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RimuHosting turns on redundant PSU and redundant power feed options
We are happy to announce that we now able to offer dedicated servers with redundant power supplies as well as servers on redundant (A+B) power feeds. The redundant power supply means that your server gets two power connections. Each drawing about 50% of the servers power. If one PSU fails then the other takes over.
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Wildcard DNS queries added to our DNS API
We are updating our DNS API (Zonomi and RimuHosting) to support a name/host argument of **.example.com (where example.com is your DNS zone). This will find any DNS records ending with example.com. This could be used, for example, in providing your own UI from end to our name servers. Or for setting up slave DNS servers.…
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10 August Dallas outage report
We posted a report on the Dallas power outage on 10 August CST. We are happy to update that report or contribute details here if you had any comments or requests. [Updated the notice at Sun 14@1008 UTC to include the data center outage report]
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Sandy Bridge servers in stock; get one quick
Remember back a couple of years and Pentium 4 CPUs were nearly hitting 4Ghz? Then along came the new Core 2 Duos and we were back to a mere 2Ghz (albeit with these new ‘cores’). Intel has been pushing performance via efficiency (e.g. multiple cores) not brute Ghz. But that has always hampered ‘straight-line’ performance.…
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$50 hosting credit for server migration
I’d like to offer a USD 50 hosting credit to anyone ordering a new server with us where that server is currently hosted elsewhere. Get started now, order a fast VPS with a ton of memory at a pretty decent price using our Launchtime ordering system. Why order a server with RimuHosting? We’re run by…
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Previewing 25mail.st: managed email hosting service
Mail server issues are one of the most frequent mail server requests we get here at RimuHosting. Troubleshooting existing configurations. Setting up ‘basic’ mail servers for customers. Setting up fancy ‘do everything’ mail servers for customers. Answering queries about why ‘x’ is flagged as SPAM (or not). Advising on things like SPF and DKIM. Blacklists…
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Christchurch Earthquake Assistance
Yesterday Christchurch was hit by a devastating earthquake. Our thoughts go out to family and friends and everyone down there. RimuHosting is nestled safe in Cambridge far away from the earthquake. We feel far removed and frankly a little frustrated at our inability to do much to help our fellow kiwis. What we do have,…
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Improved VPS reboot/powercycles
Customers have been able to restart their VPSs (or powercycle them) from the RimuHosting control panel. We have updated and ajaxified the reboot functionality to provide better feedback on the process and improve the user experience. Check it out the next time you need a VPS restart.
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Run your own VPS backups
We have just added a VPS snapshot/backup page to the RimuHosting control panel. By default for each VPS we run a weekly backup. This creates a snapshot of your VPS disk image. Which you can then restore to (e.g. to revert to an earlier time) or mount along with your current file system (e.g. to…