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  • We migrated a WordPress site in seven minutes. Then I interviewed the two AIs who did it.

    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 living 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…

  • 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…

  • Facebook page or website?

    Facebook page or website?

    Something a landscaping contractor said to me last week stuck with me. I found him on Facebook and asked if he’d thought about a website. He said, “Mate, I’m too busy with Facebook leads to bother.” Fair enough. But then he kept talking — and within two minutes he was telling me how most of…

  • Maintaining servers: Why updates must not wait

    Recent vulnerabilities in cPanel and the Linux kernel have served as a stark reminder: unpatched servers aren’t just a theoretical risk. Whether you manage one VPS or a fleet of production machines, the question isn’t if but when your services will be affected. What’s at stake — the recent CVEs Over April and May this…

  • We’re rebranding: NetValue Hosting is now WebAddress

    In 2023 RimuHosting acquired NetValue Ltd’s hosting operations. Since then we’ve moved billing and support to our systems and upgraded our Auckland data centre. We’re now starting a broader refresh of the service. The first change: NetValue Hosting is becoming WebAddress.

  • How we migrated services to a new data center (with no downtime)

    A couple of years back we acquired the hosting operations of NetValue Ltd. That included two data center sites: one in Auckland and one in Hamilton. The Auckland center was much bigger and had more equipment and better internet connections, but both had similar network designs. Early on, were hit with intermittent issues with our…

  • Get started with Moodle

    At Rimuhosting, we support a wide range of Moodle deployments — from simple academic setups to complex, high-availability platforms. This guide walks you through a clean and secure installation of Moodle 4.5 LTS, the latest long-term support release. Whether you’re launching a development instance, staging site, or preparing for full production, this setup gives you…

  • 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…

  • Beyond Gmail: Taking back control of your own email address

    Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. – Douglas McIlroy Still borrowing an email address? Are you running your business or personal brand from @gmail.com, @outlook.com, or even an address tied to your ISP? Imagine you’re a small business owner who relied on their ISP-provided email address…

  • A tour of the Woop! Host WordPress hosting service

    Signing up You can sign up for a WordPress hosting site at https://woop.host/signup.jsp We just need to know the domain name, and preferred site location. Each new Woop! Host account starts with a no obligation trial. No credit card is required to begin your trial. For new accounts we will check the order then provision…