Author Archives: Peter Bryant

About Peter Bryant

Peter founded RimuHosting in 2003

10th Anniversay $100-off Sale

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Peter Bryant

Happy birthday to us!  RimuHosting has now been providing VPS hosting for 10 years. Let's do some fun things to celebrate.  First up a sale!  We will add a $100 credit to your account when you order a new server … Continue reading →

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DNS amplification DoS attacks

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Peter Bryant

If you are running a DNS server, then you need to check it is not being co-opted into 'DNS amplification attacks'. Random nasty servers (typically part of virus created bot-nets) send your DNS server a short request but use a … Continue reading →

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Happy holidays 2012

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Peter Bryant

Thank you to all our wonderful customers for your business in 2012. A number of our staff are taking a break over Christmas and the New Year to be with friends and family. And to take advantage of this beautiful … Continue reading →

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Servers for Hurricane Sandy refugees

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Peter Bryant

Has your hosting been affected by Hurricane Sandy?  We would like to offer you free hosting. Order a server from http://launchtimevps.com In the order comments say "My server xyz.com is affected by Hurricane Sandy.  May I please have the $50 … Continue reading →

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Zonomi DNS TTL improvements

Posted on September 19, 2012 by Peter Bryant

There have been a few updates to the Zonomi service (and RimuHosting's DNS as well after the next code push there).  These changes have been added to help address improve the service for a few 'niche/advanced' users. Time To Live … Continue reading →

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SSH keys on new servers

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Peter Bryant

You can now set your public ssh key(s) at http://rimuhosting.com/cp/sshkeys.jsp .  These keys will automatically be added to new server setups.  And the keys can be used when you enable a server's console-over-vps feature. SSH keys are great when you … Continue reading →

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RimuHosting is hiring!

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Peter Bryant

We are fortunate to have a lot of great customers.  In fact we are lucky enough to have enough of you that we are actually getting pretty darned busy. So we are looking to add another sysadmin or two to … Continue reading →

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Up-sized VPS options in Australia

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Peter Bryant

We are happy to announce that we have had some super fast servers land in Brisbane with a ton of memory.  As a result we can now offer even faster servers with more memory for less money.  Isn't Moore's law … Continue reading →

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SSD-backed VPS hosts

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Peter Bryant

We are happy to announce the immediate availability of SSD-backed VPS hosts. These servers run the VPS images on a RAID array of SSDs. The SSDs increase the disk IO throughput and decrease disk IO latency (particularly on 'random access' … Continue reading →

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London-based Bakop server added; Brisbane coming…

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Peter Bryant

We are happy to announce there is now a London-based Bakop server available.  This is in addition to the Bakop server in Dallas.  Plus we have one planned for Brisbane (hopefully coming on line next week...). You now have the … Continue reading →

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