RimuHosting
Posted by mop Mon, 28 Jun 2004 01:26:00 GMT
In-Touch now has a bit of virtual space at RimuHosting. The company is based in New Zealand, but our server is located in Dallas TX. Rimu is unique in that they provide Virtual Private Servers (VPL) using User Mode Linux and a variety of Linux distros, including Debian.
We’re currently on a $40USD/month plan that provides a VPS with 128MB of RAM, 4GB of disk space, and up to 60GB of traffic. I’m guessing the hardware is a dual Xeon running at 2.8GHz. So far rimu.intouch.ca is just used to host the In-Touch blogs, but I may also use it for other In-Touch and customer services. At the very least, I’d like to learn something about UML services.
Some stats from rimu.intouch.ca:
tsai:/home/mpierson# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : User Mode Linux model name : UML mode : skas host : Linux host32.rimuhosting.com 2.6.6 #3 SMP Thu Jun 10 01:10:47 UTC 2004 i686 bogomips : 2510.02
tsai:/home/mpierson# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 125532 95932 29600 0 7896 64668 -/+ buffers/cache: 23368 102164 Swap: 98296 0 98296
tsai:/home/mpierson# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/ubd0 4128448 452448 3466288 12% / tmpfs 62764 0 62764 0% /dev/shm
The only gotcha I’ve encountered so far is the incompatibility between UML and the GNU-TLS libraries in Debian sid. I orderd the VPS with Debian woody and one of the Rimu admins had to rescue our VPS after a "apt-get dist-upgrade" to sid failed. A few dpkg-divert additions were required for /lib/tls/*, but now rimu is happily running sid.
