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SSH keys on new servers
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 want to avoid re-entering passwords every time you log into a server. The Ubuntu team…
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SSD-backed VPS hosts
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’ activities, like database inserts/queries). You can order a new VPS (just select the SSD option…
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Wordcamp New Zealand – Scaling Servers
On the 22nd of April, I (Liz) was lucky enough to be able to speak on scaling WordPress and servers at the New Zealand WordCamp. The people there were great, and i ended up meeting and talking to many fascinating people about all sorts of code, servers, set ups among other things. I was a…
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Monitoring your server
Its always a good option to have monitoring, and there are a lot of options available. If you are interested in uptime and notifications, you can use a service like http://pingability.com If you are interested in making sure services are up and running, and have more time to spare there are a lot of amazing…
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Using swap within a VPS
In a virtual environment, disk io can be about the most expensive operation there is. And swap (virtual memory) depends on that heavily. By default we configure a small swap partition for each VPS server so conditions where memory is exhausted can be detected more consistently,
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WordPress mass update script 3.05
From the guys at wordpress We’ve fixed a pretty critical vulnerability in WordPress’ core HTML sanitation library, and because this library is used lots of places it’s important that everyone update as soon as possible. I realize an update during the holidays is no fun, but this one is worth putting down the eggnog for.…
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Run your own VPS backups
We have just added a VPS snapshot/backup page to the RimuHosting control panel. By default for each VPS we run a weekly backup. This creates a snapshot of your VPS disk image. Which you can then restore to (e.g. to revert to an earlier time) or mount along with your current file system (e.g. to…
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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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Introducing Launchtime tailored pricing plans
RimuHosting is proud to introduce the Launchtime tailored pricing algorithm. This algorithm is an alternative to ‘fixed’ pricing plans. And it will be a key tool for us to provide more affordable, fairer and more flexible pricing. Traditional hosting ‘fixed’ pricing plans offer a set of plans to choose from. Sometimes (but not always) with…
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Resolving ‘My website is slow’.
We recently had a customer whose website was taking a long time to load. When we checked it was loading fine. And we could not really find any issue with load on the server. Then we used the excellent firebug plugin for firefox to check what elements (css, js, imgs) the site was loading. And…