Author: Peter Bryant

  • May 2012 RimuHosting newsletter

    RimuHosting server specials and news Intel released their new dual processor Sandy Bridge platform, ‘the fastest server CPU you can get in a reasonably priced server’.  And of course we are now making those available to our customers.  Pricing from $369.00/m. Intel have been busy.  They also released (and we are now offering) their new…

  • Call for ‘startups start here’ stories

    For the last 9 years we have been helping start ups launch and run their services.  It is great to have a job where we get to help customers onto their path to Internet fame and glory. We are now looking to tell the stories of some of these start ups.  If you have bootstrapped…

  • $100/m off selected dual proc Xeons!

    We have a very limited stock of some great dual processor Xeons available. For a limited time and while stocks last we are offering a $100/m discount on these servers. 2 x Intel Xeon Quad Core 2006 Clovertown or Harpertown CPU 1.6GHz+ (specific model would depend on available stock) Can take 4-24GB of memory. RAID…

  • T-shirt swap

    There is only one thing cooler than a cool customer.  Its a cool customer with their own website on their tshirt.  We’d love to wear one.  So if you have one we’ll swap you one of yours for one of ours (http://blog.rimuhosting.com/2012/02/21/bare-elbows/). Contact us at support to arrange the exchange!  To get our T-shirt you…

  • Make a delightful day for your users

    Users will forget what you say.  Users will forget what you do.  Users will remember how they feel. So design a beautiful day for your customers.  Make it a memorable day. Many businesses present a boring, me-too face.  Some start-ups go overboard and swamp a useful app with delightful funkiness.  Neither is likely to create…

  • Per minute billing

    We have recently had a couple of questions/comments about how/whether we do per- minute/hour/day/month billing. Our goal is to only charge you for the minutes you use on a server. When you first get a server we pro-rate the service fee for the current calendar month, create an invoice and charge your credit card before…

  • Success through kick ass users

    Kathy Sierra presented at Webstock 2012.  And her talk compelled me to start thinking deeply about how I go about writing apps and helping users. The best indicator of success is when, after using your app (or service or company), the user thinks ‘I’m awesome’.  NOT: the product or company or service is awesome. I…

  • T-shirts are a coming…

    T-shirts are great.  They cover a good part of your torso.  But not the arms.  So your elbows get to breathe. We think it is so important for your bare elbows to touch your desk while you’re admin-ing your server that we’d like to give a few of our most precious customers a free t-shirt.

  • Introducing 2 Parts Magic

    I am happy to announce the launch of a new RimuHosting service: 2 Parts Magic web app development services 2 Parts Magic is team of web programmers.  Based here in the Cambridge RimuHosting offices.  They write browser based web applications for start-ups and successful Internet-based businesses.  So you can use their services to implement your…

  • December 2011 Newsletter

    Welcome to the latest RimuHosting newsletter. We will try to keep you posted on some of the our key news since the last newsletter back in April (http://blog.rimuhosting.com/2011/04/19/newsletter-2011-04/) Launching 2 Parts Magic software development services RimuHosting’s latest venture is a team of web application developers-for-hire. 2 Parts Magic (http://2partsmagic.com) builds made-to-order web application software.  So…