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Dedicated Bakop storage server instances
We had been running a Bakop storage server in most of the data centers in which we operate. We are just completing a project to upgrade the Bakop service stack software to the most recent versions. As part of this project we switched to using our RimuHosting API. The service now automatically spins up a…
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Using Vagrant to Manage Rimu VPS systems
Vagrant is high level wrapper around virtualization and configuration management software. It simplifies the creation and management of easily reproduceable environments. It is particularly suited for development and test enviroments where servers are brought up and down frequently. It can also be used to bootstrap production systems. It can be used with configuration management software…
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Free Kubernetes hosting for developers
RimuHosting are working on a command line tool set to easily setup and manage a Kubernetes cluster. We are currently in a trial phase. During this phase we will be providing free Kubernetes cluster hosting to developers needing an easy-to-setup, publicly-accessible Kubernetes cluster to hack on. Just email support at rimuhosting, mention this blog post…
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Kubernetes support on RimuHosting VMs
“Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions. Using the concepts of “labels” and “pods”, it groups the containers which make up an application into logical units for easy management…
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RimuHosting offering CoreOS
You can now order RimuHosting VMs running CoreOS! CoreOS lets you provide startup ‘recipies’ (via cloud init files) to automatically install and provision container based micro services and applications. You can use tools like fleet and kubernetes to manage clusters of CoreOS servers. Setting up a CoreOS server is easy. You just use our regular…
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Custom VPS Image via API
The RimuHosting server management API can be used to create new servers (and shut them down and reinstall them and more). The API lets you pass in scripts that run during setup. And to provide links to external files. This lets you do some interesting things. Like using the API to setup a custom image. …
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Per minute billing
We have recently had a couple of questions/comments about how/whether we do per- minute/hour/day/month billing. Our goal is to only charge you for the minutes you use on a server. When you first get a server we pro-rate the service fee for the current calendar month, create an invoice and charge your credit card before…
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Silverstripe CMS on Standing Cloud webinar Tue Dec 13 1300 PST
Join Standing Cloud and Peter from RimuHosting at Tue, Dec 13, 2011 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST for a webinar that demonstrates Standing Clouds one-click app deployment and management (to RimuHosting servers). We will be giving a demo using Silverstripe as our target app. And the webinar will be followed by a Q&A session.…
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Easy application hosting using StandingCloud and RimuHosting
Imagine being able to configure a server, pre-setup and ready to run your favorite webapp, with a push of a button. Need a bug tracking system? Just hit a button, and wait a minute, then log into your own Bugzilla app. No sysadmin skills required. No wondering about best practices or security upgrades. StandingCloud are…
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Wildcard DNS queries added to our DNS API
We are updating our DNS API (Zonomi and RimuHosting) to support a name/host argument of **.example.com (where example.com is your DNS zone). This will find any DNS records ending with example.com. This could be used, for example, in providing your own UI from end to our name servers. Or for setting up slave DNS servers.…