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Thanks a million for your help. Having dealt with other hosting providers who a) don't have a clue or b) don't have (or make) the time to help or c) just ignore you, it really is a breath of fresh air to get so much help. Frankly, I am astonished by how much you give for such a reasonable price. And you can stick that on your web site ;-)
- Rob (After we spent a little time setting up PHP5 for him. And you bet we'll put this on our site!) (#186/309)
This page lists many howtos that our customers have found useful.
Getting started: new VPS user orientation
DNS Howtos
Email howtos
- Setting up email: a postfix or sendmail HOWTO
- Emailing best practices: how not to spam
- Help! My emails are not getting through to hotmail/yahoo/gmail/etc users
- Postgrey: using greylisting to reduce spam
- DomainKeys install
- Setting up Mail (MX) DNS records
- Fixes to a couple of common mailman problems
- Moving IMAP folders between hosts
- Converting email from the mbox to Maildir format
- Postfix: spamassasin, virtual domains, tips
- Setting up postfixadmin (a control panel for managing email users)
- Is qmail evil? Managing qmail email queues. And a few other Qmail-related topics.
- QMail: setting up per-user spam filtering
- Squirrelmail
Web howtos
- Host multiple domains: setting up virtual hosts with Webmin
- Upload files and serve up HTML pages
- Password protecting your web pages: htaccess
- Securing your web traffic: installing an SSL certificate
- Who's looking at what: web statistics
- Using PHP: PHP Hello World, common problems and solutions
Java howtos
- Installing the Sun Java JVM/JDK
- Tomcat JSP hosting
- JBoss J2EE/EJB hosting
- Running JSP through Apache: mod_proxy_ajp or mod_jk2
- Java -Xmx settings: controlling your Java memory usage
- Installing Alfresco (CMS)
- Installing Ant (Java's 'make')
- Installing Liferay (CMS)
- Coding tips for internationalizing Java applications
- Jetty JSP hosting
- Accessing postgres via JDBC
- Tomcat's libtcnative connector
Plesk howtos
MySQL howtos
- Automated MySQL database backup
- PHPMyAdmin MySQL database manager
- Setting up MySQL replication
- MySQL notes
Working with Linux howtos
- Troubleshooting memory usage
- Moving files around: Setting up FTP
- Backup FTP server: offsite backups that you control
- SCP: an FTP alternative
- Automated incremental backups: Script to automate backups using SSHFS and rdiff-backup
- Securing your server: is your port showing?
- Securing your server: setting up a Linux firewall using IPTables and Webmin
- Preventing Brute Force SSH Attacks
- Backups with rSync
- Automated backups with RSync
- Accurate time with NTP
- Setting a UTC timezone
- Changing a hostname
- Application environment setup (using bash profiles)
Distro-related Howtos
- Debian: dist-upgrade Sarge to Etch
- RHEL4: RimuHosting Enterprise Linux4 to Centos4
- Ubuntu: dist-upgrading between versions
- Ubuntu or Debian locale errors
Miscellaneous Linux Articles
- Where has all my disk space gone?
- Using find and xargs
- Fixing slow ssh connects from Apple Mac clients
- Checking your resolv.conf entries
- Setting up disk quotas
- Bypassing dns servers using /etc/hosts
- Troubleshooting performance issues
- Quick and dirty memtest86
- Installing Debian/Ubuntu using debootstrap
- Accessing a VNC server behind a firewall
- Trapping ctrl-c in Bash
- Mass setting user passwords
- Working with Bash aliases
- IPv6 Support
RimuHosting-related articles
- Exploited servers: how to prevent being exploited, how to detect if you have been exploited, and how to recover from exp
- Changing the owner on a RimuHosting server
- Load balancing and failover
- Setting up a custom VPS file system image
- Monthly billing: description, common problems, and how to resolve them
- Moving servers: moving a VPS between host servers (and data centers), moving from a VPS to a dedicated server, moving fr
- How to enable RimuHosting SSH access to your server
- Server Backups: options for RimuHosting dedicated servers and VPSs
- Having a dedicated server and using it as a VPS host (and why that is a brilliant idea)
- Xen kernel options
Applications (installing and using)
- Working with RPM
- Package Management Made Easy With Apt
- Get Blogging: Installing Movable Type
- Setting Up A CVS Project
- Installing Virtualmin GPL
- RimuHosting Ruby-on-rails hosting stack
- Quicklook server resource usage reporting
- Subversion
- Postgresql
- Setting up Monit service monitoring
- Monitoring bandwidth usage with vnstat
- Bugzilla
- Grub bootloader notes