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Getting Started with Docker
Written by Andrew Colin Kissa Introduction We’re happy to announce the availability of Docker support on our VPS installations. In this blog post, we aim to introduce you to Docker one of the most exciting and powerful open-source projects that has sprung up in the recent years. In a nutshell, Docker offers you the tools to…
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Centos 7 Release – Whats New
Hot on the heels of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 release the Centos team have put out Centos 7 and now we are happy to offer a Centos 7 VM image on our control panel. You can select it on new installs and also on re-installs. This has been a long awaited update due…
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Two Factor Authentication
We have just added optional two factor authentication to the RimuHosting control panel. You can enable it at http://rimuhosting.com/cp/twofactor.jsp It uses Time-based One Time Password (TOTP) so you will need an application like Google Authenticator or Authy. To enable 2FA scan the QR code to your TOTP application then enter the 6 digit token your…
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Preventing brute force WordPress login attacks
Over the last month or two we have seen an increase in WordPress brute force login attacks. The symptom is typically higher CPU usage on your server (often resulting in slower page load times). It can be particularly painful on servers running php through fast CGI (like Plesk server setups). For a good summary of…
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Now accepting bitcoins
Currently is trial/manual mode. You can make a one off account payment with Bitcoins per the details on our payment page. As an introductory offer we will add an extra 20% credit on payments up to 1BTC. For more information on bitcoins visit Commodity.com.
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Start up Stories: Cashboard
What is Cashboard? Cashboard is invoicing software that also handles employee timesheets, estimates, and online payments. It’s geared towards freelancers and small businesses. Who are you, what is your role at Cashboard? I’m the founder, main designer, and engineer of Cashboard. Sometimes I play server admin too, but usually I have to email you guys…
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Kiwi PyCon 2013 Summary
For those who are unaware, Rimuhosting has sponsored a lot of conferences, particularly local ones including open source and tech related. We believe in giving back what you can to the community as much as possible . Peter, our wonderful boss, likes to encourage us to do the same, so often is happy to pay…
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Auckland Pycon tickets
As a sponsor of the New Zealand Pycon ( http://nz.pycon.org/), we are given a few free tickets for the event as well. We thought since we only have one staff member attending (Liz, who is speaking) that we should really not waste the other tickets we have. Since there are less females in the IT industry,…
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Old tomcat 5.5 installs being exploited
We have noticed a couple of people running older tomcat 5.5 installs, and these are being exploited . The main thing we noticed were slowdowns on bandwidth as well as CPU along with a few odd other things running as tomcat user eg www-data 20654 0.0 0.6 38616 8004 ? S 21:26 0:00 \_ /usr/sbin/apache2…
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10th Anniversay $100-off Sale
Happy birthday to us! RimuHosting has now been providing VPS hosting for 10 years. Let’s do some fun things to celebrate. First up a sale! We will add a $100 credit to your account when you order a new server with us. This offer applies to new VPS, VPS-on-dedicated and regular dedicated servers. Pricing starts…