Network Presence Blog

We’re emailing our cPanel VPS customers who haven’t upgraded to the latest Linux and cPanel software, given cPanel’s end of life for older Linux versions is coming up in July 2024.

We’ve helped many customers upgrade and migrate their cPanel VPS to the latest Linux and WHM/cPanel software through our cPanel Backup and Upgrade product and service – where we provide a new latest software cPanel VPS and migrate your cPanel Accounts to that new VPS, then bring your existing cPanel VPS IP Address over to the new VPS.

This means you the cPanel based Web Hoster don’t need to change a thing and you get on to the latest cPanel software environment (and we move all our cPanel VPS customers to NVMe based storage for best site performance).

If you’d like your cPanel VPS upgraded, please get in-touch, regards,
Richard.

We’ve installed and configured a “Console” service for VPS customers, where you can connect and use either Microsoft Remote Desktop for Windows based VPS, or SSH for other VPS, as well as the VNC based console of your VPS (all KVM VPS Plan types ordered through our www website).

This site is https://console.networkpresence.com.au and we’ve auto-created logins for currently active VPS, where the login username is your VPS “name” as we know it and the login password is your VPS VNC Password, with the “-” character added and then your account’s email address (unless you’ve updated it, this is the email address you used when you ordered your VPS).

When logged in with those credentials, you’ll see icons available for RDP, VNC and SSH to your VPS.

If you have problems login into the Console site, please email us help @ networkpresence.com.au

We’ll be adding this functionality into our VPS Management pages soon as well.

We’ve filled the currently available HDD based storage arrays in our Sydney POP, and given we prefer not to put more HDD drives online in Sydney, we’ve set our HDD based VPS Plans on our websites to provision at our Adelaide POP by default from mid March 2024.

February 1st saw Gmail require better email validation and authority to send email criteria, specifically being SPF records (this has been a long term recommendation/requirement) but also now DKIM and finally DMARC DNS entries as well to ensure email sending into Gmail (and of course Microsoft/Office/Outlook) based email addresses & hosted domains.

We’ve now deployed updated SPF entries, plus DKIM and DMARC DNS entries and use for our networkpresence.com.au domain, and we’ve also done so for some customers that email from within our domain that we’re aware of, or who have asked for specific DNS entries within our domains.

VPS Customers are welcome to contact us to load their own DKIM or SPF DNS records within networkpresence.com.au that their VPS and mail server environments may require.

We’re also happy to help customers install and configure DKIM in their mail server environments (eg: in cPanel, or the various Linux flavours) and please contact us by email (admin@networkpresence.com.au) to book such work (and backups beforehand, snapshots before the work time, etc).

FYI and regards,
Richard.

cPanel themselves provide us with a license pricing level for a single cPanel Account within an cPanel VPS.

Accordingly, we’ve updated our entry level & lowest cost cPanel VPS Plan with this license, so if you need all the features of WHM/cPanel, but just for a single site or cPanel User, then our “cPanel #0” VPS Plan provides just this, at a great price point.

We’ve got our own Microsoft Operating Systems Licensing access and that’s what is provided via our Windows OS Add-ons and options for our VPS Plans.

Windows as an operating system uses more resources per unit of time than equivalent Linux based operating systems and this product’s pricing has some baseline of providing extra resources to accommodate Windows as the VPS operating system.

Please use our Windows OS Add-on to add Windows to your VPS Orders or anytime you want to use the range of Window operating systems for your VPS.

Our 2023/2024 server refresh project is reaping its rewards with extra stock available for our Shopfront site’s VPS Plans in time for the end of year rush.

We’ll keep the VPS Plans at our Shop site topped-up for availability throughout December and January now with this extra server capacity we’ve got in both Sydney and Adelaide POPs.

Regards,
Richard.

Over the next few months we’re completing a process started a year ago to upgrade our VPS Hosting Platforms to current generation brand name equipment.

To these ends the last of our 2023 VPS server upgrades comes online in December 2023 and its install completes our Hosting Platform Upgrades project that’s run over the last year.

From here we’ll see how these new servers bed down into our operations and then plan the next wave of Server Upgrades from there in 2024!

FYI and enjoy the new, faster, VPS Hosting at Network Presence, regards,
Richard.

Debian 12 & MikroTik CHR 6 &7 images now available for all customers to Reimage/Reinstall their VPS at networkpresence.com.au

We’ve moved our Operations Notices from the Twitter @netpresops to our own ops.networkpresence.co blog site.

We’ll post articles there just like we posted outage notices and other operational issues to the Twitter feed, with comments used to followup on each posted issue.