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  • Hurricane Irene approaching New York

    As you may be aware there is a hurricane approaching New York. We have posted an operations notice https://rimuhosting.com/maintenance.jsp?server_maint_oid=597636491 Now may be a good time for customers (especially NY-based ones) to take a moment to check their backup and recovery procedures.  And ensure you are well prepared for any resulting incidents. Things to consider: Always know…

  • Apache exploit may crash your server – heres how to fix it

    We have picked up that there was an exploit in Apache which can result in your server running out of memory. the discovery was noticed quiet some time ago, but never fixed, and it seems to have reared its head publicly resulting in some people actively attacking. There is no patch for apache as yet,…

  • RimuHosting turns on redundant PSU and redundant power feed options

    We are happy to announce that we now able to offer dedicated servers with redundant power supplies as well as servers on redundant (A+B) power feeds. The redundant power supply means that your server gets two power connections.  Each drawing about 50% of the servers power.  If one PSU fails then the other takes over.

  • Wildcard DNS queries added to our DNS API

    We are updating our DNS API (Zonomi and RimuHosting) to support a name/host argument of **.example.com (where example.com is your DNS zone).  This will find any DNS records ending with example.com. This could be used, for example, in providing your own UI from end to our name servers.  Or for setting up slave DNS servers.…

  • 10 August Dallas outage report

    We posted a report on the Dallas power outage on 10 August CST. We are happy to update that report or contribute details here if you had any comments or requests. [Updated the notice at Sun 14@1008 UTC to include the data center outage report]

  • PCI compliance – a basic HOWTO

    A lot of people are wanting to be PCI compliant these days, and this is generally a good thing. PCI compliance is not just a server spec, but a list of procedures, policies, controls over access to data. Therefore the server side is only one part of the process. It can be expensive and time…

  • Centos 6 released for VPS usage @ Rimuhosting

    We now have Centos 6 available for our new and existing customers to install if needed. There appear to be no major differences other than newer versions of software, and no problems installing it or gotchas. You can read the release here http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.0 If you already have an older VPS and want to reinstall ,

  • HOWTO videos for Rimuhosting Control Panel on youtube

    Sometimes explaining how to do something in the control panel can be fairly involved, and often confusing for people new to VPS or Rimuhosting. We have a fairly involved control panel that can do a lot of tasks, and it saves you a lot of time if you can do these things yourself in your…

  • WordPress mass update script 3.2.1

    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…

  • Package management using apt-get

    Our support team receives a few queries each day about managing packages under Linux. All our installs have the APT toolset installed. We have a guide on some of the basic uses listed on our HowTo page. There are a a number of uses which can make life easier which I will detail below, but…

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