RimuHosting Blog

Month: May 2012

  • Installer updates, Glassfish, Confluence and more…!

    One of the services we provide includes maintaining a set of installer scripts for automating common tasks and setups our customers like to use. Those help you by taking the pain and time out of getting setup and serving the content you want to publish. From our tracking system some of the most significant changes…

  • May 2012 RimuHosting newsletter

    RimuHosting server specials and news Intel released their new dual processor Sandy Bridge platform, ‘the fastest server CPU you can get in a reasonably priced server’.  And of course we are now making those available to our customers.  Pricing from $369.00/m. Intel have been busy.  They also released (and we are now offering) their new…

  • Call for ‘startups start here’ stories

    For the last 9 years we have been helping start ups launch and run their services.  It is great to have a job where we get to help customers onto their path to Internet fame and glory. We are now looking to tell the stories of some of these start ups.  If you have bootstrapped…

  • Setting up Domains Keys (DKIM) on Postfix

    This is a quick and fairly painless way of setting up DKIM, on a postfix server. DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is a method for associating a domain name to an email message, thereby allowing a person, role, or organization to claim some responsibility for the message and helps verify that your mail is legitimate. This…

  • New drive options: bigger, faster Intel SSDs!

    Intel recently released their new generation of 330 series SSD drives.  These take over from the well regarded X25-M SSD drives.  But add more capacity.  Better performance.  And lower cost per GB! Our new Sandybridge dedicated servers come with SATA3 which helps maximize the 330 series drive performance.  Data sheets show that over SATA 3…

  • Mysql Master/Master Replication & File sync for quick easy scaling or load balance

    A lot of our customers often need a quick easy way to scale up without moving to a new host or changing IP, or even just want an overseas copy of their site, so this is a brief tutorial on how to duplicate your server, and have the database and files replicate between the 2…

  • Intel Dual Sandybridge servers avilable

    We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of powerful new dual processor servers running Intel Sandybridge E5-2620 or E5-2630 CPUs. These impressive machines are built on the popular Supermicro platforms using the X9DR-f motherboard This new platform will enhance any large scale dedicated or virtualized deployments with access to 24 hyperthreaded cores and support…

  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin

    We are delighted to offer the latest release of Ubuntu Server, codenamed Precise Pangolin. That is available as an reinstall option or for order on all our VPS and dedicated server ordering pages.

  • Keeping your hosting panel updated

    From time to time hosting control panels (Such as Plesk) get updated by their creators. Those updates may often include patches to critical vulnerabilities, so its a good idea to keep track of those. We try to keep our customers informed. One example is a recent notification from Parallels affecting some older versions of Plesk.…