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  • 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.…

  • Easy application hosting using StandingCloud and RimuHosting

    Imagine being able to configure a server, pre-setup and ready to run your favorite webapp, with a push of a button.  Need a bug tracking system?  Just hit a button, and wait a minute, then log into your own Bugzilla app.  No sysadmin skills required.  No wondering about best practices or security upgrades. StandingCloud are…

  • VPS-on-dedicated server hosting v2.0

    Today RimuHosting introduce our version 2.0 of our VPS-on-dedicated server hosting.  With this upgrade you get: Instant dedicated server setups. Great discounts on selected dedicated servers (starting at $120/m). The power of dedicated servers with the convenience of cloud virtualization. Dedicated server hosting billed by the minute or hour or day or month. VPS-on-dedicated-server hosting…

  • Hurricane Irene approaching New York

    As you may be aware there is a hurricane approaching New York. We have posted an operations notice https://rimuhosting.com/maintenance.jsp?server_maint_oid=597636491 Now may be a good time for customers (especially NY-based ones) to take a moment to check their backup and recovery procedures.  And ensure you are well prepared for any resulting incidents. Things to consider: Always know…

  • RimuHosting turns on redundant PSU and redundant power feed options

    We are happy to announce that we now able to offer dedicated servers with redundant power supplies as well as servers on redundant (A+B) power feeds. The redundant power supply means that your server gets two power connections.  Each drawing about 50% of the servers power.  If one PSU fails then the other takes over.

  • Wildcard DNS queries added to our DNS API

    We are updating our DNS API (Zonomi and RimuHosting) to support a name/host argument of **.example.com (where example.com is your DNS zone).  This will find any DNS records ending with example.com. This could be used, for example, in providing your own UI from end to our name servers.  Or for setting up slave DNS servers.…

  • 10 August Dallas outage report

    We posted a report on the Dallas power outage on 10 August CST. We are happy to update that report or contribute details here if you had any comments or requests. [Updated the notice at Sun 14@1008 UTC to include the data center outage report]

  • HOWTO videos for Rimuhosting Control Panel on youtube

    Sometimes explaining how to do something in the control panel can be fairly involved, and often confusing for people new to VPS or Rimuhosting. We have a fairly involved control panel that can do a lot of tasks, and it saves you a lot of time if you can do these things yourself in your…

  • Easy IP failover (Debian squeeze)

    Say you have a bunch of servers on a fast private network, running a busy web site. And you need a gateway server so you can reach those from the outside world. You might run a proxy on a gateway server to expose that. However there could be a problem accessing your site if that…