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  • A deep dive into building a secure, fast, easy to manage WordPress hosting stack

    A deep dive into building a secure, fast, easy to manage WordPress hosting stack

    WordPress is easy to install. But to make it run smoothly, it needs a production-ready WordPress hosting stack around it. A good stack does several jobs at once: It serve pages quickly. It keeps WordPress, plugins, PHP, MariaDB, and the operating system updated. It blocks common attacks without breaking legitimate admin work. It gives customers…

  • A tour of the Woop! Host WordPress hosting service

    Signing up You can sign up for a WordPress hosting site at https://woop.host/signup.jsp We just need to know the domain name, and preferred site location. Each new Woop! Host account starts with a no obligation trial. No credit card is required to begin your trial. For new accounts we will check the order then provision…

  • Zero-effort WordPress host migrations

    Need to get your WordPress from one host to another? It can be a lot easier than you think. This blog post walks you through the steps to migrate your WordPress website from one host to another. You’ve been with your current host for a while. But perhaps their price is starting to feel a…

  • Woop! WordPress hosting launch

    Today we launch our Woop! WordPress hosting service. We are pretty excited about this. Many of our RimuHosting customers run WordPress on the VMs they host with us. That makes sense since 30% of the world’s sites run on WordPress. For over a decade we have been working with these customers to keep their WordPress…

  • Keeping WordPress secure

    According to Wikipedia, “WordPress is the most popular blogging system in use on the Web, at more than 60 million websites.”  It’s also the most commonly installed blogging system on our customers’ servers, and we use it to run the blog you’re reading right now. One factor that has contributed to WordPress ‘s popularity is…

  • WordPress + nginx quick setup

    WordPress is a very popular blogging platform. We have a number of posts on how to set it up and keep it up to date on here already. In general those methods focus on deploying under the Apache web server. Recently we were pointed to a scripted method developed by they guys at rtcamp.com. They…

  • Restoring an Exploited WordPress files

    I previously had a 10 step process to replace all the files in a wordpress, this got rid of most file based exploits. Since then i have written a shell script that pretty much incorperates that wget http://blog.rimuhosting.com/files/restorewordpress.sh chmod +x restorewordpress.sh ./restorewordpress.sh /full/path/to/documentroot Note: This does not do custom themes or plugins (only ones from…

  • Preventing brute force WordPress login attacks

    Over the last month or two we have seen an increase in WordPress brute force login attacks. The symptom is typically higher CPU usage on your server (often resulting in slower page load times). It can be particularly painful on servers running php through fast CGI (like Plesk server setups). For a good summary of…

  • WordPress Upgrade shell Script – plugins, themes, crontab and more!

    2019: This script is still being maintained It’s been some time since i upgraded my wordpress upgrade script. Several reasons why, partially because i had patches from other people to merge in, partially laziness on my part (being busy with other things). However, the good news is, it is here, and its amazing and awesome…

  • 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…