Author Archives: richard

New features for VPS Management web pages – Firewall / Packet Filtering [in Beta to start]

Posted on May 10, 2018 by richard

Our journey to update and refresh our web-based VPS Management site and pages continues to deliver results for our customers, with our next newly deployed feature being the ability to set “Firewall Rules” and packet filters on both the incoming … Continue reading →

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Adelaide POP now available for our KVM based VPS Plans

Posted on April 27, 2018 by richard

After years of waiting for a Data Centre with the relevant connectivity available for us to use in Adelaide, we’ve finally been able to secure the commercials we wanted for Network Presence to establish its Adelaide, South Australia POP. This … Continue reading →

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Customer Loyalty Scheme through our Cloud Credits

Posted on April 12, 2018 by richard

Our Cloud Credits provide an easy way to increase or decrease the resourcing levels of your Network Presence VPS. In addition to purchasing Cloud Credits on our website, one other way that customers ‘earn’ or get Cloud Credits is through … Continue reading →

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Network Presence Cloud Credits

Posted on April 4, 2018 by richard

Our Cloud Credits are available for customers to add/remove resources (CPU, Memory, Disk space, IP Addresses, Firewalls, etc) to their service or Account at Network Presence. The concept is that you have a balance of Network Presence Cloud Credits for … Continue reading →

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How to upgrade from Ubuntu 16 to 17

Posted on February 16, 2018 by richard

VPS Customers running Ubuntu 16 can upgrade to their latest OS version, being Ubuntu 17.10 currently, with the following commands run as the root user: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade Then set ‘Prompt=normal’ in /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades and run (as root, preferably … Continue reading →

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New features for VPS Management web pages – Disk Usage

Posted on February 3, 2018 by richard

Our journey to update and refresh our web-based VPS Management site and pages is continuing to deliver results for our customers, with a newly deployed feature being the listing (where possible) of the usage of your VPS Disk’s filesystem (mostly … Continue reading →

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New features for VPS Management web pages – Single Login & Snapshots

Posted on January 29, 2018 by richard

From late December 2017 we started deploying new features and functionality to our web-based VPS Management pages on our website. The new site has better login functionality and navigation since late December 2017 and this week (late Jan 2018) we’ve … Continue reading →

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How to use the CentOS Plus kernel for CentOS 7 on Xen VPS

Posted on December 11, 2017 by richard

RedHat has dropped the ball on supporting the Xen based virtualisation technologies and due to commercial reasons will not fix their recently introduced kernel bug on Xen PV platforms. So the fix is to switch to the “CentOS Plus” kernel, … Continue reading →

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Data Centre, Network & POP Maintenance Notice – Wed evening & Thu morning, Oct 4th/5th 2017

Posted on September 21, 2017 by richard

During the evening of Wednesday, October 4th from 9pm that night (through to 6am on Thursday morning) we will be performing upgrades to selected hosting server platforms and network components of Network Presence in Sydney, Australia. Customers with services (VPS) … Continue reading →

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Data Centre, Network & POP Maintenance Notice – Wed evening & Thu morning, Aug 9th/10th 2017

Posted on July 27, 2017 by richard

During the evening of Wednesday, August 9th from 9pm that night (through to 6am on Thursday morning) we will be performing upgrades to selected hosting server platforms of Network Presence in Sydney, Australia. Customers with services (VPS) on the hosting … Continue reading →

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