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Cloudkick add RimuHosting as a provider
Cloudkick have just added support for RimuHosting as a provider. Cloudkick help you mange and monitor your ‘cloud’ servers. They use provider APIs (like the RimuHosting server management API) to keep track of your cloud server list. Offer tools like reboots, ssh consoles, and – importantly – monitoring. Here is a quick tour. First up,…
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Using the RimuHosting API to integrate with Server Density
A few weeks back we released our RimuHosting server management API (which lets users programmatically do things like setup new servers, shut them down, resize their memory or disk and reboot them). Ivan here has been busy integrating our API into a few third party ‘cloud computing’ APIs. Like libcloud, jclouds and deltacloud. The third…
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EV SSL certificate sale
Our SSL cert provider is having a bit of a sale on EV SSL certificates. The ‘EV’ certs are the ones that (typically) create a green bar in your address bar with your actual business name. They require more proof of identity (e.g. company documents) than regular certificates. Our provider’s sale lasts till the end…
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RimuHosting’s Haiti earthquake relief appeal
RimuHosting has setup a special referral link http://rimuhosting.com/?r=haiti to raise funds for Haiti earthquake relief. For every server ordered after using that URL before the end of February RimuHosting will donate 20 NZD to Haiti earthquake relief. Since aid is needed in Haiti _right now_ RimuHosting has made an advance $500 contribution to the NZ…
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RimuHosting visit by Richard Stallman
Free and open source software are so important at RimuHosting. Our servers would be pretty useless without the Linux kernel and free and open source applications we install on them. We try to do our bit for ‘software freedom’ like http://blog.rimuhosting.com/2009/09/24/rimuhosting-does-software-freedom-day/ providing OSS develeoper discounts and sponsoring events like LCA2010 http://blog.rimuhosting.com/2009/12/08/rimuhosting-at-linuconf-2010/ But our efforts are…
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Be at Linux Conf in Wellington, or be square
RimuHosting: Proudly supporting LCA2010 Linux Conf down under will be in Wellington from Monday 18 January to Saturday 23 January 2010. This is right on our door-step (well an 8 hour drive down SH1 from Cambridge, at least). So there will be a few Rimu-ites heading down. And have signed up to be a sponsor…
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Plan pricing in NZD, USD, GBP and AUD
Historically all our server prices were denominated in US dollars. We have just updated our plans so that new orders are denominated in currency of the country where the server is located. i.e. NZ-based servers in NZD, Oz-based serves in AUD, and London-based servers in GBP. Typically customers ordering servers in those locations we live…
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Dallas networking improvements
This is a heads up about some networking improvements (at Dallas) we will be making over the weekend. In Dallas we take a network feed from our upstream providers. That feeds into our ‘core’ networking gear. And we distribute it from that core gear to the cabinets we operate in Dallas. The core gear is…
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RimuHosting launches NZ-based VPS hosting
I am happy to announce RimuHosting is now offering NZ-based VPS hosting. The plans are listed at http://rimuhosting.com/auckland-servers RimuHosting is an NZ company. But we have never hosted servers from NZ-before. Most of our customers (and therefore servers) are over in the US and the UK. So a couple of weeks back had our San…