RimuHosting Roll Call

[retep]

Hello to all our 'old' customers who stumble across this new forum.

We've worked closely with many of you and have gotten to know you and your systems and sites really well.

These forums are a way of extending what has been a 2-way dialog into a community of RimuHosting servers owners. Where great ideas are shared, and problems are solved.

I'd be most obliged if people would register and post a quick shout out about themselves and how they are using their servers. Knowing what you all are doing, it should make an interesting read.

[opalmirror]

I use my VPS to run several Loowit (http://www.loowit.net) network domains (http://loowit.net/domains.html). These are light-duty websites for personal, educational, and commercial uses. DNS for these domains is primarily served from here.

Presently apache and PHP4 is as fancy as the web applications goes. I have squirrelmail set up for webmail, spong for monitoring the server itself and two other servers I manage on the net (not at rimuhosting), and TWiki for collaboration. All these are lightly used. Webalizer keeps track of usage.

For email I run exim, mailman for a few large but infrequent mailing lists, and amavis with clamav and freshclam for virus checking. Spamassassin performs spam checking as well. These seem to be fairly heavyweight solutions but they are necessary. Email gets delivered to this box as the primary server, but is quickly sucked off it with fetchmail and POP to the end users.

Backups I use doing dump to a file (excluding that file from the dump list, naturally).

It's all Debian sarge (testing), and frequent (more than once/week) apt-get dist-upgrade calls seem effective in keeping the hackers at bay.

[spader]

I use my server for running a website, hosting a forum, arcade, news system and a few other things.

Its a site for an 'online game team' but primarily I wanted to learn Linux better and PHP and this all sort of worked out nicely with the website. Our members are from all parts of the world. Mainly NZ and Australia but there are some from China and USA also.

I work in Network Security so i needed somewhere remote to do VA's so I also run Nessus with a remote console on Windows that connects via a SSL connection.

There is also a F1 Database of stats going all the way back to the 50's to current and it is one of the most comprehensive available on the net. Updates take some time as it is maintained by a friend in Germany I'm just hosting a mirror for him http://www.xteam.co.nz/f1db

I use Squirrel Mail for webmail and am setting up spam assassin and snort for a play. I backup my databases remotely using MySQL Administrator.

X Team New Zealand (http://www.xteam.co.nz)

[RedOut]

I didn't find these forums for half a year because RimuHosting has been so trouble free for me. I forget that it's even being hosted. I was very familiar with the forums at my old host though :D

I run a college football forum. We get pretty modest traffic, But have a DB of over 160,000 messages. Using PHPBB and MySQL It can be a memory hog at times, but I get by with 96MB of memory somehow.

In addition I also run a mailserver for a couple domains I have. I'm using a very kludged together hack of vPOPmail and QMail Toaster to handle SMTP and IMAP/POP for multiple domains. Squirrelmail is the frontend I'm using right now.