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How we migrated services to a new data center (with no downtime)
A couple of years back we acquired the hosting operations of NetValue Ltd. That included two data center sites: one in Auckland and one in Hamilton. The Auckland center was much bigger and had more equipment and better internet connections, but both had similar network designs. Early on, were hit with intermittent issues with our…
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Beyond Gmail: Taking back control of your own email address
Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. – Douglas McIlroy Still borrowing an email address? Are you running your business or personal brand from @gmail.com, @outlook.com, or even an address tied to your ISP? Imagine you’re a small business owner who relied on their ISP-provided email address…
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Why are businesses ditching the cloud and returning to colocation?
The Shift from Cloud to Colocation: Embracing a Hybrid Future with Infrassembly The technology landscape is witnessing a significant shift as businesses re-evaluate their reliance on cloud computing in favor of colocation and hybrid solutions. This transition is exemplified by 37Signals, the company behind popular tools like Basecamp and HEY, which recently migrated its operations…
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Would you use co-location hosting if it was easier?
We are excited to announce the launch of InfrAssembly, a digital infrastructure assembly service designed to simplify the complexities of co-locating servers and networking gear in data centers. Understanding co-location Your own equipment in a data center. Co-location hosting allows you to own or lease your servers and networking equipment, while contracting space and power…
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Worried about privacy on public meeting apps? Try Big Blue Button
Recently its come to light that Zoom were keeping video footage of meetings in their T&C. The Software Freedom Conservency calls on its members to eschew Zoom and instead use Open Source (and self-hosted) alternatives. If you are a company and want something a little more secure, that works easily with a nice web interface,…
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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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DNS Aliases for bare/root/apex domains on Zomomi and RimuHosting DNS
Zonomi and – very shortly – RimuHosting have been updated to permit ALIAS records for root/bare/apex domains. Background. Many web services – eg. Azure, AWS, or our own Woop! Host wordpress hosting service – make use of CNAMEs. They let you point a domain like www.example.com to an alias like site-1234.woop.host. This lets the service…
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SMTP, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, TLS
Did you know anyone can send an email impersonating your email address? Back in 1971 when ’email’ was invented and later when it was connected to the Internet both email users knew each other. Since then spammers and other bad actors started to abuse this ‘feature’. And since then some new mechanisms have been added…
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VM backup and download
The following code snippet uses our https://github.com/pbkwee/s2i project to let you create a backup image of a Linux server, encrypt it, and then make it available for download (or transfer it directly to a remote server). s2i requires PHP, and can make use of PHP’s built in HTTP server. You will need sufficient disk space…
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DKIM and subaddressing added to 25mail.st
We have added a couple of features to the 25mail.st service. First, we now support DKIM email signing. This lets our email servers sign outgoing messages so that recipients can verify that the email was sent from an authorized server. You will need to add a DNS entry for each email domain wishing to have…