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Worried about privacy on public meeting apps? Try Big Blue Button
Recently its come to light that Zoom were keeping video footage of meetings in their T&C. The Software Freedom Conservency calls on its members to eschew Zoom and instead use Open Source (and self-hosted) alternatives. If you are a company and want something a little more secure, that works easily with a nice web interface,…
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Text prompt AI image creation using Stable Diffusion and an NVIDIA A10 GPU on a RimuHosting VM
First, order a RimuHosting VM with a GPU. When prompted you would register or login to complete the order. For most GPU applications you will need a good amount of memory (10GB+) and disk (30GB+). We recommend the Debian 12 (bookworm) distro. At the time of writing only the Dallas data center has GPU-enabled hosts.…
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Case study: Nextcloud to the rescue for unhappy tradies using Office365
Providing effective IT solutions to franchisees is crucial for optimizing operations and streamlining business processes. In this case study, we explore how Paul, an IT support specialist at a master franchisor, successfully implemented a self-hosted alternative to Office 365 using Nextcloud on a RimuHosting VM. By doing so, he enabled franchisees, primarily tradespeople such as…
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RimuHosting 20th anniversary Cyclone Gabrielle fundraising
RimuHosting is marking it’s 20th anniversary in March. 20 years in business with some amazing clients and staff has left us in a strong position. We recently launched our ‘being useful’ policy which lets us support community organisations who use technology to help others. The recent weather events around New Zealand shows the need for…
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Employee profit-sharing
In March 2023 RimuHosting will have been providing Linux servers for 20 years. For this occasion, and in a break from our typical technical posts, I’ll be writing about a recent RimuHosting business initiative. One that will help us continue to fulfil our mission to provide our customers a hassle free hosting experience. 20 years…
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DNS Aliases for bare/root/apex domains on Zomomi and RimuHosting DNS
Zonomi and – very shortly – RimuHosting have been updated to permit ALIAS records for root/bare/apex domains. Background. Many web services – eg. Azure, AWS, or our own Woop! Host wordpress hosting service – make use of CNAMEs. They let you point a domain like www.example.com to an alias like site-1234.woop.host. This lets the service…
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DNSSec
DNSSec lets domain owners give their registrar a key that permits DNS clients to verify the records they are receiving are valid ones for the zone. This check can help to protect DNS clients getting spoofed records from their ISP name servers. After you enable DNSSec you will need to add a key at your…
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Server patch tool
Every now and then there is a security issue that has the potential to impact a large number of customers. RimuHosting has created a server patching tool that automates fixing or mitigating a number of these issues for its customers. Automated Schedule-able Web based Permits opt-out per issue Works across different Linux distros
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PolicyKit security hole
A security problem was recently announced that affects the linux distributions that we support. This is being called “PwnKit” (a.k.a. CVE-2021-4034). Most distributions have provided updates, so now is a good time to check and load outstanding OS security updates for your VPS, using apt for Debian and Ubuntu and yum for CentOS 7 and…
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SMTP, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, TLS
Did you know anyone can send an email impersonating your email address? Back in 1971 when ’email’ was invented and later when it was connected to the Internet both email users knew each other. Since then spammers and other bad actors started to abuse this ‘feature’. And since then some new mechanisms have been added…