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Now accepting bitcoins
Currently is trial/manual mode. You can make a one off account payment with Bitcoins per the details on our payment page. As an introductory offer we will add an extra 20% credit on payments up to 1BTC. For more information on bitcoins visit Commodity.com.
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Start up Stories: Cashboard
What is Cashboard? Cashboard is invoicing software that also handles employee timesheets, estimates, and online payments. It’s geared towards freelancers and small businesses. Who are you, what is your role at Cashboard? I’m the founder, main designer, and engineer of Cashboard. Sometimes I play server admin too, but usually I have to email you guys…
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Kiwi PyCon 2013 Summary
For those who are unaware, Rimuhosting has sponsored a lot of conferences, particularly local ones including open source and tech related. We believe in giving back what you can to the community as much as possible . Peter, our wonderful boss, likes to encourage us to do the same, so often is happy to pay…
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Auckland Pycon tickets
As a sponsor of the New Zealand Pycon ( http://nz.pycon.org/), we are given a few free tickets for the event as well. We thought since we only have one staff member attending (Liz, who is speaking) that we should really not waste the other tickets we have. Since there are less females in the IT industry,…
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Old tomcat 5.5 installs being exploited
We have noticed a couple of people running older tomcat 5.5 installs, and these are being exploited . The main thing we noticed were slowdowns on bandwidth as well as CPU along with a few odd other things running as tomcat user eg www-data 20654 0.0 0.6 38616 8004 ? S 21:26 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/apache2…
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10th Anniversay $100-off Sale
Happy birthday to us! RimuHosting has now been providing VPS hosting for 10 years. Let’s do some fun things to celebrate. First up a sale! We will add a $100 credit to your account when you order a new server with us. This offer applies to new VPS, VPS-on-dedicated and regular dedicated servers. Pricing starts…
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How to restore your root password after forgetting or being exploited via Single user mode
I have been seeing a few people unsure what to do when they lose or forget their root password. Some are resorting to reinstalling their server thinking this is the only option, however there is another option with Rimuhosting.
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Identifying exploits and exploited websites
I have made posts before regarding how to find exploits, and what to do about those previously, however it has come to my attention that some people are not even realizing what the basics are to look for. In this post i will give you ideas on what to look for, how to identify exploits…
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DNS amplification DoS attacks
If you are running a DNS server, then you need to check it is not being co-opted into ‘DNS amplification attacks’. Random nasty servers (typically part of virus created bot-nets) send your DNS server a short request but use a fake source IP address. Your DNS server then sends a (typically) long reply back to…
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Happy holidays 2012
Thank you to all our wonderful customers for your business in 2012. A number of our staff are taking a break over Christmas and the New Year to be with friends and family. And to take advantage of this beautiful kiwi summer. Sometimes downtime really is a good thing. So we will be operating with…