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  • Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal install images

    We are proud to announce the release of the new installer images for Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal Server Edition. It is available as an reinstall option for existing servers, or in the new servers orders page The version is intended for those looking at getting newer versions of the packages for the 12.04 LTS (long…

  • Custom VPS Image via API

    The RimuHosting server management API can be used to create new servers (and shut them down and reinstall them and more). The API lets you pass in scripts that run during setup.  And to provide links to external files. This lets you do some interesting things.  Like using the API to setup a custom image. …

  • New Relic Shirts and Goodies Arrived

    Today a box arrived apon my doorstep, i was super excited when i saw the New Relic stickers on the outside! I took it to work, and opened it to find a slew of goodies including shirts, bottle openers, can coolers, stickers galore! I carefully went around every ones desk in the office sharing out…

  • Finding Exploits and Trojan php hacks on a website

    Its always unfortunate when you are exploited, and the best method to fix a site is to wipe and restore from a known backup as well as track down the entry point they gained access and fix it. Sometimes you need to ‘clean’ a site of these files before migrating things over however , or…

  • Servers for Hurricane Sandy refugees

    Has your hosting been affected by Hurricane Sandy?  We would like to offer you free hosting. Order a server from http://launchtimevps.com In the order comments say “My server xyz.com is affected by Hurricane Sandy.  May I please have the $50 credit.” We will verify that server has been ‘Sandy-ized’, apply the credit and setup your…

  • Blocking malicious crawlers or scrapers in Apache

    Occasionally we see a customer who has a popular website that often gets people trying to crawl it and copy the lot, This has the unfortunate side effect that its hammering the site. Made worse only by dynamic pages and loops this can literally take down a server in some occasions. Often you can slow…

  • Finding spam sending PHP scripts on your server

    Everyone has the occasional user who may leave something on their server that may send spam, or not update things as fast as they should. Tracking down the spammer can be a real problem though. Sometimes you can track down the domain, but not the script, other times they may have so many files that…

  • Installing Oracle RDBMS Server

    Oracle is a very popular database.  Particularly for enterprise customers running on dedicated servers with lots of CPU and fast RAID setups. This tutorial will guide you to install Oracle database server on CentOS Linux distro.  Hopefully the steps are simple enough that even a technically minded non-DBA can get the database installed. Oracle RDBMS…

  • Zonomi DNS TTL improvements

    There have been a few updates to the Zonomi service (and RimuHosting’s DNS as well after the next code push there).  These changes have been added to help address improve the service for a few ‘niche/advanced’ users. Time To Live (TTL) edits TTL values tell name servers how long they can cache DNS results before…

  • WordPress mass update script 3.4.2

    This script will search /var/www (changeable in a variable) for any wordpress installs and make sure its upgraded to the latest version. It will run a backup to /root/wp_upgrade/ of all files and database before doing anything with the site in case of major catastrophe (make sure you have spare disk space if your sites…

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