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  • $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…

  • The Great T-Shirt Swap – Instructables

    Well, we got the first shirts in the door today, thanks to our great friends over at http://instructables.com Here is a picture of a few of the office staff (not all of them) located in Cambridge wearing them.

  • 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…

  • Silverstripe CMS on Standing Cloud webinar Tue Dec 13 1300 PST

    Join Standing Cloud and Peter from RimuHosting at Tue, Dec 13, 2011 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM PST for a webinar that demonstrates Standing Clouds one-click app deployment and management (to RimuHosting servers). We will be giving a demo using Silverstripe as our target app.  And the webinar will be followed by a Q&A session.…