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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:

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 main network providers are Level(3) and Abovenet. And there is a also a premium quality mix of Internap/Level(3) bandwidth available on some servers. 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 host90.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 the 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-based 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 data center facts:

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. You can check the latency from your location by pinging 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. For a sample ping try host41.rimuhosting.com.

Order a Sydney-based VPS or an Brisbane-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.