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Launchtime twitter competition
Know an open source developer that is looking to launch their application? Help them out by nominating them in our Launchtime VPS twitter competition. Yesterday we launchtimevps.com , the VPS-focused RimuHosting website. http://blog.rimuhosting.com/2010/12/16/introducing-launchtime-ri-mu/ Today we would like to help some open source software developers launch their own website. Competition-style for a bit of fun. Up…
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Introducing Launchtime VPS hosting
We are uber-happy to announce the 2010 UI RimuHosting website refresh. And it is not all merely fresh fonts, headers, footers and colors. We have a new ordering system to make it quicker and easier to get a new server up and running. Simplified navigation. A new domain. And setup-as-part-of-the-order-process. launchtimevps.com domain: First up there…
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Proftpd exploitable versions
Due the severity of the proftp bug, and the mixed systems and versions in the VPSs, we many customers have switched to use vsftp, others just started using sftp, regardless that we have the following notes for customers willing to enable proftpd again: The bug affects versions >= 1.3.2rc3, for more information: http://bugs.proftpd.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3521 Here is…
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Forwarding email from one host to a new after migration
It seems a lot of people will move to a new server and want all the old email stuck in /var/mail – its not as easy as it seems to get the email migrated according to google, so I thought i would document it. If you have IMAP available, simply add the new account and…
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Introducing bakop
Introducing http://bakop.com, the offsite FTP backup service We have ‘broken out’ the popular RimuHosting-customer-only backupspace service into a standalone and separately branded service. That anyone can sign up for and use. You get to use however much space you need. No file quotas. The setup continues to use the linux-foo goodness that enables sshfs, sftp,…
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Older versions of debian and updates
We have come across several users who run older versions of debian. This is usually fine, sometimes for some reasons users are unable to update for some time but require a package to be installed. This is where the fun begins…
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Updating old installs – Plesk – and other nasty issues
When choosing a VPS often people go with the distro that suits them best, usually one they find easy to manage. Whilst this is fine, you also need to remember that at some stage in the future you will need to reinstall or upgrade. Debian/Ubuntu based distros seem to scale and upgrade versions fine with…
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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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Virtualmin on the command line
We often encourage our users to use software which is better, and does things in a standard way. When it comes to control panels we prefer Virtualmin. It works with the distro you are using and the packages that come with it rather than setting up things in its own odd way and tieing you…