Weekly Tweets for 2011-07-10

Posted on July 10, 2011 by richard
  • Yes, we do have IP Address Space which can be online in minutes & which isn't normally routed, incase of DDOS or other outages.. #NetPres #
  • As @netpresops has mentioned, our network is back to normal, all AOK following prompt action by our suppliers. #NetPres #
  • Our Secondary Internet & Peering Link is unaffected & portions of #NetPres have been moved to route via the 2nd link as a precaution.. #
  • Change in some domestic & International routing of our Primary Upstream supplier has been logged with them. @netpresops has more info.. #
  • "a new list of recommended hotfixes for Windows 2008 R2 SP1 with DPM 2010" great info from @AuTechHeads blogs http://t.co/BDVW3A2 #
  • On Telstra / Optus & want a local DNS Resolver that doesn't do "security theatre", our Public DNS may help. Set DNS Server to 113.212.97.153 #
  • We've done some Ruby/Rails & cPanel VPS installs for customers recently, so feel free to ask for your VPS to be setup as you want! #NetPres #

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Yes, we do have IP Address Spa…

Posted on July 9, 2011 by richard

Yes, we do have IP Address Space which can be online in minutes & which isn’t normally routed, incase of DDOS or other outages.. #NetPres

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As @netpresops has mentioned, …

Posted on July 7, 2011 by richard

As @netpresops has mentioned, our network is back to normal, all AOK following prompt action by our suppliers. #NetPres

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Our Secondary Internet & Peeri…

Posted on July 7, 2011 by richard

Our Secondary Internet & Peering Link is unaffected & portions of #NetPres have been moved to route via the 2nd link as a precaution..

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Change in some domestic & Inte…

Posted on July 7, 2011 by richard

Change in some domestic & International routing of our Primary Upstream supplier has been logged with them. @netpresops has more info..

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Rolling out Smokeping & Nagios nodes across our Network & out to the Internet

Posted on July 6, 2011 by richard

After a customer had a unique network problem, I’ve created & deployed a few instances in each of our POPs of a “Smokeping & Nagios” Appliance VPS, and this VPS is now available as a service from Network Presence too.

We’ll keep using and refining this Appliance VPS product, but even now it provides a great service for a customer of Network Presence & I think it has promise for others on the Internet who may want the combination of Smokeping and Nagios from any of the POPs of Network Presence, which currently includes Sydney and Canberra in Australia and Arizona in the United States of America (soon to include London, UK).

If you want to install Smokeping & Nagios on your own systems, I’ll shortly post the sysadmin actions req’d to do these installs, to this Blog too.

Richard.

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“a new list of recommended hot…

Posted on July 5, 2011 by richard

“a new list of recommended hotfixes for Windows 2008 R2 SP1 with DPM 2010” great info from @AuTechHeads blogs http://t.co/BDVW3A2

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Tweets for 2011-07-05

Posted on July 5, 2011 by richard
  • On Telstra / Optus & want a local DNS Resolver that doesn't do "security theatre", our Public DNS may help. Set DNS Server to 113.212.97.153 #

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VPS API available which returns JSON & is web-based for ease-of-use

Posted on July 4, 2011 by richard

Last year (2010) we created an in-house API for VPS/VDS customers to automate management of their Network Presence VPS or VDS through simple web-based URLs that access the API and respond with simple JSON.

Our VPS API allows you to manage & report on (any of) your Network Presence VPS and some information (contact details, VPS Plan information, etc) on the Account that owns & pays for the VPS.

API functionality includes;

+ Display the current status of your running VPS, including memory, CPU and network usage
+ Stop your VPS
+ Start your VPS
+ Get basic information on the VPS Account
+ Regeneratable “Key” or code required with each call to the API

The way that the API works is by providing a means to generate a unique Key or code for access to the API, which means that the customer’s username and password doesn’t need to be supplied in calls to the API.

The Network Presence VPS Management page has an option to “Generate and Store an API Key”, which is returned back on-screen and should be saved for use in calls to the API.

Calling the API is as simple as supplying the “API Key” in standard (GET format) URLs, like:

API-URL/api?key=MyAPIKey?a=command

Note: please contact us for the full API-URL, as it’s not listed here in a public resource..

Where ‘command’ can be: status, info, stop, terminate, start

status = list information about the running VPS & whether the VPS is running

info = list some account or contact information on the VPS

stop = perform an ‘orderly’ shutdown of the VPS (like “pressing the power button”)

terminate = immediately shutdown the VPS (like “pulling the power cord”)

start = perform a startup or “boot up” of the VPS

All customers are welcome to use the API and please report and problems to us by email (ie: don’t post here for API Feedback).

FYI & regards,
Richard.

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On Telstra / Optus & want a lo…

Posted on July 4, 2011 by richard

On Telstra / Optus & want a local DNS Resolver that doesn’t do “security theatre”, our Public DNS may help. Set DNS Server to 113.212.97.153

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