RimuHosting Blog

Tag: VPS

  • Servers for Hurricane Sandy refugees

    Has your hosting been affected by Hurricane Sandy?  We would like to offer you free hosting. Order a server from http://launchtimevps.com In the order comments say “My server xyz.com is affected by Hurricane Sandy.  May I please have the $50 credit.” We will verify that server has been ‘Sandy-ized’, apply the credit and setup your…

  • SSH keys on new servers

    You can now set your public ssh key(s) at http://rimuhosting.com/cp/sshkeys.jsp .  These keys will automatically be added to new server setups.  And the keys can be used when you enable a server’s console-over-vps feature. SSH keys are great when you want to avoid re-entering passwords every time you log into a server.  The Ubuntu team…

  • 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…

  • SSD-backed VPS hosts

    We are happy to announce the immediate availability of SSD-backed VPS hosts. These servers run the VPS images on a RAID array of SSDs. The SSDs increase the disk IO throughput and decrease disk IO latency (particularly on ‘random access’ activities, like database inserts/queries). You can order a new VPS (just select the SSD option…

  • May 2012 RimuHosting newsletter

    RimuHosting server specials and news Intel released their new dual processor Sandy Bridge platform, ‘the fastest server CPU you can get in a reasonably priced server’.  And of course we are now making those available to our customers.  Pricing from $369.00/m. Intel have been busy.  They also released (and we are now offering) their new…

  • Mysql Master/Master Replication & File sync for quick easy scaling or load balance

    A lot of our customers often need a quick easy way to scale up without moving to a new host or changing IP, or even just want an overseas copy of their site, so this is a brief tutorial on how to duplicate your server, and have the database and files replicate between the 2…

  • Run your own kernel with PV-Grub

    We have just added PV-Grub capability to our VPS offerings. PV-Grub lets you run a custom kernel on your server.  Rimuhosting is all about flexibility and PV-Grub is one feature that will give our customers a lot of different options.  Custom modules, latest kernel, old kernel, kernel development, lots of good stuff. We continue to…

  • Using swap within a VPS

    In a virtual environment, disk io can be about the most expensive operation there is. And swap (virtual memory) depends on that heavily. By default we configure a small swap partition for each VPS server so conditions where memory is exhausted can be detected more consistently,

  • 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…

  • Centos 6 released for VPS usage @ Rimuhosting

    We now have Centos 6 available for our new and existing customers to install if needed. There appear to be no major differences other than newer versions of software, and no problems installing it or gotchas. You can read the release here http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.0 If you already have an older VPS and want to reinstall ,