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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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Monitor sites for exploits
We dislike dealing with exploited websites. A common cause is “the long forgotten outdated install from a web developer who left years ago. hoping works forever”. Public facing services need to be kept updated in order to remain secure, so script-kiddies can’t use your server for abuse, like selling dodgy medicinal products. One would always…
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Using Vagrant to Manage Rimu VPS systems
Vagrant is high level wrapper around virtualization and configuration management software. It simplifies the creation and management of easily reproduceable environments. It is particularly suited for development and test enviroments where servers are brought up and down frequently. It can also be used to bootstrap production systems. It can be used with configuration management software…
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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…
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Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal install images
We are proud to announce the release of the new installer images for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal Server Edition. It is available as an reinstall option for existing servers, or in the new servers orders page The version is intended for those looking at getting newer versions of the packages for the 12.04 LTS (long…
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Custom VPS Image via API
The RimuHosting server management API can be used to create new servers (and shut them down and reinstall them and more). The API lets you pass in scripts that run during setup. And to provide links to external files. This lets you do some interesting things. Like using the API to setup a custom image. …
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WordPress install script
We like wordpress, a lot of our customers love it too. WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog, it is normally called a CMS too. We have created a script for automating the install of the last version of wordpress, even though installing wordpress is quite a trivial…
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin
We are delighted to offer the latest release of Ubuntu Server, codenamed Precise Pangolin. That is available as an reinstall option or for order on all our VPS and dedicated server ordering pages.
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Run your own kernel with PV-Grub
We have just added PV-Grub capability to our VPS offerings. PV-Grub lets you run a custom kernel on your server. Rimuhosting is all about flexibility and PV-Grub is one feature that will give our customers a lot of different options. Custom modules, latest kernel, old kernel, kernel development, lots of good stuff. We continue to…