hosting service
Signing up You can sign up for a WordPress hosting site at https://woop.host/signup.jsp We just need to know the domain name, and preferred site location. Each new Woop! Host account starts with a no obligation trial. No credit card is required to begin your trial. For new accounts we will check the order then provision…
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Xmas and NY
The festive season is upon us, and the Rimuhosting team is preparing to enjoy some well-deserved time with friends and family. As we celebrate, we want to ensure our valued customers are aware of our holiday schedule. Between Friday, 20th December 5 PM (NZDT) and Monday, 9th January 8 AM (NZDT), our staff will only…
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Why are businesses ditching the cloud and returning to colocation?
The Shift from Cloud to Colocation: Embracing a Hybrid Future with Infrassembly The technology landscape is witnessing a significant shift as businesses re-evaluate their reliance on cloud computing in favor of colocation and hybrid solutions. This transition is exemplified by 37Signals, the company behind popular tools like Basecamp and HEY, which recently migrated its operations…
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Social media will be the death of websites and the businesses that depend on it
I’ve just returned from the .nz Registrar conference in my old stomping ground: beautiful, windy Wellington. Takeaways from the event? A woollen scarf and .nz hoodie—perfect for the Wellington weather. And the .kiwi notebook? Ideal for jotting down Zoom call notes. Besides the swag, another takeaway was the shock to hear of the burgeoning demise…
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RimuHosting news round-up
Every year or two we do a newsletter with a bit of news for our users. Here’s what’s new and noteworthy… Co-location made easy We’ve launched Infrassembly, a managed co-location service. Our clients can own their own servers, operate from a data center of their choosing, while we handle the setup and day-to-day operation of their…
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RimuHosting becomes a .nz domain name registrar
RimuHosting recently acquired the NetValue Hosting service. As part of this transition, RimuHosting Ltd has been managing domain name registrations for .nz domains by acting as a reseller to NetValue Ltd. Over the last few months we have been working with the NZ Domain Name Commission to apply to become a .nz registrar in our…