RimuHosting Blog

Tag: Performance

  • A deep dive into building a secure, fast, easy to manage WordPress hosting stack

    A deep dive into building a secure, fast, easy to manage WordPress hosting stack

    WordPress is easy to install. But to make it run smoothly, it needs a production-ready WordPress hosting stack around it. A good stack does several jobs at once: It serve pages quickly. It keeps WordPress, plugins, PHP, MariaDB, and the operating system updated. It blocks common attacks without breaking legitimate admin work. It gives customers…

  • What can you do when AI Bots steal your content and hammer your websites?

    We’ve noticed a significant increase in bad bots crawling our servers, causing high load and ignoring robots.txt directives. Many of these are AI bots, along with some overly aggressive search engine crawlers. This might not be an issue for larger servers, but for smaller setups, it can easily cripple a website. A few things we’ve…

  • Kernel 4.14 LTS released

    We have added the latest 4.14 kernel to our list of stable kernels for 64bit VPS servers. The 4.14 kernel includes a large number of performance enhancements, including … filesystem io block_mq scheduler improvements new selectable scheduler options for disk io improved cryptographic performance cgroup2 support merged

  • How to get an A pass SSL rating for your SSL website

    Everyone wants security, and its ideal that your SSL certificates are also secure. With this in mind, websites like SSLLabs have a testing tool that is used to grade the SSL certificate installed on your server. Often people get a low ranking when its fairly easy to get an A. I could make this post…

  • Don’t let the OOM killer stop MySQL

    Many of our customers are successfully using MySQL (or MariaDB) databases on their servers, and they usually run fine as installed and do not need any special attention. However, occasionally problems can occur with MySQL, and this may indicate that some manual tuning is required. One scenario is when the system is short of memory,…

  • Dallas network upgrade

    Dallas is our busiest location.  We have many, many cabinets there filled with wonderfully shiny servers (all black, as befits our Kiwi origins).  That setup has grown somewhat organically since 2005.  Our core networking wiring was starting to be a little scary.  And network capacity (ports and bandwidth was staring to be an issue). So…

  • Tuning apache for production use

    Apache is probably the most common web service our customers use. It is an amazingly powerful and mature tool for serving all your website needs. And is very easy to get up and running with Our team is often asked to tune apache to run more smoothly, more quickly, and more reliably. With a few…

  • RimuHosting adds a Frankfurt presence

    We are excited to announce that we now offer servers in Frankfurt, Germany. This will be a great for users wanting a server central to the EU, and complements the plans we already offer in London. You can see more information about the data center at http://rimuhosting.com/datacenters.jsp We are using new generation Haswell-EP based servers…

  • Next gen Haswell-EP systems available

    Intel have just released their next generation dual proc Haswell-EP-based servers.  We ordered a batch from our trusty systems integrator.  And this morning the servers arrived at our Dallas data center loading dock!  Those same servers are now available now on our dedicated server ordering page. Pricing is from USD 409/m with a base config…

  • CPU usage graphs

    A quick new feature:  You can now view CPU graphs for your VMs the RimuHosting control panel.