I’ve just returned from the .nz Registrar conference in my old stomping ground: beautiful, windy Wellington. Takeaways from the event? A woollen scarf and .nz hoodie—perfect for the Wellington weather. And the .kiwi notebook? Ideal for jotting down Zoom call notes. Besides the swag, another takeaway was the shock to hear of the burgeoning demise…
Every year or two we do a newsletter with a bit of news for our users. Here’s what’s new and noteworthy… Co-location made easy We’ve launched Infrassembly, a managed co-location service. Our clients can own their own servers, operate from a data center of their choosing, while we handle the setup and day-to-day operation of their…
RimuHosting recently acquired the NetValue Hosting service. As part of this transition, RimuHosting Ltd has been managing domain name registrations for .nz domains by acting as a reseller to NetValue Ltd. Over the last few months we have been working with the NZ Domain Name Commission to apply to become a .nz registrar in our…
We are excited to announce the launch of InfrAssembly, a digital infrastructure assembly service designed to simplify the complexities of co-locating servers and networking gear in data centers. Understanding co-location Your own equipment in a data center. Co-location hosting allows you to own or lease your servers and networking equipment, while contracting space and power…
Recently, Qualsys discovered a vulnerability (a buffer overflow) in the dynamic loader’s processing of the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. Which can result in an escalation from local user access to root. This has been labeled as CVE-2023-4911 Running package updates on your server will address this.
On Monday, 2 October 2023, a significant partnership is forged as RimuHosting officially takes over the NetValue Hosting operations. This collaboration marks the beginning of a new chapter for both companies, ensuring enhanced and comprehensive hosting services for all our wonderful clients. Hosting Operations: RimuHosting is now at the helm of NetValue Hosting services, including…
We’ve heard your requests for a way to allow multiple team members to manage your RimuHosting services without sharing login credentials. Today, we’re excited to introduce the first version of this much-anticipated feature. Why Multi-User Access? Imagine you’re a business owner who initially set up the RimuHosting account. Now, you want to delegate day-to-day operations…
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…
Recently its come to light that Zoom were keeping video footage of meetings in their T&C. The Software Freedom Conservency calls on its members to eschew Zoom and instead use Open Source (and self-hosted) alternatives. If you are a company and want something a little more secure, that works easily with a nice web interface,…
First, order a RimuHosting VM with a GPU. When prompted you would register or login to complete the order. For most GPU applications you will need a good amount of memory (10GB+) and disk (30GB+). We recommend the Debian 12 (bookworm) distro. At the time of writing only the Dallas data center has GPU-enabled hosts.…