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WordCamp 2011 – Wellington
I (Liz) was lucky enough to go to Wellington on the weekend, and catch up with the great people running New Zealand Wordcamp. Since we have a lot of WordPress users and they are often requiring our help I like to keep up with who is doing what and how. I was originally going to…
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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…
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Data transfer reporting page (new RimuHosting control panel feature)
We have added a new data transfer reporting page. It show data transfer usage for each server for the last 50-odd days. With a summary for this and last month. At the moment this page only shows useful information for your Dallas-based VPS and dedicated servers. Our networking setup in Dallas permits us to watch…
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Introducing Launchtime tailored pricing plans
RimuHosting is proud to introduce the Launchtime tailored pricing algorithm. This algorithm is an alternative to ‘fixed’ pricing plans. And it will be a key tool for us to provide more affordable, fairer and more flexible pricing. Traditional hosting ‘fixed’ pricing plans offer a set of plans to choose from. Sometimes (but not always) with…
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Resolving ‘My website is slow’.
We recently had a customer whose website was taking a long time to load. When we checked it was loading fine. And we could not really find any issue with load on the server. Then we used the excellent firebug plugin for firefox to check what elements (css, js, imgs) the site was loading. And…
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London special, two months free hosting!
** Update: this offer is officially closed. If you are looking for cheap dedicated server options ask us about our Dallas based Core2Duo plans. We recently had a few unusual servers released to us. These powerful chassis are in an interesting fixed configuration, with 2xDual quad core E5410 Xeon CPUs, 24G RAM, and with 2x750G…
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Tomcat 7 released, installer updated
Tomcat is one the most popular Java servlet/JSP containers. Tomcat 6 has been out since 2006 and the Tomcat team has just announced the first stable release of Tomcat 7. At the time of writing version 7.06 is the latest stable release. Tomcat 7 implements the Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2 and EL 2.2 specifications. Along…
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Setting up Monit + with tomcat
We get asked a lot by customers to install and setup monit. Its not an overly hard task, in fact its pretty darned easy. Monit is brilliant for monitoring and restarting services when they are down, it can alert you or just restart after 5 failed connects/attempts. It handles everything from disk space, to memory,…
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Happy holidays 2010
Thank you to all our wonderful customers for your business in 2010. We have had a great time setting up servers and helping out with so many varied and interesting environments. And helping our customers launch some cool websites. A number of our staff are taking a break over Christmas and the New Year to…