RimuHosting Blog

Category: WordPress

  • How to Migrate a Hacked WordPress Site Safely

    How to Migrate a Hacked WordPress Site Safely

    A real hacked WordPress migration showing how an AI agent handled the transfer, isolation, cleanup and rebuild through a simple conversation.

  • WordPress malware removal is difficult. We gave the job to an AI agent

    WordPress malware removal is difficult. We gave the job to an AI agent

    WordPress malware removal is difficult, risky work. See how a Woop! Host AI Resident Engineer cleaned and rebuilt a real compromised site.

  • We migrated a WordPress site in seven minutes. Then I interviewed the two AIs who did it.

    We migrated a WordPress site in seven minutes. Then I interviewed the two AIs who did it.

    Every Woop! Host site comes with a Resident Engineer — an AI agent residing on the server itself, with a shell and a library of WordPress skills. Today two of them moved a site between two of my servers. I mostly answered multiple-choice questions. Afterwards, I sat them both down for a debrief. Migrations are…

  • A deep dive into building a secure, fast, easy to manage WordPress hosting stack

    A deep dive into building a secure, fast, easy to manage WordPress hosting stack

    WordPress is easy to install. But to make it run smoothly, it needs a production-ready WordPress hosting stack around it. A good stack does several jobs at once: It serve pages quickly. It keeps WordPress, plugins, PHP, MariaDB, and the operating system updated. It blocks common attacks without breaking legitimate admin work. It gives customers…

  • A tour of the Woop! Host WordPress hosting service

    Signing up You can sign up for a WordPress hosting site at https://woop.host/signup.jsp We just need to know the domain name, and preferred site location. Each new Woop! Host account starts with a no obligation trial. No credit card is required to begin your trial. For new accounts we will check the order then provision…

  • Zero-effort WordPress host migrations

    Need to get your WordPress from one host to another? It can be a lot easier than you think. This blog post walks you through the steps to migrate your WordPress website from one host to another. You’ve been with your current host for a while. But perhaps their price is starting to feel a…

  • Woop! WordPress hosting launch

    Today we launch our Woop! WordPress hosting service. We are pretty excited about this. Many of our RimuHosting customers run WordPress on the VMs they host with us. That makes sense since 30% of the world’s sites run on WordPress. For over a decade we have been working with these customers to keep their WordPress…

  • Finding and auto updating wordpress / themes / plugins with wp-cli

    For many years I have maintained a shell script that checks and can update wordpress. Its great, it needs nearly nothing and is handy for basic diagnosis, however its not good as something that can update things on a cron so well which multiple people have asked about.

  • Running WordPress as a Docker Stack

    In the advent of containerized applications it can be quite daunting to get started with docker and multiple containers in a cluster. In this post we will go through some of the terminology and how to get started in a simplified case for a single host, multiple containers application stack, with containers for wordpress, mysql…

  • 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 IP hammering away at that. The solution is simple, and it involves using fail2ban. Here…