Weekly Tweets for 2011-09-04

Posted on September 4, 2011 by richard

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FreeBSD available more & more..

Posted on September 3, 2011 by richard

There was a time in ~2009 where I was confident that FreeBSD would complete full Xen PVS functionality, but that didn’t really come to pass (I know that some people have it running ok with various customisations, granted).

But I’m a former “FreeBSD better than Linux” kinda SysAdmin, so I’m dedicated to Network Presence supporting FreeBSD in all VPS Plans, thus even given FreeBSD’s problems running as a Xen ‘para-virtualised’ VPS, Network Presence will provision any ordered FreeBSD VPS as full Xen “HVM” or KVM VPS, meaning ‘hardware virtualisation mode’ and the running FreeBSD OS doesn’t need to know that it’s running in a VPS environment, which allows the current release (8.2) of FreeBSD to run as a VPS.

I’m still a great believer in FreeBSD’s place as a modern operating system, regardless as to its requirements for full “hardware virtualisation”, so please feel free to order FreeBSD OS on our small end plans, but preferably on our 512MB or more VPS Plans, like http://netpr.es/bestprice512

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Very interesting podcast re: H…

Posted on September 3, 2011 by richard

Very interesting podcast re: Huge IT Cost Blowouts http://t.co/VsqYkh2 Open Source can help it seems! re: less customisation, just config..

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Want to load test your site, A…

Posted on September 1, 2011 by richard

Want to load test your site, API or App? http://t.co/ebG4eaW has some great options & plans.

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How to install cPanel on your VPS

Posted on September 1, 2011 by richard

We’ve done a few of these installs for customers lately & it’s really very simple, so here’s a short step-by-step on it.

a) Ensure you have a good amount of disk space available and that your VPS OS is up to date (so do a “yum upgrade” or “apt-get upgrade” or such to get all the latest OS Packages & kernels, please feel free to contact us for help on that, or to check the most recent backups of your VPS (we do backups weekly)).

At a minimum, you need Perl installed to the VPS before running the cPanel ‘latest’ installer script. On Redhat based Linux (CentOS etc) that’s done with yum -y install perl or on Debian/GNU based Linux (Ubuntu etc) with apt-get install perl

b) In a directory on a file system with lots of space available, download the latest cPanel ‘self extracting archive’ Installer via:

wget -N http://httpupdate.cpanel.net/latest

c) Become the root user (if not already) & run the downloaded file named ‘latest’ from the above wget:

sh ./latest

d) Wait. The Installer downloads all the various cPanel software components & dependencies, installs & configures them etc, it can take anywhere from ~15 mins to a few hours.

It’s really that easy, the hard work probably begins after this basic install as you setup cPanel for your desired hosting environment & settings.

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Some of the best & brightest o…

Posted on September 1, 2011 by richard

Some of the best & brightest of Australia’s Internet builders have left @Internode this week http://t.co/bDX2Wt1 I wish them all the best!

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http://t.co/HnGYs3S RT @BadAst…

Posted on August 31, 2011 by richard

http://t.co/HnGYs3S RT @BadAstronomer: Juno spacecraft captures an image of home from a long, long way away… http://t.co/VBwCURV

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Our Best Price 512MB RAM VPS P…

Posted on August 31, 2011 by richard

Our Best Price 512MB RAM VPS Plan is better than ever at less than $25 / month & runs like gold on Xen! http://t.co/de8bMIo #NetPres #VPS

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An example as to how customers…

Posted on August 29, 2011 by richard

An example as to how customers are using our #cloud #vps capabilities for a real-time, data-heavy site! http://t.co/uYQOlGd #NetPres

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Weekly Tweets for 2011-08-28

Posted on August 28, 2011 by richard

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