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  • Intel Dual Sandybridge servers avilable

    We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of powerful new dual processor servers running Intel Sandybridge E5-2620 or E5-2630 CPUs. These impressive machines are built on the popular Supermicro platforms using the X9DR-f motherboard This new platform will enhance any large scale dedicated or virtualized deployments with access to 24 hyperthreaded cores and support…

  • Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin

    We are delighted to offer the latest release of Ubuntu Server, codenamed Precise Pangolin. That is available as an reinstall option or for order on all our VPS and dedicated server ordering pages.

  • Keeping your hosting panel updated

    From time to time hosting control panels (Such as Plesk) get updated by their creators. Those updates may often include patches to critical vulnerabilities, so its a good idea to keep track of those. We try to keep our customers informed. One example is a recent notification from Parallels affecting some older versions of Plesk.…

  • Wordcamp New Zealand – Scaling Servers

     On the 22nd of April, I (Liz) was lucky enough to be able to speak on scaling WordPress and servers at the New Zealand WordCamp. The people there were great, and i ended up meeting and talking to many fascinating people about all sorts of code, servers, set ups among other things. I was a…

  • Run your own kernel with PV-Grub

    We have just added PV-Grub capability to our VPS offerings. PV-Grub lets you run a custom kernel on your server.  Rimuhosting is all about flexibility and PV-Grub is one feature that will give our customers a lot of different options.  Custom modules, latest kernel, old kernel, kernel development, lots of good stuff. We continue to…

  • WordPress mass update script 3.3.2

    This script will search /var/www (changeable in a variable) for any wordpress installs and make sure its upgraded to the latest version. It will run a backup to /root/wp_upgrade/ of all files and database before doing anything with the site in case of major catastrophe (make sure you have spare disk space if your sites…

  • $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…

  • JBoss AS 7.1 install script

    JBoss Application Server (or JBoss AS) is an open-source Java EE-based application server. It has been optimized for multiples cores, it has a very fast startup time and a great low memory consumption. We have created a new version of the jboss install script. Jboss 7 changed a lot the way it is configured, that…

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