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RimuHosting’s Haiti earthquake relief appeal
RimuHosting has setup a special referral link http://rimuhosting.com/?r=haiti to raise funds for Haiti earthquake relief. For every server ordered after using that URL before the end of February RimuHosting will donate 20 NZD to Haiti earthquake relief. Since aid is needed in Haiti _right now_ RimuHosting has made an advance $500 contribution to the NZ…
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rdiff-backup script using sshfs for larger backups
We have had a few customers who have much more data to back up, and taking a copy of that every day uses a LOT of disk space and can be time consuming. The answer is rdiff-backup . It does incremental backups whenever you run it, only backing up the difference from the initial complete…
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WordPress 2.9.1 mass upgrade script
Okay, I have rolled the usual ‘upgrade all instances of wordpress’ script. Heres your script to upgrade them all. wget http://b.ri.mu/files/wordpress-upgrade-2.9.1.sh ; sh wordpress-upgrade-2.9.1.sh Because the previous version has one less number (it shows up as 2.9 rather than 2.9.0 ) you may notice that it says You have version 29.’; located at /path/etc Just…
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Quick and Easy Automatic Backup Script
At Rimuhosting we do a weekly snapshot backup of your VPS. This means that if anything goes wrong you can revert to the previous image. However since its weekly, not daily, you may find you have lost the data between those dates. This is a backup script that will backup your database and required files…
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PHP 5.2 on Centos upgrade
Many of our customers request upgrading php to the latest stable version. Unfortunately CentOS does not have anything beyond 5.1.* in the official repository. We used to setup the remi repository as per http://rimuhosting.com/howto/php.jsp However, Remi moved on to the latest 5.3 branch. Unfortunately the 5.3 branch is not compatible with most php CMS/blogs out…
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Holiday Hijinks
A few folks here in the office decided to have a bit of fun outside. We caught it on tape and have decided to share it with all of you. :) Video
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Virtualmin and Webmin upgrade errors & the fix
We had a customer email in saying they were having a problem upgrading. The error was fairly verbose, but the general gist was this –> Processing Dependency: /usr/libexec/webmin for package: wbt-virtual-server-mobile –> Processing Dependency: /usr/libexec/webmin for package: wbm-virtualmin-mailman –> Processing Dependency: /usr/libexec/webmin for package: wbm-ruby-gems –> Processing Dependency: /usr/libexec/webmin for package: wbm-ruby-gems –> Finished Dependency…
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Keeping things going over the holiday season
Well its that time of year again, and you do NOT want to be dealing with broken servers over Xmas. Heres a few tips to make sure things stay honkey dory over the Xmas period. Upgrades: Dont upgrade anything, do not do a new release, do not change anything at all. Sometimes even something that’s…
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Keeping Tabs on Successful Logins
There are a number of things that any sysadmin should be doing (or is already doing) to keep tabs on the systems they manage. One of the things that I do which is quite simple (read: quick and dirty) is having my server send me a message anytime a user logs into the server. I…