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DKIM and subaddressing added to 25mail.st
We have added a couple of features to the 25mail.st service. First, we now support DKIM email signing. This lets our email servers sign outgoing messages so that recipients can verify that the email was sent from an authorized server. … Continue reading
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Whitelist your own computer in fail2ban
Fail2ban is a great "dynamic" firewall for servers that is installed by default on many of our VPSs, and we can install it on your VPSs at your request. It protects against brute-force attacks, where an attacker is trying to … Continue reading
Using Fail2ban on wordpress wp-login.php and xmlrpc.php
A fair few customer of ours use wordpress and occasionally notice that there are people hammering on a few URLs This can cause high load, slow websites and a number of issues, espoecuially when you have more than a single … Continue reading
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Using Ansible to manage your VPSs – Part Two
In this post I'm going to introduce playbooks, and show you how to customise the /etc/resolv.conf file on each server. I assume you have followed Part One of this series and have created a hosts file and files in ~/myansible/host_vars/. … Continue reading
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Using Ansible to manage your VPSs – Part One
Ansible is a system to automate the updating of server configurations and other administration tasks. In this post I'll explain what's necessary to get started with Ansible, creating a configuration structure, telling Ansble about your hosts and running ad-hock commands … Continue reading
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Tagged ansible, linux, ssh, sysadmin, vps
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New options for reduced VM pricing!
Not every server needs priority CPU, backups, and 24x7 fully managed support. We have added a few options on our http://launchtimevps.com ordering interface to let you tweak these settings to enable you to get a lower price for your server … Continue reading
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LXD containers now available for Ubuntu
The latest Ubuntu LTS release, Xenial 16.04 , comes with support for a container system called LXD. LXD builds on the existing LXC container system, allowing for more convenient management of those containers. In this post I show how you … Continue reading
Install ownCloud on a Rimu VPS
Owncloud is a popular file storage and synchronization system, with many additional features available for it. It's a self-hosted alternative to systems like dropbox, but with owncloud your files are stored on your own servers. This allows you to meet … Continue reading
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is here!
We are pleased to announce the availability of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server for new setups. This release has been code named Xenial Xerus. The official release notes are available from the Ubuntu team here. Our new VPS images are based … Continue reading
Keeping WordPress secure
According to Wikipedia, "WordPress is the most popular blogging system in use on the Web, at more than 60 million websites." It's also the most commonly installed blogging system on our customers' servers, and we use it to run the … Continue reading
Posted in HOWTO, Rimuhosting, Security
Tagged cloudflare, Security, upgrade, wordfence, wordpress
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