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Our CentOS 9 Image works with the following to provide a working OpenVAS install.

Login to your CentOS 9 VPS & become the root user and run the following commands:

dnf upgrade -y
dnf -y install wget
dnf config-manager –set-enabled crb
dnf install epel-release -y
dnf update -y

Then reboot.

After reboot re-login to the shell command line as root and download & run the installer for the Atomic Repository, which is done with:

wget -q -O - https://updates.atomicorp.com/installers/atomic |  sh

This is an interactive process and you’ll need to accept the T&Cs etc for it to proceed and complete.

Once the above installs & commands are done, you can start the install of OpenVAS, via DNF:

dnf install gvm -y

This takes a while but once done you can start the configuration of OpenVAS with:

gvm-setup

This take a very long time, many hours (can be 6-10+ hours for us in Australia), just wait, it will complete & it has good error detection and retry/resync on failed downloads, so let it run. Maybe run it in a screen or other non-interruptable terminal login session eg: tmux.

At the end of ‘gvm-setup’ it’ll prompt you for your “admin” user’s password that you need to set.

After that it restarts itself and you’re ready to login to your VPS IP Address website (ie: https://VPS IP Address & accept the self-generated Cert) with the “admin” user’s password that you entered.

FYI and holler if you need help with your OpenVAS VPS at Network Presence.

Regards,
Richard.

’tis the season for multi-national companies to be raising their billing rates to Australians.

This time its our Sydney Data Centre, Equinix, increasing their costs to us by 5% from January, as is their contracted right.

As per our other posts about such cost rises, we’d like customers to consider buying more VPS resources (eg: more CPUs or more RAM or more diskspace, etc) via our website, to help fund these cost increases, while giving more resources to your own VPS.

Regards,
Richard.

A note that Microsoft and cPanel increase their licensing costs to us by 10% every year around this time.

But because we use Paypal Subscriptions in our web based ordering systems, we can’t pass those cost increases on to our customers.

We’ll be contacting these customers (Windows & cPanel VPS) asking them to consider adding more resources to their VPS (eg: more CPUs or more RAM or more diskspace, etc) to help fund these cost increases on our end, while getting some benefit for themselves being the extra resources for their VPS.

These various extra VPS resources products are listed in our Professional Services pages.

Thanks,
Richard.

Today something which we’ve planned against and operated to survive for nearly a decade occurred.

At 11am on a Wednesday an Internet link via fibre cable goes down, hard.

The linked post from our Operations site details it, but I want to emphasis that we’ve run and paid for this network setup to survive without customer impact an outage like this during business hours and we’re very pleased everything happened as expected when a fibre like this went down – our network automatically adapted and continued servicing our customers at that POP without missing a beat.

FYI and regards,
Richard.

We’ve updated our MikroTIk Router VPS image to their stable long-term support version 7.16

You can select this in our VPS Management pages for VPS reimage.

We’ve updated our MikroTIk Router VPS image to their stable long-term support version 6.49.13

You can select this in our VPS Management pages for VPS reimage.

We’ve updated the process of Windows based VPS (Windows 10 Pro or Windows Server 2019) ordering and provisioning. It still needs our manual attention, but that’s intentional so that there’s some checks on the orders for these types of VPS.

Ordering a Windows VPS via our Shop site usually takes place quickly on the day you order it, or if ordered out of hours, we’ll be in-touch the next day as the VPS is setup for you.

Regards,
Richard.

We’ve released an updated CentOS 9 templated OS image and it’s now available for all customers to Reimage/Reinstall their VPS at networkpresence.com.au

We’ve seen some customers with this issue, where after a reboot on a current version of cPanel, the MySQL server won’t start fully and keeps crashing with logs like:

2024-07-08T00:03:13Z UTC – mysqld got signal 11 ;
Most likely, you have hit a bug, but this error can also be caused by malfunctioning hardware.
BuildID[sha1]=539914406f129270c6bd39a48640d0f1eeecc1af
Thread pointer: 0x0
Attempting backtrace. You can use the following information to find out
where mysqld died. If you see no messages after this, something went
terribly wrong…
stack_bottom = 0 thread_stack 0x100000
/usr/sbin/mysqld(my_print_stacktrace(unsigned char const, unsigned long)+0x41) [0x213f031] /usr/sbin/mysqld(print_fatal_signal(int)+0x397) [0xffa557] /usr/sbin/mysqld(handle_fatal_signal+0xa5) [0xffa615] /lib64/libpthread.so.0(+0x12d20) [0x7fee37433d20] /usr/sbin/mysqld(Validate_files::check(__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator > > const&, __gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator > > const&, unsigned long)+0x909) [0x218ddb9] /usr/sbin/mysqld(std::thread::_State_impl > > const&, __gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator > > const&, unsigned long)>, __gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator const, std::vector, /lib64/libstdc++.so.6(+0xc2b23) [0x7fee361b4b23]
/lib64/libpthread.so.0(+0x81ca) [0x7fee374291ca]
/lib64/libc.so.6(clone+0x43) [0x7fee357bb8d3]
The manual page at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/crashing.html contains
information that should help you find out what is causing the crash.

We’ve been in-touch with cPanel about this and here’s the solution/fix:

On a terminal session as root to your cPanel VPS, run:

yum downgrade mysql-community-*

Then your MySQL server should restart and run ok.

This is a known bug in this version of MySQL and cPanel recommend you lock your MySQL server version at this release for a while with commands like:

dnf install python3-dnf-plugin-versionlock
yum versionlock mysql-community-*

FYI,
Richard.

We’ve released an Ubuntu 24.02 templated OS image and it’s now available for all customers to Reimage/Reinstall their VPS at networkpresence.com.au