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Disabling exploitable proftpds
A stack overflow bug has been identified in ProFTPd. This bug allows users to gain remote access (usually root) to an attacker. This bug requires immediate attention and potentially a restore to the last backup image of your server. Information on the bug can be found here: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-4221 We have been handling the issue per…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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5 chances to get free EnvelopeHD hosting
Do you do support or sales support via email? Do you need to have 2 or more people involved? Looking for a tool to help you better manage your support? Well, we’re looking for some early adopters to test drive our EnvelopeHD email-centric help desk product. We want to select and setup 5 early adopters…
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Announcing Envelope: the email-centric help desk
At RimuHosting we do a lot of support. Thousands of emails a month. And we have a good sized crew of sysadmins handling those requests. To help us better manage how we respond to our customer emails our software developers created a software application which we call Envelope. Envelope hooks up to our IMAP email…
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Newegg shipping fail
At RimuHosting we’re big consumers of hard drives. Seems live every couple of weeks we are getting a couple of dozen ‘extra’ drives. (And note that when we buy servers we will typcally get them with two drives). We get most of our ‘extra’ drives from Newegg. Lately we have been noticing some pretty high…
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DNS import script project. Any takers?
A bit of a cheeky request… I’m looking for something that will import a BIND zone file in our name servers. Anyone interested in having a crack at that? I’m imagining something like a bash/perl/ruby/python script that parses a BIND zone file then uses our DNS api per http://rimuhosting.com/dns/dyndns.jsp to pop the values into our…
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Fun with lawyers, politicians and copyright
Like a lot of software developers I take an interest in copyright issues. I read the odd article, watch Linus and Richard debate GPL3, and was even once motivated enough to make a submission on another recent NZ copyright bill. The New Zealand government has a bill on the table looking at file sharing. One…
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RimuHosting adds live chat
Today are launching a trial of ‘live chat‘ support. This gives our customers one more way to access us (in addition to email, IM, tickets and phone). We still expect the bulk of our support work to be done via emails or tickets. Since that let’s both parties keep a good written history of the…