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Setting up Domains Keys (DKIM) on Postfix
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 claim some responsibility for the message and helps verify that your mail is legitimate. This…
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New drive options: bigger, faster Intel SSDs!
Intel recently released their new generation of 330 series SSD drives. These take over from the well regarded X25-M SSD drives. But add more capacity. Better performance. And lower cost per GB! Our new Sandybridge dedicated servers come with SATA3 which helps maximize the 330 series drive performance. Data sheets show that over SATA 3…
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Mysql Master/Master Replication & File sync for quick easy scaling or load balance
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 how to duplicate your server, and have the database and files replicate between the 2…
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Intel Dual Sandybridge servers avilable
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of powerful new dual processor servers running Intel Sandybridge E5-2620 or E5-2630 CPUs. These impressive machines are built on the popular Supermicro platforms using the X9DR-f motherboard This new platform will enhance any large scale dedicated or virtualized deployments with access to 24 hyperthreaded cores and support…
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin
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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Keeping your hosting panel updated
From time to time hosting control panels (Such as Plesk) get updated by their creators. Those updates may often include patches to critical vulnerabilities, so its a good idea to keep track of those. We try to keep our customers informed. One example is a recent notification from Parallels affecting some older versions of Plesk.…
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Wordcamp New Zealand – Scaling Servers
On the 22nd of April, I (Liz) was lucky enough to be able to speak on scaling WordPress and servers at the New Zealand WordCamp. The people there were great, and i ended up meeting and talking to many fascinating people about all sorts of code, servers, set ups among other things. I was a…
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Run your own kernel with PV-Grub
We have just added PV-Grub capability to our VPS offerings. PV-Grub lets you run a custom kernel on your server. Rimuhosting is all about flexibility and PV-Grub is one feature that will give our customers a lot of different options. Custom modules, latest kernel, old kernel, kernel development, lots of good stuff. We continue to…
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WordPress mass update script 3.3.2
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…
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$100/m off selected dual proc Xeons!
We have a very limited stock of some great dual processor Xeons available. For a limited time and while stocks last we are offering a $100/m discount on these servers. 2 x Intel Xeon Quad Core 2006 Clovertown or Harpertown CPU 1.6GHz+ (specific model would depend on available stock) Can take 4-24GB of memory. RAID…