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  • Confluence Wiki install script

    Quite often lately we have been asked to set up a Java based wiki, or customers have asked specifically for Confluence® (made by Atlassian® ) by name. Confluence is a powerful and sometimes complex piece of software, so to make the setup for that easier I created an install script. In a very short time…

  • Sandy Bridge servers in stock; get one quick

    Remember back a couple of years and Pentium 4 CPUs were nearly hitting 4Ghz?  Then along came the new Core 2 Duos and we were back to a mere 2Ghz (albeit with these new ‘cores’). Intel has been pushing performance via efficiency (e.g. multiple cores) not brute Ghz.  But that has always hampered ‘straight-line’ performance.…

  • $50 hosting credit for server migration

    I’d like to offer a USD 50 hosting credit to anyone ordering a new server with us where that server is currently hosted elsewhere. Get started now, order a fast VPS with a ton of memory at a pretty decent price using our Launchtime ordering system. Why order a server with RimuHosting?  We’re run by…

  • mod_flvx – flv movies working with apache/apache2

    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 distros use apt-get install apache2-prefork-dev The module load will automatically be created for you usually,…

  • WordPress mass update script 3.1.2

    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…

  • 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…

  • Jboss Exploits

    There is a JBoss exploit out in the wild.  See http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-0738 and https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-30741 for details.

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