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Debugging broken mail daemons
Getting bounced mail? here let me try and explain a few of the more common problems. Have you added the domain to accept mail? You need to add the domain into the mail server so it knows to accept email for it. If it accepts mail for every domain then its fairly easy for somebody…
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Karmic Koala VPS Images Available
The latest 6 monthly Ubuntu build, Karmic Koala, was released to the public on Oct, 29th. That is now an option when ordering a new VPS or for a fresh install on an existing VPS (contact us if you have questions about retaining your data after the reinstall). If you don’t want to reinstall an…
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32bit or 64bit – Choose Your VPS Kernel
Sometimes we roll out new features in our control panel without announcing them. We usually do this so that we see a trickle of new users initially which helps identify any bugs or missing functionality before the entire userbase starts hammering the new features. :) Selecting your VPS kernel bit-edness (32bit or 64bit) is one…
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Twitter Competition – Who won?
The randomly chosen main prize of $100 VPS Hosting credit went to a guy called Simon W @simon_w – http://simon.geek.nz/ Simon had been desperate to get away from shared hosting. He couldn’t afford to move to his own VPS for another couple of months, so we really happy that he won. We decided because we…
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RimuHosting launches NZ-based VPS hosting
I am happy to announce RimuHosting is now offering NZ-based VPS hosting. The plans are listed at http://rimuhosting.com/auckland-servers RimuHosting is an NZ company. But we have never hosted servers from NZ-before. Most of our customers (and therefore servers) are over in the US and the UK. So a couple of weeks back had our San…
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Twitter competition: Win $100 worth of RimuHosting hosting credits
For a bit of fun RimuHosting is giving away a $100 VPS hosting credit. For example, that is 5 months’ worth of MiroVPS1 hosting for your own website! To enter just re-tweet this message: RT: @rimuhosting is giving away $100 worth of VPS hosting credits. Visit http://tinyurl.com/twittercredits for more info! Click for an easy retweet…
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RimuHosting takes over the operation of HostingDirect’s VPSs
Today RimuHosting has entered into an agreement to take over the operation of HostingDirect’s VPSs and their billing. Ben Simpson of Hosting Direct emailed some of his VPS customers today saying: Morgan from Hosting Direct will be leaving the team on the 12th of November 2009, he was the one who created the VPS infrastructure…
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Postfixadmin – debian – mysql and errors
A lot of our users use postfixadmin, it means email users are in the database, its easy to use, easy to admin. However the setup can be a little tricky for those not used to it. If you want to have a go doing it yourself, we have a great tutorial here http://rimuhosting.com/knowledgebase/linux/mail/postfixadmin Today however…
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Upgrading to Karmic Koala ? VPS broken? Heres the fix!
If you upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10, and rebooted, and it hasn’t come back up, here’s what to do The first thing you try is the console https://rimuhosting.com/cp/vps/console.jsp . Add your key or setup a password and then ssh into the host it gives you to see if you actually have this problem. If you can…
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Postfix problems that keep popping up
We have had several customers with postfix problems and they seem to be all of a similar nature, so i thought i would blog a couple. The most common one is trying to use both aliases and virtualhosts for a domain. Especially with Virtualmin which tries to do both. The main symptoms are something in…