Author Archives: richard

After some 15 years of operation, I’ve decided to shutdown the publicretail cloud/VPS operations side of Network Presence. The first phase of this is to quickly shutdown the Sydney POP, with thelast day of service from Network Presence in Sydney … Continue reading →

Use the following command to get the full output from a recent service start attempt: SYSTEMD_LESS=”FRXMK” journalctl -xeu $SERVICENAME eg: # SYSTEMD_LESS=”FRXMK” journalctl -xeu httpd

‘tcp[tcpflags] & (tcp-syn) != 0 and tcp[tcpflags] & (tcp-ack) == 0 and dst port $PORTNUM’

We’re bringing online new VPS hosting servers (hypervisors) in our Adelaide POP, and moving some existing Adelaide POP customers to these new servers, with short outages for each customer VPS as these migrations occur. This is possible after we’ve integrated … Continue reading →

Once again, like clockwork, it’s 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 … Continue reading →

Redhat’s GPFS distributed file system is used in many HPC environments and is now known as IBM Storage Scale. It is not open-source software and can be downloaded from IBM’s sites. There is a Developer version which can be downloaded … Continue reading →

Reimage your VPS with our Ubuntu 24.04 template. Login to your VPS as root and run: apt update && apt upgrade Then install nodejs & npm with: apt install nodejs npm Now you can install claude-code with: npm install -g … Continue reading →

Here’s the site where the old CentOS Linux Distros archive their final repositories. http://archive.kernel.org/centos-vault/

Final command line is: OPENSSL_CONF=~/.ssh/openssl.cnf ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o HostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa -o HostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-dss -o PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms=+ssh-dss -o PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa -o KexAlgorithms=+diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1 -o MACS=+hmac-sha1 -o PubkeyAcceptedKeyTypes=+ssh-rsa -o PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa $USER@$HOST Where ~/.ssh/openssl.cnf is: .include /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf[openssl_init]alg_section = evp_properties[evp_properties]rh-allow-sha1-signatures = yes

We’re installing a 2nd fibre link to our Adelaide POP. This link will be through Vocus on physical separate & diverse fibre paths to our Adelaide POP and will allow greater Internet access redundancy & capacity for us in Adelaide. … Continue reading →