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WordPress + nginx quick setup
WordPress is a very popular blogging platform. We have a number of posts on how to set it up and keep it up to date on here already. In general those methods focus on deploying under the Apache web server. Recently we were pointed to a scripted method developed by they guys at rtcamp.com. They…
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Credit card processor change
FYI our original credit card processor (WorldPay) has pulled out of the New Zealand market. We are now using a different credit card processor (BNZ). You may find that the transaction description that appears on your CC statement is slightly different. It should still clearly identify the payment as being to RimuHosting (including for customers…
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Running Vagrant in your VPS
Vagrant is often used to set up development environments in a standardized way, so that your software project deployed via vagrant has a standard environment with all the operating system components and set-up it needs to work properly. It creates a virtual machine to provide this environment, so that different developers can work on it…
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Getting help
The following conversation plays out in our inbox and Live Chat a good few times a week. In fact, you may have received a link to this post from one of those places. If so, then the dialog below could be an easy way for you to better understand your situation and to get the…
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Restoring an Exploited WordPress files
I previously had a 10 step process to replace all the files in a wordpress, this got rid of most file based exploits. Since then i have written a shell script that pretty much incorperates that wget http://blog.rimuhosting.com/files/restorewordpress.sh chmod +x restorewordpress.sh ./restorewordpress.sh /full/path/to/documentroot Note: This does not do custom themes or plugins (only ones from…
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Free Kubernetes hosting for developers
RimuHosting are working on a command line tool set to easily setup and manage a Kubernetes cluster. We are currently in a trial phase. During this phase we will be providing free Kubernetes cluster hosting to developers needing an easy-to-setup, publicly-accessible Kubernetes cluster to hack on. Just email support at rimuhosting, mention this blog post…
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Kubernetes support on RimuHosting VMs
“Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions. Using the concepts of “labels” and “pods”, it groups the containers which make up an application into logical units for easy management…
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RimuHosting offering CoreOS
You can now order RimuHosting VMs running CoreOS! CoreOS lets you provide startup ‘recipies’ (via cloud init files) to automatically install and provision container based micro services and applications. You can use tools like fleet and kubernetes to manage clusters of CoreOS servers. Setting up a CoreOS server is easy. You just use our regular…
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Letting 3rd parties update credit card details
Some of our customers pay for their servers using a 3rd party’s credit card (their boss’, partner’s or a generous friend’s). Every now and then those details need to get updated (new CC expiry dates, or a replacement card). You can now let 3rd parties set their credit card details on our site without…
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DebConf15 Report
Camera Canon EOS 650D We love Debian. A lot. In fact we make it our recommended distro. We do that since it makes it easy to deploy, and maintain most recent packages resulting in fewer sysadmin headaches for us and our customers. This year we decided to send a delegation of one (Juan Rossi) to…