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DNS amplification DoS attacks
If you are running a DNS server, then you need to check it is not being co-opted into ‘DNS amplification attacks’. Random nasty servers (typically part of virus created bot-nets) send your DNS server a short request but use a fake source IP address. Your DNS server then sends a (typically) long reply back to…
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Happy holidays 2012
Thank you to all our wonderful customers for your business in 2012. A number of our staff are taking a break over Christmas and the New Year to be with friends and family. And to take advantage of this beautiful kiwi summer. Sometimes downtime really is a good thing. So we will be operating with…
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Servers for Hurricane Sandy refugees
Has your hosting been affected by Hurricane Sandy? We would like to offer you free hosting. Order a server from http://launchtimevps.com In the order comments say “My server xyz.com is affected by Hurricane Sandy. May I please have the $50 credit.” We will verify that server has been ‘Sandy-ized’, apply the credit and setup your…
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Zonomi DNS TTL improvements
There have been a few updates to the Zonomi service (and RimuHosting’s DNS as well after the next code push there). These changes have been added to help address improve the service for a few ‘niche/advanced’ users. Time To Live (TTL) edits TTL values tell name servers how long they can cache DNS results before…
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SSH keys on new servers
You can now set your public ssh key(s) at http://rimuhosting.com/cp/sshkeys.jsp . These keys will automatically be added to new server setups. And the keys can be used when you enable a server’s console-over-vps feature. SSH keys are great when you want to avoid re-entering passwords every time you log into a server. The Ubuntu team…
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RimuHosting is hiring!
We are fortunate to have a lot of great customers. In fact we are lucky enough to have enough of you that we are actually getting pretty darned busy. So we are looking to add another sysadmin or two to help out. This position is for our Cambridge, NZ office. But there may be an…
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Up-sized VPS options in Australia
We are happy to announce that we have had some super fast servers land in Brisbane with a ton of memory. As a result we can now offer even faster servers with more memory for less money. Isn’t Moore’s law great? See: http://rimuhosting.com/order/vpspricing.jsp?dc_location=DCBRISBANE We recently spec-ed out, built and shipped a bunch of new Jaketown…
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SSD-backed VPS hosts
We are happy to announce the immediate availability of SSD-backed VPS hosts. These servers run the VPS images on a RAID array of SSDs. The SSDs increase the disk IO throughput and decrease disk IO latency (particularly on ‘random access’ activities, like database inserts/queries). You can order a new VPS (just select the SSD option…
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London-based Bakop server added; Brisbane coming…
We are happy to announce there is now a London-based Bakop server available. This is in addition to the Bakop server in Dallas. Plus we have one planned for Brisbane (hopefully coming on line next week…). You now have the choice of location for your backups. Great for people when choosing their disaster recover location.…
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RimuHosting taking over HostingDirect’s VPS operations
RimuHosting is taking over the operation of HostingDirects VPS hosting services. From Monday June 11 RimuHosting will be hosting the VPSs. The servers will remain at the HostingDirect data center (where RimuHosting has had a presence since 2009). RimuHosting will be taking over the billing and customer service for those users. Other HostingDirect customers (shared…