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  • December 2011 Newsletter

    Welcome to the latest RimuHosting newsletter. We will try to keep you posted on some of the our key news since the last newsletter back in April (http://blog.rimuhosting.com/2011/04/19/newsletter-2011-04/) Launching 2 Parts Magic software development services RimuHosting’s latest venture is a team of web application developers-for-hire. 2 Parts Magic (http://2partsmagic.com) builds made-to-order web application software.  So…

  • Silverstripe CMS on Standing Cloud webinar Tue Dec 13 1300 PST

    Join Standing Cloud and Peter from RimuHosting at Tue, Dec 13, 2011 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST for a webinar that demonstrates Standing Clouds one-click app deployment and management (to RimuHosting servers). We will be giving a demo using Silverstripe as our target app.  And the webinar will be followed by a Q&A session.…

  • Fixing broken permissions or ownership

    People are not perfect, not even the staff here. Perfection is not required to be a sysadmin we found, just some good shell scripts to fix things when you break them accidentally. One of the more common accidents are chown or chmod ones, especially the ones done as root from / . Its easy to…

  • Using swap within a VPS

    In a virtual environment, disk io can be about the most expensive operation there is. And swap (virtual memory) depends on that heavily. By default we configure a small swap partition for each VPS server so conditions where memory is exhausted can be detected more consistently,

  • Easy application hosting using StandingCloud and RimuHosting

    Imagine being able to configure a server, pre-setup and ready to run your favorite webapp, with a push of a button.  Need a bug tracking system?  Just hit a button, and wait a minute, then log into your own Bugzilla app.  No sysadmin skills required.  No wondering about best practices or security upgrades. StandingCloud are…

  • Checking a potentially hacked machine and reinstalling packages when you break things

    Sometimes you may see something odd go past in the logs, on the screen, or something might just seem a bit ‘off’ somehow. Its a good idea when this happens to just double check that things are as they should be, verify packages, binaries, check logs etc Here are a few things i find helpful…

  • VPS-on-dedicated server hosting v2.0

    Today RimuHosting introduce our version 2.0 of our VPS-on-dedicated server hosting.  With this upgrade you get: Instant dedicated server setups. Great discounts on selected dedicated servers (starting at $120/m). The power of dedicated servers with the convenience of cloud virtualization. Dedicated server hosting billed by the minute or hour or day or month. VPS-on-dedicated-server hosting…

  • DigiNotar and SSL certificates

    Great news! We were pretty sure, but a recent notification from our certificate supplier told us that none of the certificates ordered on behalf of our customers are signed by DigiNotar. For those of you not aware, DigiNotar is a Certificate Authority who provided signed SSL Certificates against their own trust chain. Which was recognized…

  • Why is your server sending spam? why does it keep crashing with high load?

    We get asked these questions regularly, and 9 out of 10 times it may be because your server may have been hacked, either on a user level, web application, or more. Here are some ways to quickly check for the most common things we see , and some of the processes we go through to…

  • Could not perform immediate configuration on already unpacked ‘util-linux’.Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details

    Today we had a customer who had somehow broken his apt package manager doing an upgrade from the looks. I googled and found the same error in many places, most resorting to reinstalling or purging the package to clear it, or reinstall. The error looked like this

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