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WordPress malware removal is difficult. We gave the job to an AI agent
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AI website builder vs web designer: there is a useful third option
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We migrated a WordPress site in seven minutes. Then I interviewed the two AIs who did it.
Every Woop! Host site comes with a Resident Engineer — an AI agent residing on the server itself, with a shell and a library of WordPress skills. Today two of them moved a site between two of my servers. I mostly answered multiple-choice questions. Afterwards, I sat them both down for a debrief. Migrations are…
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Experiments with AI: get started with LLMs using Ollama
This post will explore setting up Ollama to run a text based chat on one of our new GPU backed VPSs. Ollama is a free, open-source tool that simplifies running large language models (LLMs) locally on your computer. What is an LLM An LLM is a complex neural network trained on massive datasets of text…
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Text prompt AI image creation using Stable Diffusion and an NVIDIA A10 GPU on a RimuHosting VM
First, order a RimuHosting VM with a GPU. When prompted you would register or login to complete the order. For most GPU applications you will need a good amount of memory (10GB+) and disk (30GB+). We recommend the Debian 12 (bookworm) distro. At the time of writing only the Dallas data center has GPU-enabled hosts.…
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Server patch tool
Every now and then there is a security issue that has the potential to impact a large number of customers. RimuHosting has created a server patching tool that automates fixing or mitigating a number of these issues for its customers. Automated Schedule-able Web based Permits opt-out per issue Works across different Linux distros
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Finding and auto updating wordpress / themes / plugins with wp-cli
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Running WordPress as a Docker Stack
In the advent of containerized applications it can be quite daunting to get started with docker and multiple containers in a cluster. In this post we will go through some of the terminology and how to get started in a simplified case for a single host, multiple containers application stack, with containers for wordpress, mysql…
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Letsencrypt with Zonomi and Rimuhosting name servers using hooks
SSL is good, you should use it everywhere! Letsencrypt it is a project that allows you to obtain signed certificates for free (you should consider donating though) to secure your website. Big efforts have been done to make this accessible to anyone. In order to issue SSL certificates Certificate Authorities will check that you can control…
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Using Ansible to manage your VPSs – Part Two
In this post I’m going to introduce playbooks, and show you how to customise the /etc/resolv.conf file on each server. I assume you have followed Part One of this series and have created a hosts file and files in ~/myansible/host_vars/. Tasks, playbooks, groups and roles A note on terminology. A task is something done on…