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This page lists many howtos that our customers have found useful.

Getting started: new VPS user orientation

DNS Howtos

• Using RimuHosting's DNS servers
• Setting up DNS: BIND via Webmin

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

• 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

• Plesk notes
• Running Tomcat when you have Plesk

MySQL howtos

• Automated MySQL database backup

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
• 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

RimuHosting-related articles

• Exploited servers: how to prevent being exploited, how to detect if you have been exploited, and how to recover from exploits
• 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 from another hosting provider to RimuHosting
• 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
• PHPMyAdmin MySQL database manager
• Setting up MySQL replication
• MySQL notes
• Setting up Monit service monitoring
• Bugzilla
• Grub bootloader notes