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Rimuhosting does Software Freedom Day
Well I’m sure most geeks out there have heard of Software Freedom Day, it was the same day as Talk like a Pirate day! I’m glad however that most people forgot ‘Talk Like a Pirate’ day however, since a good portion of the NZ Rimuhosting staff were helping out at the local SFD. John, Paul,…
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Is your VPS slow to login at all? Applications not running so fast?
Often we will get customers emailing in saying that things are just running ‘slow’. Often when we login the first thing we notice is after the password has gone through it just hangs for a fair while before login. This is usually a sign that its trying to do a reverse DNS lookup and failing.…
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Safe rm prevents accidents! try it!
I found this the today http://www.safe-rm.org.nz/ , and having had the odd accident im most definitely going to be installing this on my own server! What is safe-rm? Safe-rm is a safety tool intended to prevent the accidental deletion of important files by replacing /bin/rm with a wrapper, which checks the given arguments against a…
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New website release coming up
Heya guys Well this is a special release just for you guys who watch the blog. It seems the dev guys have been hard at work and put together a couple of new websites designs! We are just tweaking it a little but thought we would give you a nice sneak preview of both of…
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libc6 vs libc6-xen problems with applications segfaulting
We recieved the following email this morning which may be a problem from time to time with other users, so i thought I would share this. Subject: Seg faults on apache mysql and a couple of other less import programs. Probably need a fresh install. Message: Hi I have a serious problem with my VPS…
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Domain Name Confusion
This is something we see time and time again. It is fair to say, unless you have had a bit of experience with it, can be a bit confusing. So here is a breakdown of the domain name components.. Registrar This is the business you pay a yearly fee to register your domain name. i.e.…
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Themed days in support
I notice that we seem to have waves of support in various ways. One day we will start our shift and be totally overloaded the entire day, so busy that we end up doing a little extra after hours (posting this blog whilst cooking dinner today!). Other days its pretty dull so we play table…
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nginx hacking using proxy
It sucks getting hacked Every now and then servers get hacked. Often because of an exploitable webapp, or because (most commonly) a weak, easily guessable password was used on a well known user account (like ‘root’ or ‘info’ or ‘test’). Once hackers gain access they often install some kind of malware. e.g. something that goes…
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Ubuntu 9.04 bug with networking directory creation
We had a customer email in after updating to Jaunty recently. They said the following Hi guys, I upgraded my VPS a little while back to Ubuntu Jaunty (because I was several versions out of date and the apt repositories had gone away.) I never actually rebooted the machine afterwards though because it wasn’t a…
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Fixing apache file and directory permissions
I’ve seen this problem a few times, people having trouble getting the permissions right for websites. Heres a quick fix that will sort you in most cases For directories run find /path/to/domain/public_html/ -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755 Files run this one find /path/to/domain/public_html/ -type f | xargs chmod 644 Make sure you…