Author: Peter Bryant

  • Free memory upgrade anyone?

    Want some more memory on your RimuHosting VPS? Guess what? It is a RimuHosting free memory upgrade day! Here is how it works…

  • 5 chances to get free EnvelopeHD hosting

    Do you do support or sales support via email? Do you need to have 2 or more people involved? Looking for a tool to help you better manage your support? Well, we’re looking for some early adopters to test drive our EnvelopeHD email-centric help desk product. We want to select and setup 5 early adopters…

  • Announcing Envelope: the email-centric help desk

    At RimuHosting we do a lot of support. Thousands of emails a month. And we have a good sized crew of sysadmins handling those requests. To help us better manage how we respond to our customer emails our software developers created a software application which we call Envelope. Envelope hooks up to our IMAP email…

  • Newegg shipping fail

    At RimuHosting we’re big consumers of hard drives.  Seems live every couple of weeks we are getting a couple of dozen ‘extra’ drives.  (And note that when we buy servers we will typcally get them with two drives). We get most of our ‘extra’ drives from Newegg. Lately we have been noticing some pretty high…

  • DNS import script project. Any takers?

    A bit of a cheeky request… I’m looking for something that will import a BIND zone file in our name servers. Anyone interested in having a crack at that? I’m imagining something like a bash/perl/ruby/python script that parses a BIND zone file then uses our DNS api per http://rimuhosting.com/dns/dyndns.jsp to pop the values into our…

  • Fun with lawyers, politicians and copyright

    Like a lot of software developers I take an interest in copyright issues.  I read the odd article, watch Linus and Richard debate GPL3, and was even once motivated enough to make a submission on another recent NZ copyright bill. The New Zealand government has a bill on the table looking at file sharing.  One…

  • RimuHosting adds live chat

    Today are launching a trial of ‘live chat‘ support.  This gives our customers one more way to access us (in addition to email, IM, tickets and phone). We still expect the bulk of our support work to be done via emails or tickets.  Since that let’s both parties keep a good written history of the…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…