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  • WordPress Mass Upgrade Script 3.0.1

    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. It pays to check each site after the upgrade to…

  • Pingability Facelift

    While I was kicking back camping in Yosemite Justin here has been ‘messing about’ with CSS on our Pingability web check and alert service.  Bringing it from my 2003 design to something a little more contemporary.  Thanks, Justin. — Pingability lets you monitor your websites pages, check that things are running OK, and alert you…

  • 66% off .org domain name registration anyone?

    We use gandi.net internally for some of the domains we have.  Gandi have given me a few ‘promo codes’ for 66% off .org domains.

  • Virtualmin on the command line

    We often encourage our users to use software which is better, and does things in a standard way. When it comes to control panels we prefer Virtualmin. It works with the distro you are using and the packages that come with it rather than setting up things in its own odd way and tieing you…

  • WordPress & WordPress MU mass upgrade script 3.0

    Sorry for the slower than usual update this time. I was rather busy/sidetracked and left it for a day or two before doing it. Since it wasn’t a exploit fix release i figured it wasn’t a major. Anyway, here goes the new wordpress mass upgrade script. I no longer have a wordpress MU available to…

  • Free memory upgrade anyone?

    Want some more memory on your RimuHosting VPS? Guess what? It is a RimuHosting free memory upgrade day! Here is how it works…

  • inode problems and full disks

    Today we had a customer who had an interesting problem. They were getting the message ‘disk is full’ despite having plenty of free space. Luckily for him, my first thought was ‘inodes?’ I logged in and checked his inode usage

  • Keeping your SSH session alive

    We’re working on servers all day everyday, mostly by SSH. This can be annoying when you switch tabs and then want to go back to another and its timed you out and dead. A nice quick shortcut to kill that session is to type in ‘~.’ This needs to be on a new line so…

  • Formatting problems and Syntax Highlighting in wordpress

    As you may have realized, we use wordpress on our blog. Its simple and easy and nice to use, however it doesnt come without its oddities which can be a pain in the butt for a technical blog. — being translated into em-dash When doing firewall scripts or shell scripts you often use the double…

  • Did you know we have a DNS API?

    Seems some cool features get lost, and only staff know about them rather than the customers. I thought I’d point out to people we have an API for our DNS. This can be used by scripts for adding domains to your own VPS using PHP curl, or similar other things. Another excellent use is fail…

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