Well Connected Data Centers

RimuHosting uses data centers in multiple countries.  This lets you host with a server closest to you or your users.  We currently use data centers in the following locations:

• Dallas, Texas
• London, England
• Australia
• Auckland, New Zealand

These locations let you choose a server nearest your US, European or Australasian users.

Each data center has redundant UPS systems, generator backup, closed circuit monitoring, card key access, 24-hour guards and redundant a/c systems.  Rest assured your hardware is being well taken care of.

• Lots of low latency bandwidth.  Typically you can 'ping' other US servers in an incredibly fast 20ms or less.
• Multiple, Gigabit Connections to the Internet.  So even multi-megabyte files can be downloaded in seconds.
• 24x7 Server Monitoring.  And our sysadmins are paged if anything is wrong.  It's "peace of mind" hosting.
• UPS Power

Dallas Data Center

The Dallas-based data center we use, colo4dallas, provides a reliable, fast and affordable mix of BGP routed bandwidth. The data center run a Cisco networking environment. And is staffed 24x7 by technicians who perform all our remote hands work (e.g. changing drives, memory or swapping servers).

For a sample ping try host112.rimuhosting.com.

The servers we purchase and colocate at the Dallas data center are the latest and greatest our money can buy, so we are able to offer customers great pricing on extra memory and disk space.

If you are not sure which data center to go with then we recommend you setup your VPS or dedicated server at this data center. We host most of our customers at this facility.

Order a Dallas-based VPS, a
semi-dedicated VPS
or a Dallas-based dedicated server.

London Data Center

The UK-based data center
we use is located in Maidenhead (just outside of London). It operates a Cisco and Extreme Networks powered network. It has access to a 20Gbit network including Level(3) and Tiscali as carriers. The data center is manned 24x7, and has diesel generator UPSs.

For a sample ping try host335.rimuhosting.com.

We recommend our London data center if most of your users are in Europe and low latency is critical to you.

Order a London-based VPS or London-based Dedicated Server.

Australian Data Centers

RimuHosting provide both VPS and dedicated servers from the Australian data centers we use.

We have some servers that we use for VPS hosting colocated in the Global Switch data center. This location is ideal when you need low latency to users in Australia, New Zealand or the western pacific rim Far East countries. Network costs are quite high in Australia so the data transfer allowance included in the price is lower (at 6GB/month) than on other (e.g. Dallas or London) servers.

Because we are colocating our own hardware here we can use very powerful servers. The VPS plans here run on one of our fast servers (at the time of writing, a server with two quad core Xeon CPUs) with a heap of memory (12GB) and lots of disk space (four 750GB disks).

Some facts about the Sydney datacenter:

• Data Center Location: Global Switch Data Center, Harris Street, Ultimo, Sydney
• Data Center Space: 41,575m2 of gross building space
• Rack Space: 2 Floors ~1000 Racks
• Minimum N+1 Redundancy on Power Supply
• Diverse A&B Power Supply through UPS
• On-site diesel tanks (360,000 litres) support minimum of 24 hours at full capacity (2 hour contract for further fuel)
• Temperature maintained at 22C (+/- 2C)
• Aspiratory Analogue Addressable Fire Detection System
• Access Control Using Proximity Card Readers
• Multiple CCTV Cameras (interior and exterior)
• Barrier Controlled Vehicle Access
• Data Transit: Optus, Verizon, Asia Netcomm, Pacific Internet, Pipe Networks
• Data Center Staff not on site, but just 15 minutes away
• Uses Cisco networking equipment
• There are multiple inter-continental internet cables plugged into Sydney including the Southern cross cable (US and NZ), Pac Rim West (Korea, Japan) and Tasman (NZ)
• Sample ping times (at time of writing): 30ms ping to NZ, 120ms to Japan, 160ms east coast US.

For a sample ping try host426.rimuhosting.com.

We also provide dedicated servers in Australia from a Brisbane-based data center.  The data center has two Gigabit ethernet links to SingTEL/Optus, a Cisco-based network core, and on-site staff 24x7 for rapid response to hardware emergencies.

If you or your customers are located in Australia, Asia or New Zealand then one of our Brisbane-based VPSs is a good choice. Bandwidth in this part of the world is not cheap, so data transfer allowances on these servers are lower than at the other data centers we use.

Some facts about the Brisbane datacenter:

• has multiple carrier-grade connections to various Australian network providers including SingTel Optus, AAPT and UECOMM for excellent redundancy
• has Gigabit Ethernet over copper and ATM throughout our internal infrastructure and Gigabit Ethernet optical fibre uplinks to all external carriers.
• 24 hour 7 day Emergency support.
• 24 hour 7 day On Site Security.
• N+1 UPS Power Protected Servers.
• N+1 Caterpiller Generator Backup Power.
• N+1 feeds from state power grid.

For a sample ping to Brisbane try host905.rimuhosting.com.

Order a Sydney-based VPS or an Brisbane-based dedicated server.

Auckland-based Data Center

Our NZ-based hosting plans are offered out a data center in Auckland, New Zealand.

Some facts about the Auckland data center:

• Online UPS system providing constant and regulated power to the cabinets
• Backup generator in case of extended power failure
• Multiple GigE redundant Internet connections (Vector and Telecom)
• Redundant switching and routing services at all critical entry and exit points on the network
• Sample host to ping (for latency to your location): host851.rimuhosting.com
• Sample download url.

Order an Auckland, New Zealand-based VPS or an Auckland, New Zealand-based dedicated server.

Choose VPS By Data Center

We do most of our VPS setups at the Dallas data center.  We think this data center offers a great mix of performance (with our most powerful host servers), reliability (with its premium network), and pricing (since we do so many setups there, economies of scale work in our favor).

We also offer VPS hosting from a few other data center locations.  Choose one of these options if you need a higher data transfer allowance than what we can offer in the Dallas data center. Or if your users are near one of these locations and every millisecond of network latency is critical.

	Pricing From	Memory/$	CPU Power	Data Transfer Allowance
Dallas VPS	19.95 USD
London VPS	20.00 GBP
Australian VPS	30.00 AUD

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