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Picking Your Distro
We frequently get questions asking which distribution to choose. The short answer is – pick whatever distribution you’re currently using if it’s one that you like and are comfortable using. :) It’s not going to make a tremendous difference at the end of the day and the differences are mostly in the way you’ll manage…
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Whats using all my disk space up?
Often we get asked by customers ‘What is using up all my disk space on my VPS?’. Usually we track it down to log files not being rotated or email etc. Here are a few of the commands we use to do that.
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Using incron to autocommit changes in a folder
I found this excellent blog post giving a nice example of incron useage at http://andrew.mcmillan.net.nz/blog/using_incron_to_autoversion_a_directory Normally when I edit files in /etc, I am focused on achieving something now, and not on being able to undo it later. To this end I have written myself a script which will commit the contents of a directory…
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RimuHosting adds live chat
Today are launching a trial of ‘live chat‘ support. This gives our customers one more way to access us (in addition to email, IM, tickets and phone). We still expect the bulk of our support work to be done via emails or tickets. Since that let’s both parties keep a good written history of the…
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Cloudkick add RimuHosting as a provider
Cloudkick have just added support for RimuHosting as a provider. Cloudkick help you mange and monitor your ‘cloud’ servers. They use provider APIs (like the RimuHosting server management API) to keep track of your cloud server list. Offer tools like reboots, ssh consoles, and – importantly – monitoring. Here is a quick tour. First up,…
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Using the RimuHosting API to integrate with Server Density
A few weeks back we released our RimuHosting server management API (which lets users programmatically do things like setup new servers, shut them down, resize their memory or disk and reboot them). Ivan here has been busy integrating our API into a few third party ‘cloud computing’ APIs. Like libcloud, jclouds and deltacloud. The third…
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EV SSL certificate sale
Our SSL cert provider is having a bit of a sale on EV SSL certificates. The ‘EV’ certs are the ones that (typically) create a green bar in your address bar with your actual business name. They require more proof of identity (e.g. company documents) than regular certificates. Our provider’s sale lasts till the end…
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Glassfish Installation Script
We do a lot of Java hosting for our customers. As with any technology, there are a lot of different deployment scenarios to choose from. With Java we tend to see mostly Tomcat hosting because most folks don’t require a full fledged application server (and the associated memory costs that come along with it). JBoss…
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RimuHosting’s Haiti earthquake relief appeal
RimuHosting has setup a special referral link http://rimuhosting.com/?r=haiti to raise funds for Haiti earthquake relief. For every server ordered after using that URL before the end of February RimuHosting will donate 20 NZD to Haiti earthquake relief. Since aid is needed in Haiti _right now_ RimuHosting has made an advance $500 contribution to the NZ…
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rdiff-backup script using sshfs for larger backups
We have had a few customers who have much more data to back up, and taking a copy of that every day uses a LOT of disk space and can be time consuming. The answer is rdiff-backup . It does incremental backups whenever you run it, only backing up the difference from the initial complete…