RimuHosting Blog

Month: April 2011

  • RimuHosting News 2010 to April 2011

    Hi.  Every now and then we send out a newsletter.  The last one was in December 2009. Since then we have added a lot of cool new features and services that you may find helpful. 8 years old and lots of recent improvements RimuHosting just passed its 8th year anniversary in March (that’s 1000 years…

  • Migrating VPS with virtualmin – Multiple DNS changes

    We have had a customer move from one host to a new one with Virtualmin, this is usually ok, except in this case he had DNS hosted on his own VPS, most of it pointing to his old IP address. The task was to update all DNS records on his VPS without manually clicking each…

  • Previewing 25mail.st: managed email hosting service

    Mail server issues are one of the most frequent mail server requests we get here at RimuHosting.  Troubleshooting existing configurations.  Setting up ‘basic’ mail servers for customers.  Setting up fancy ‘do everything’ mail servers for customers.  Answering queries about why ‘x’ is flagged as SPAM (or not).  Advising on things like SPF and DKIM.  Blacklists…

  • WordPress mass update script 3.1.1

    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 in case of major catastrophe (make sure you have spare disk space if your sites…