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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Introducing bakop
Introducing http://bakop.com, the offsite FTP backup service We have ‘broken out’ the popular RimuHosting-customer-only backupspace service into a standalone and separately branded service. That anyone can sign up for and use. You get to use however much space you need. No file quotas. The setup continues to use the linux-foo goodness that enables sshfs, sftp,…
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Disabling exploitable proftpds
A stack overflow bug has been identified in ProFTPd. This bug allows users to gain remote access (usually root) to an attacker. This bug requires immediate attention and potentially a restore to the last backup image of your server. Information on the bug can be found here: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-4221 We have been handling the issue per…
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Pingability Facelift
While I was kicking back camping in Yosemite Justin here has been ‘messing about’ with CSS on our Pingability web check and alert service. Bringing it from my 2003 design to something a little more contemporary. Thanks, Justin. — Pingability lets you monitor your websites pages, check that things are running OK, and alert you…
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66% off .org domain name registration anyone?
We use gandi.net internally for some of the domains we have. Gandi have given me a few ‘promo codes’ for 66% off .org domains.