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Tag: Migration

  • Dallas network upgrade

    Dallas is our busiest location.  We have many, many cabinets there filled with wonderfully shiny servers (all black, as befits our Kiwi origins).  That setup has grown somewhat organically since 2005.  Our core networking wiring was starting to be a little scary.  And network capacity (ports and bandwidth was staring to be an issue). So…

  • Sync live sites to in-house dev servers

    One of our customer found it tedious to sync his live websites to his dev servers, it involved using FTP (since he had no version control) as well as the database. The files were over 2GB by themselves, so it could be a time consuming task. As a result he asked us for a solution,…

  • Migrating email between IMAP accounts

    Often when people switch servers, or move to new providers, transferring email can be problematic. If you are using POP3, the email is already on your personal computer, however if you are using IMAP then you are stuck trying to add a second account and drag and drop for each user, or similar. Never fear,there…

  • Up-sized VPS options in Australia

    We are happy to announce that we have had some super fast servers land in Brisbane with a ton of memory.  As a result we can now offer even faster servers with more memory for less money.  Isn’t Moore’s law great? See: http://rimuhosting.com/order/vpspricing.jsp?dc_location=DCBRISBANE We recently spec-ed out, built and shipped a bunch of new Jaketown…

  • RimuHosting taking over HostingDirect’s VPS operations

    RimuHosting is taking over the operation of HostingDirects VPS hosting services.  From Monday June 11 RimuHosting will be hosting the VPSs.  The servers will remain at the HostingDirect data center (where RimuHosting has had a presence since 2009).  RimuHosting will be taking over the billing and customer service for those users. Other HostingDirect customers (shared…

  • Distrubution release support (CentOS4/Debian 5)

    Linux distributions keep moving forwards, and as they progress older releases stop receiving security patches or updates. As part of our commitment to maintaining reliable and safe services, we would like to highlight the following announcements… CentOS-4 End Of Life The CentOS-4 distribution (current version 4.9) will be at End of Life on February 29,…

  • $50 hosting credit for server migration

    I’d like to offer a USD 50 hosting credit to anyone ordering a new server with us where that server is currently hosted elsewhere. Get started now, order a fast VPS with a ton of memory at a pretty decent price using our Launchtime ordering system. Why order a server with RimuHosting?  We’re run by…

  • Migrating VPS with virtualmin – Multiple DNS changes

    We have had a customer move from one host to a new one with Virtualmin, this is usually ok, except in this case he had DNS hosted on his own VPS, most of it pointing to his old IP address. The task was to update all DNS records on his VPS without manually clicking each…

  • Debian v6.0 (Squeeze) released

    Debian is one of our most popular distros.  Being very well suited for servers.  Debian 6.0 (aka squeeze) is now released.  It is a good option for a stable distro, with a good support life for package updates.  And right now it has a great, fresh set of new server-side app versions. Squeeze is available…

  • Tomcat 7 released, installer updated

    Tomcat is one the most popular Java servlet/JSP containers. Tomcat 6 has been out since 2006 and the Tomcat team has just announced the first stable release of Tomcat 7. At the time of writing version 7.06 is the latest stable release. Tomcat 7 implements the Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2 and EL 2.2 specifications. Along…