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  • How to restore a WordPress site after hacks or exploits in 10 easy steps

    A lot of people use WordPress, and seemingly a lot forget to click the upgrade button regularly enough and find they are exploited.  In an ideal world, you would click that button whenever you see it needs updates, and have copious amounts of good backups. However, sometimes these things do not happen, and you need…

  • How to install Drupal on Plesk – Step by Step instructions

    We have had a customer who is not overly technical wanting these instructions. Since i thought he was probably not the only one wanting a simple step by step instruction on how to install drupal on plesk easily, i though i would put them on the blog for anyone else interested

  • 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…

  • Migrating email between IMAP accounts

    Often when people switch servers, or move to new providers, transferring email can be problematic. If you are using POP3, the email is already on your personal computer, however if you are using IMAP then you are stuck trying to add a second account and drag and drop for each user, or similar. Never fear,there…

  • 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…

  • How to restore your root password after forgetting or being exploited via Single user mode

    I have been seeing a few people unsure what to do when they lose or forget their root password. Some are resorting to reinstalling their server thinking this is the only option, however there is another option with Rimuhosting.

  • Identifying exploits and exploited websites

    I have made posts before regarding how to find exploits, and what to do about those previously, however it has come to my attention that some people are not even realizing what the basics are to look for. In this post i will give you ideas on what to look for, how to identify exploits…

  • Using perror to explain mysql error codes

    A customer came to us with a problem copying one database to another, and requested we do it for him.  Once we logged in we saw the error fairly quickly ~# mysqldump -uadmin -p`cat /root/.mysqlpass` database >dbdump.sql mysqldump: Got error: 29: File ‘./database/tablename.MYD’ not found (Errcode: 24) when using LOCK TABLES ~# It can be…

  • DNS amplification DoS attacks

    If you are running a DNS server, then you need to check it is not being co-opted into ‘DNS amplification attacks’. Random nasty servers (typically part of virus created bot-nets) send your DNS server a short request but use a fake source IP address.  Your DNS server then sends a (typically) long reply back to…

  • Happy holidays 2012

    Thank you to all our wonderful customers for your business in 2012. A number of our staff are taking a break over Christmas and the New Year to be with friends and family. And to take advantage of this beautiful kiwi summer. Sometimes downtime really is a good thing. So we will be operating with…

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