RimuHosting Blog

Tag: Hosting

  • Announcing a new partnership: RimuHosting acquires NetValue’s hosting operations

    On Monday, 2 October 2023, a significant partnership is forged as RimuHosting officially takes over the NetValue Hosting operations. This collaboration marks the beginning of a new chapter for both companies, ensuring enhanced and comprehensive hosting services for all our wonderful clients. Hosting Operations: RimuHosting is now at the helm of NetValue Hosting services, including…

  • Introducing multi-user access for your RimuHosting account

    We’ve heard your requests for a way to allow multiple team members to manage your RimuHosting services without sharing login credentials. Today, we’re excited to introduce the first version of this much-anticipated feature. Why Multi-User Access? Imagine you’re a business owner who initially set up the RimuHosting account. Now, you want to delegate day-to-day operations…

  • Zero-effort WordPress host migrations

    Need to get your WordPress from one host to another? It can be a lot easier than you think. This blog post walks you through the steps to migrate your WordPress website from one host to another. You’ve been with your current host for a while. But perhaps their price is starting to feel a…

  • Worried about privacy on public meeting apps? Try Big Blue Button

    Recently its come to light that Zoom were keeping video footage of meetings in their T&C. The Software Freedom Conservency calls on its members to eschew Zoom and instead use Open Source (and self-hosted) alternatives. If you are a company and want something a little more secure, that works easily with a nice web interface,…

  • Case study: Nextcloud to the rescue for unhappy tradies using Office365

    Providing effective IT solutions to franchisees is crucial for optimizing operations and streamlining business processes. In this case study, we explore how Paul, an IT support specialist at a master franchisor, successfully implemented a self-hosted alternative to Office 365 using Nextcloud on a RimuHosting VM. By doing so, he enabled franchisees, primarily tradespeople such as…

  • Adding VM GPU options

    We are excited to announce that we will be adding GPU options (e.g. NVIDIA A10 and A6000 GPUs) to our virtual machine offerings. With the addition of a GPU, you will have access to specialized software packages that can take advantage of GPU acceleration, including: These software packages can be used to train deep learning…

  • Dedicated Bakop storage server instances

    We had been running a Bakop storage server in most of the data centers in which we operate. We are just completing a project to upgrade the Bakop service stack software to the most recent versions. As part of this project we switched to using our RimuHosting API. The service now automatically spins up a…

  • DNS Aliases for bare/root/apex domains on Zomomi and RimuHosting DNS

    Zonomi and – very shortly – RimuHosting have been updated to permit ALIAS records for root/bare/apex domains. Background. Many web services – eg. Azure, AWS, or our own Woop! Host wordpress hosting service – make use of CNAMEs. They let you point a domain like www.example.com to an alias like site-1234.woop.host. This lets the service…

  • VM backup and download

    VM backup and download

    The following code snippet uses our https://github.com/pbkwee/s2i project to let you create a backup image of a Linux server, encrypt it, and then make it available for download (or transfer it directly to a remote server). s2i requires PHP, and can make use of PHP’s built in HTTP server. You will need sufficient disk space…

  • Woop! WordPress hosting launch

    Today we launch our Woop! WordPress hosting service. We are pretty excited about this. Many of our RimuHosting customers run WordPress on the VMs they host with us. That makes sense since 30% of the world’s sites run on WordPress. For over a decade we have been working with these customers to keep their WordPress…