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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…
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Using libcloud with RimuHosting
Libcloud.org has merged our RimuHosting driver into their Python library. All of our api functionality isn’t included in that driver, but there are a number of handy things that you can do via just a smattering of python code. I’m going to write a few articles on this topic to demonstrate some of the cool…
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External MX Records
I see this particular problem about once or twice a day it seems and probably have for as long as I’ve worked at Rimu. Sometimes customers opt to have their email handled via a 3rd party mail service (google apps, for example). If the hostname of your server is example.com and you’re trying to send…
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WordPress Upgrade Script 2.8.5
Heres a little Shell Script I wrote which, if run, will check your entire server for insecure versions of wordpress. If it finds any, it will give you the option to upgrade. If you say yes it will backup the existing sites file and database in /root/wp_upgrade and upgrade it. Please Note: This has not…
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Spam Addresses
I hate spam. I really hate spam. I guess everybody can relate to that. I not only hate spam, but I don’t like receiving correspondence from some website that made me register to view some content or post a message, some site that that I’ve ordered from or any other place that I’ve had to…