Tag: code

  • 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…

  • Rimuhosting does LCA2010

    A couple of the die hard Linux fanatics here at Rimuhosting decided to bribe the boss into letting us go to Linux.conf.au this year, and in fact even managed to get him to become a little blue penguin sponsor. Luckily we have a fantastic employer[1] who was keen to get rid of us. We had…

  • Using libcloud with RimuHosting

    Libcloud.org has merged our RimuHosting driver into their Python library.  All of our api functionality isn’t included in that driver, but there are a number of handy things that you can do via just a smattering of python code.  I’m going to write a few articles on this topic to demonstrate some of the cool…

  • Announcing the RimuHosting REST-ful API

    Announcing the RimuHosting API The RimuHosting API is an programmable interface to manage some of RimuHosting services. It lets you do things like setup new VPSs, add memory or disk to existing VPSs, check your data transfer usage, grab host server load stats, reboot servers, and most other actions that until now you could only…