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  • Launchtime twitter competition

    Know an open source developer that is looking to launch their application?  Help them out by nominating them in our Launchtime VPS twitter competition. Yesterday we launchtimevps.com , the VPS-focused RimuHosting website.  http://blog.rimuhosting.com/2010/12/16/introducing-launchtime-ri-mu/ Today we would like to help some open source software developers launch their own website.  Competition-style for a bit of fun. Up…

  • Introducing Launchtime VPS hosting

    We are uber-happy to announce the 2010 UI RimuHosting website refresh.  And it is not all merely fresh fonts, headers, footers and colors.  We have a new ordering system to make it quicker and easier to get a new server up and running.  Simplified navigation.  A new domain.  And setup-as-part-of-the-order-process. launchtimevps.com domain: First up there…

  • Forwarding email from one host to a new after migration

    It seems a lot of people will move to a new server and want all the old email stuck in /var/mail – its not as easy as it seems to get the email migrated according to google, so I thought i would document it. If you have IMAP available, simply add the new account and…

  • Introducing bakop

    Introducing http://bakop.com, the offsite FTP backup service We have ‘broken out’ the popular RimuHosting-customer-only backupspace service into a standalone and separately branded service.  That anyone can sign up for and use. You get to use however much space you need.  No file quotas.  The setup continues to use the linux-foo goodness that enables sshfs, sftp,…

  • 66% off .org domain name registration anyone?

    We use gandi.net internally for some of the domains we have.  Gandi have given me a few ‘promo codes’ for 66% off .org domains.

  • Did you know we have a DNS API?

    Seems some cool features get lost, and only staff know about them rather than the customers. I thought I’d point out to people we have an API for our DNS. This can be used by scripts for adding domains to your own VPS using PHP curl, or similar other things. Another excellent use is fail…

  • 5 chances to get free EnvelopeHD hosting

    Do you do support or sales support via email? Do you need to have 2 or more people involved? Looking for a tool to help you better manage your support? Well, we’re looking for some early adopters to test drive our EnvelopeHD email-centric help desk product. We want to select and setup 5 early adopters…

  • Announcing Envelope: the email-centric help desk

    At RimuHosting we do a lot of support. Thousands of emails a month. And we have a good sized crew of sysadmins handling those requests. To help us better manage how we respond to our customer emails our software developers created a software application which we call Envelope. Envelope hooks up to our IMAP email…

  • Newegg shipping fail

    At RimuHosting we’re big consumers of hard drives.  Seems live every couple of weeks we are getting a couple of dozen ‘extra’ drives.  (And note that when we buy servers we will typcally get them with two drives). We get most of our ‘extra’ drives from Newegg. Lately we have been noticing some pretty high…

  • Failover – What happens when your VPS goes down?

    A lot of customers are realizing that having 1 single VPS is great, but if for some reason it goes down and crashes, customers are left wondering what happened. Whilst rimuhosting monitor long term excessive CPU useage, it might be an hour before we realize a VPS has had an OOM error (out of memory)…