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Dallas network upgrade
Dallas is our busiest location. We have many, many cabinets there filled with wonderfully shiny servers (all black, as befits our Kiwi origins). That setup has grown somewhat organically since 2005. Our core networking wiring was starting to be a little scary. And network capacity (ports and bandwidth was staring to be an issue). So…
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RimuHosting turns on redundant PSU and redundant power feed options
We are happy to announce that we now able to offer dedicated servers with redundant power supplies as well as servers on redundant (A+B) power feeds. The redundant power supply means that your server gets two power connections. Each drawing about 50% of the servers power. If one PSU fails then the other takes over.
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10 August Dallas outage report
We posted a report on the Dallas power outage on 10 August CST. We are happy to update that report or contribute details here if you had any comments or requests. [Updated the notice at Sun 14@1008 UTC to include the data center outage report]
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Data transfer reporting page (new RimuHosting control panel feature)
We have added a new data transfer reporting page. It show data transfer usage for each server for the last 50-odd days. With a summary for this and last month. At the moment this page only shows useful information for your Dallas-based VPS and dedicated servers. Our networking setup in Dallas permits us to watch…
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Dallas networking improvements
This is a heads up about some networking improvements (at Dallas) we will be making over the weekend. In Dallas we take a network feed from our upstream providers. That feeds into our ‘core’ networking gear. And we distribute it from that core gear to the cabinets we operate in Dallas. The core gear is…