Author: Peter Bryant

  • 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…

  • RimuHosting December 2009 newsletter

    This post is a copy of the newsletter just sent out to customers. News in brief We are now offering hosting based out of Auckland, New Zealand. http://blog.rimuhosting.com/2009/11/20/rimuhosting-launches-nz-based-vps-hosting/ In November we launched the RimuHosting cloud server management API. Create servers, shut them down, reboot them, fetch a server status. We have written wrappers/drivers for libcloud,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Twitter competition: Win $100 worth of RimuHosting hosting credits

    For a bit of fun RimuHosting is giving away a $100 VPS hosting credit.  For example, that is 5 months’ worth of MiroVPS1 hosting  for your  own website! To enter just re-tweet this message: RT: @rimuhosting is giving away $100 worth of VPS hosting credits. Visit http://tinyurl.com/twittercredits for more info! Click for an easy retweet…

  • RimuHosting takes over the operation of HostingDirect’s VPSs

    Today RimuHosting has entered into an agreement to take over the operation of HostingDirect’s VPSs and their billing. Ben Simpson of Hosting Direct emailed some of his VPS customers today saying: Morgan from Hosting Direct will be leaving the team on the 12th of November 2009, he was the one who created the VPS infrastructure…

  • Announcing the RimuHosting REST-ful API

    Announcing the RimuHosting API The RimuHosting API is an programmable interface to manage some of RimuHosting services. It lets you do things like setup new VPSs, add memory or disk to existing VPSs, check your data transfer usage, grab host server load stats, reboot servers, and most other actions that until now you could only…