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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • London special, two months free hosting!

    ** Update: this offer is officially closed. If you are looking for cheap dedicated server options ask us about our Dallas based Core2Duo plans. We recently had a few unusual servers released to us. These powerful chassis are in an interesting fixed configuration, with 2xDual quad core E5410 Xeon CPUs, 24G RAM, and with 2x750G…

  • Tomcat 7 released, installer updated

    Tomcat is one the most popular Java servlet/JSP containers. Tomcat 6 has been out since 2006 and the Tomcat team has just announced the first stable release of Tomcat 7. At the time of writing version 7.06 is the latest stable release. Tomcat 7 implements the Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2 and EL 2.2 specifications. Along…

  • Setting up Monit + with tomcat

    We get asked a lot by customers to install and setup monit. Its not an overly hard task, in fact its pretty darned easy. Monit is brilliant for monitoring and restarting services when they are down, it can alert you or just restart after 5 failed connects/attempts. It handles everything from disk space, to memory,…

  • WordPress mass update script 3.04 – Urgent

    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.…

  • Happy holidays 2010

    Thank you to all our wonderful customers for your business in 2010. We have had a great time setting up servers and helping out with so many varied and interesting environments. And helping our customers launch some cool websites. A number of our staff are taking a break over Christmas and the New Year to…

  • Launchtime twitter competition

    Know an open source developer that is looking to launch their application?  Help them out by nominating them in our Launchtime VPS twitter competition. Yesterday we launchtimevps.com , the VPS-focused RimuHosting website.  http://blog.rimuhosting.com/2010/12/16/introducing-launchtime-ri-mu/ Today we would like to help some open source software developers launch their own website.  Competition-style for a bit of fun. Up…

  • Introducing Launchtime VPS hosting

    We are uber-happy to announce the 2010 UI RimuHosting website refresh.  And it is not all merely fresh fonts, headers, footers and colors.  We have a new ordering system to make it quicker and easier to get a new server up and running.  Simplified navigation.  A new domain.  And setup-as-part-of-the-order-process. launchtimevps.com domain: First up there…

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