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Community group discounts: RimuHosting launches its ‘being useful’ initiative
The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. Leo Rosten RimuHosting is an employee owned business. We have been helping customers with their websites and hosting needs since 2003. Our business is a collection of…
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VM hosting now available at NextDC in Sydney
We are happy to announce we are now offering VM hosting out of the NextDC facility in Sydney! Some highlights: Uptime Institute Tier III certification. N+1 power and cooling. Hot and cold aisles for peak cooling power efficiency. Cardboard- (and dust-) free data halls. Locked cabinets. Inert gas fire suppressant. Financially stable, publicly listed data…
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Letting 3rd parties update credit card details
Some of our customers pay for their servers using a 3rd party’s credit card (their boss’, partner’s or a generous friend’s). Every now and then those details need to get updated (new CC expiry dates, or a replacement card). You can now let 3rd parties set their credit card details on our site without…
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Jobs at RimuHosting!
RimuHosting is looking for experienced Linux sysadmins to provide support to our hosting customers as well as to help build and maintain our global hosting infrastructure.
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Two Factor Authentication
We have just added optional two factor authentication to the RimuHosting control panel. You can enable it at http://rimuhosting.com/cp/twofactor.jsp It uses Time-based One Time Password (TOTP) so you will need an application like Google Authenticator or Authy. To enable 2FA scan the QR code to your TOTP application then enter the 6 digit token your…
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Monitoring your server
Its always a good option to have monitoring, and there are a lot of options available. If you are interested in uptime and notifications, you can use a service like http://pingability.com If you are interested in making sure services are up and running, and have more time to spare there are a lot of amazing…
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Account authorization and password resets
The primary way we identify our customers is via the email addresses associated with your account. If you do not communicate with us using one of these listed accounts, it may delay or slow the work we do on your server until we can verify you are authorized to request work done on the server.…
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T-shirts are a coming…
T-shirts are great. They cover a good part of your torso. But not the arms. So your elbows get to breathe. We think it is so important for your bare elbows to touch your desk while you’re admin-ing your server that we’d like to give a few of our most precious customers a free t-shirt.
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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…
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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…