Network Presence Blog

During the weekend of Saturday late afternoon & evening of February 25th and Sunday the 26th we will be performing upgrades to selected hosting server platforms & one of our network uplinks of Network Presence in Sydney, Australia.

Customers with services (VPS) on the hosting platforms to be upgraded may be emailed advisory notices, and this is a general notice related to other ancillary upgrades and Infrastructure Maintenance being performed during this scheduled window of time.

This Maintenance Window starts from 5pm on the Saturday afternoon, through to 6am Sydney time on the morning of Sunday February 26th 2023, and I’ll be personally contactable by phone & online during and after these works in-case there’s any issues that arise.

During this Maintenance Window, selected network or server equipment will be worked on, upgraded and restarted. Works will be completed as quickly as possible (and where possible, timing information will be in emails to affected customers) and restarts are short service interruptions only, while upgrades may incur longer service interruptions.

This will incur outages to selected hosting services of Network Presence in Sydney, Australia during this off-peak scheduled works period.In addition, there may be some impact (short 5-10 minute periods) to the general Internet Connectivity of portions of Network Presence in Sydney during these works, though redundant routing will be utilised during these works.
Our Adelaide POP is unaffected by this Maintenance Notice and works.

Progress updates leading up to and during the works will be posted to our Operations Twitter Feed at https://twitter.com/netpresops (public feed, no login required to view it).

FYI and regards,
Richard.

During the weekend of Saturday late afternoon & evening of January 14th and Sunday the 15th we will be performing upgrades to selected hosting server platforms & one of our network uplinks of Network Presence in Sydney, Australia.

Customers with services (VPS) on the hosting platforms to be upgraded may be emailed advisory notices, and this is a general notice related to other ancillary upgrades and Infrastructure Maintenance being performed during this scheduled window of time.

This Maintenance Window starts from 5pm on the Saturday afternoon, through to 6am Sydney time on the morning of Sunday January 15th 2023, and I’ll be personally contactable by phone & online during and after these works in-case there’s any issues that arise.

During this Maintenance Window, selected network or server equipment will be worked on, upgraded and restarted. Works will be completed as quickly as possible (and where possible, timing information will be in emails to affected customers) and restarts are short service interruptions only, while upgrades may incur longer service interruptions.

This will incur outages to selected hosting services of Network Presence in Sydney, Australia during this off-peak scheduled works period.In addition, there may be some impact (short 5-10 minute periods) to the general Internet Connectivity of portions of Network Presence in Sydney during these works, though redundant routing will be utilised during these works.
Our Adelaide POP is unaffected by this Maintenance Notice and works.

Progress updates leading up to and during the works will be posted to our Operations Twitter Feed at https://twitter.com/netpresops (public feed, no login required to view it).

FYI and regards,
Richard.

During the weekend of Saturday late afternoon & evening of November 12th and Sunday the 13th we will be performing upgrades to selected hosting server platforms & one of our network uplinks of Network Presence in Sydney, Australia.

Customers with services (VPS) on the hosting platforms to be upgraded may be emailed advisory notices, and this is a general notice related to other ancillary upgrades and Infrastructure Maintenance being performed during this scheduled window of time.

This Maintenance Window starts from 5pm on the Saturday afternoon, through to 6am Sydney time on the morning of Sunday November 13th 2022, and I’ll be personally contactable by phone & online during and after these works in-case there’s any issues that arise.

During this Maintenance Window, selected network or server equipment will be worked on, upgraded and restarted. Works will be completed as quickly as possible (and where possible, timing information will be in emails to affected customers) and restarts are short service interruptions only, while upgrades may incur longer service interruptions.

This will incur outages to selected hosting services of Network Presence in Sydney, Australia during this off-peak scheduled works period.

In addition, there may be some impact (short 5-10 minute periods) to the general Internet Connectivity of portions of Network Presence in Sydney during these works, though redundant routing will be utilised during these works.

Our Adelaide POP is unaffected by this Maintenance Notice and works.

Progress updates leading up to and during the works will be posted to our Operations Twitter Feed at https://twitter.com/netpresops (public feed, no login required to view it).

FYI and regards,
Richard.

Over the next few months we’re upgrading a number of our VPS Hosting Nodes in our Sydney and Adelaide POPs. These Upgrades entail new hardware for many customer VPS and at some point in this process VPS will need to be stopped on their old node and started on the new one.

To these ends we’ve got the first batch of new server platforms coming online in Sydney before Christmas 2022 and more in early 2023, and customers are being migrated to them as requested or required by their usage profiles.

There’s also new servers coming online in our Adelaide POP, along with more network capacity for that location.

Progressively over the end of 2022 and the months of early to mid 2023, we’ll let customers know whenever the upgrades affect their VPS.

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

During the weekend of Saturday late afternoon & evening July 16th and 17th we will be performing upgrades to selected hosting server platforms & one of our network uplinks of Network Presence in Sydney, Australia.

Customers with services (VPS) on the hosting platforms to be upgraded may be emailed advisory notices, and this is a general notice related to other ancillary upgrades and Infrastructure Maintenance being performed during this scheduled window of time.

This Maintenance Window starts from 5pm on the Saturday afternoon, through to 6am Sydney time on the morning of Sunday July 17th 2022, and I’ll be personally contactable by phone & online during and after these works in-case there’s any issues that arise.

During this Maintenance Window, selected network or server equipment will be worked on, upgraded and restarted. Works will be completed as quickly as possible (and where possible, timing information will be in emails to affected customers) and restarts are short service interruptions only, while upgrades may incur longer service interruptions.

This will incur outages to selected hosting services of Network Presence in Sydney, Australia during this off-peak scheduled works period.

In addition, there may be some impact (short 5-10 minute periods) to the general Internet Connectivity of portions of Network Presence in Sydney during these works, though redundant routing will be utilised during these works.

Our Adelaide POP is unaffected by this Maintenance Notice and works.

Progress updates leading up to and during the works will be posted to our Operations Twitter Feed at https://twitter.com/netpresops

FYI and regards,
Richard.

During the weekend of Saturday late afternoon & evening May 14th and 15th we will be performing upgrades to selected hosting server platforms & one of our network uplinks of Network Presence in Sydney, Australia.

Customers with services (VPS) on the hosting platforms to be upgraded may be emailed advisory notices, and this is a general notice related to other ancillary upgrades and Infrastructure Maintenance being performed during this scheduled window of time.

This Maintenance Window starts from 5pm on the Saturday afternoon, through to 6am Sydney time on the morning of Sunday May 15th 2022, and I’ll be personally contactable by phone & online during and after these works in-case there’s any issues that arise.

During this Maintenance Window, selected network or server equipment will be worked on, upgraded and restarted. Works will be completed as quickly as possible (and where possible, timing information will be in emails to affected customers) and restarts are short service interruptions only, while upgrades may incur longer service interruptions.

This will incur outages to selected hosting services of Network Presence in Sydney, Australia during this off-peak scheduled works period.

In addition, there may be some impact (short 5-10 minute periods) to the general Internet Connectivity of portions of Network Presence in Sydney during these works, though redundant routing will be utilised during these works.

Our Adelaide POP is unaffected by this Maintenance Notice and works.

Progress updates leading up to and during the works will be posted to our Operations Twitter Feed at https://twitter.com/netpresops

FYI and regards,
Richard.

Network Presence customers who pay us over $20/month for their VPS are now able to get a free or gratis Web Proxy/Load Balancer VPS that’s automatically configured (when requested in our VPS Management web pages) to send web traffic to the customer’s main VPS.

The Web Proxy service is available through our web-based VPS Management pages when logged in with your normal VPS user (click on the “Web Proxy” button once logged in) and the automatic setup process will email you the access and usage details of your Web Proxy. The main information you need is how to upload your SSL Certificate files for the https:// protocol to present your site’s SSL Certificate to end-user browsers accessing your site through the Web Proxy.

To start using your Web Proxy you need to FTP or SFTP login to your Web Proxy VPS on its listed IP address with the username and password supplied in the initial “Web Proxy Provisioning Report and Usage Information” email that’s sent after your Web Proxy VPS is all setup and running from when you click on the ‘Web Proxy’ button in the VPS Management web pages. We recommend the “FileZilla” FTP/SFTP client software to upload your Certificate (certname.crt), Key (certname.key) and any “CA Bundle” (certname.ca-bundle) files to your Web Proxy VPS. Once any of the above files are uploaded (see the provisioning email for more details) they’re configured into the Web Proxy software within a minute from upload.

As mentioned, these “provided for free” or gratis Web Proxy servers are available for any Network Presence VPS customer who pays us over $20/month. This determination is made by the VPS Management system and some customers pay us via other means or have custom orders or other payment arrangements which could mean that the VPS Management system may not be able to automatically ascertain this information for your main VPS service, in which case please just contact Admin (email admin AT networkpresence.com.au) with your VPS details (IP Address or order # or payment information) and we’ll check the payment amount and provision your free Web Proxy for you promptly from there.

You can use these Web Proxies as “front-line” web servers to your sites, where your main web server(s) can be available for the Internet to use just through the Web Proxy (by updating your DNS so that your website’s URL points to the Web Proxy VPS rather an your main webserver VPS) and this can provide some security and other capabilities for your website eg: our Web Proxies can enable security based filtering of traffic to your web server and more front-end web features, please contact Admin for more details and information about your Web Proxy’s use and capabilities. eg: it can also proxy your web sessions to multiple back-end servers (across the Internet) and can do other web server functions for our sites.

If you don’t see the ‘Web Proxy’ button in your VPS Management login, please recheck in a few days, as this new feature is being progressively rolled out for our VPS customers in April 2022.

Enjoy this free value-add service for your Network Presence VPS, regards,
Richard.

During the weekend of Friday late afternoon & evening April 8th and 9th we will be performing upgrades to selected hosting server platforms & one of our network uplinks of Network Presence in Sydney, Australia.

Customers with services (VPS) on the hosting platforms to be upgraded may be emailed advisory notices, and this is a general notice related to other ancillary upgrades and Infrastructure Maintenance being performed during this scheduled window of time.

This Maintenance Window starts from 5pm on the Friday afternoon, through to 6am Sydney time on the morning of Saturday April 9th 2022, and I’ll be personally contactable by phone & online during and after these works in-case there’s any issues that arise.

During this Maintenance Window, selected network or server equipment will be worked on, upgraded and restarted. Works will be completed as quickly as possible (and where possible, timing information will be in emails to affected customers) and restarts are short service interruptions only, while upgrades may incur longer service interruptions.

This will incur outages to selected hosting services of Network Presence in Sydney, Australia during this off-peak scheduled works period.

In addition, there may be some impact (short 5-10 minute periods) to the general Internet Connectivity of portions of Network Presence in Sydney during these works, though redundant routing will be utilised during these works.

Our Adelaide POP is unaffected by this Maintenance Notice and works.

Progress updates leading up to and during the works will be posted to our Operations Twitter Feed at https://twitter.com/netpresops

FYI and regards,
Richard.

During the weekend of Saturday afternoon and evening December 18th and 19th we will be performing upgrades to selected hosting server platforms & one of our network uplinks of Network Presence in Sydney, Australia.

Customers with services (VPS) on the hosting platforms to be upgraded may be emailed advisory notices, and this is a general notice related to other ancillary upgrades and Infrastructure Maintenance being performed during this scheduled window of time.

This Maintenance Window starts from 3pm on the Saturday afternoon, through to 6am Sydney time on the morning of Sunday December 19th 2021, and I’ll be personally contactable by phone & online during and after these works in-case there’s any issues that arise.

During this Maintenance Window, selected network or server equipment will be worked on, upgraded and restarted. Works will be completed as quickly as possible (and where possible, timing information will be in emails to affected customers) and restarts are short service interruptions only, while upgrades may incur longer service interruptions.

This will incur outages to selected hosting services of Network Presence in Sydney, Australia during this off-peak scheduled works period.

In addition, there may be some impact (short 5-10 minute periods) to the general Internet Connectivity of portions of Network Presence in Sydney during these works, though redundant routing will be utilised during these works.

Our Adelaide POP is unaffected by this Maintenance Notice and works.

Progress updates during the works will be posted to our Operations Twitter Feed at https://twitter.com/netpresops

FYI and regards,
Richard.