Category Archives: Network Presence

New Los Angeles USA VPN and VPS products from Network Presence

Posted on August 5, 2015 by richard

We’re pleased to release the first products and services from our new Los Angeles, California, USA POP, based in the “Core of the Internet” at the 1 Wilshire Data Centre skyscraper in Los Angeles city. This POP is connected via … Continue reading →

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TLS/SSL config updates to Sendmail for recent OpenSSL versions

Posted on July 21, 2015 by richard

Recent SSL updates to the OpenSSL package have removed old DH parameters which are built into Sendmail mail server software, so the following are configuration updates to Sendmail (sendmail.cf) to enable the use of a longer DH Parameter to TLS/SSL … Continue reading →

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Get more CPU Cores for your Sydney VPS with our new KVM SSD VPS Plans

Posted on July 4, 2015 by richard

We’ve been working on this for some time and we’re pleased to provide an “early release” of our new range of KVM and Xen Virtualisation SSD VPS Plans at our main Sydney POP in the Equinix SY1 Data Centre in … Continue reading →

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SysAdmin Assistance for customers with 2 or more VPS

Posted on June 30, 2015 by richard

During July and August 2015 we’re offering customers with 2 or more VPS “a few hours” of our SysAdmin time and effort, available to do what you’d like on your Network Presence VPS. This is equivalent to a free “SysAdmin … Continue reading →

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Data Centre, Network & POP Maintenance Notice – Fri evening & Sat morning, July 3rd/4th 2015

Posted on June 30, 2015 by richard

During the evening of Friday, July 3rd from 10pm that night (through to 7am on Saturday morning) we will be performing upgrades to network infrastructure (routers, switches & other network-based infrastructure) and selected hosting server platforms of Network Presence in … Continue reading →

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Bashism: Convert the case of a variable

Posted on June 24, 2015 by richard

Following on with more Bash version 4 Shell coding notes, here’s a way (as always with Bash, there’s so many ways to do anything) to ensure a variable is all lowercase characters (or all uppercase): a=Hello echo ${a,,} hello You … Continue reading →

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Use sed to delete lines between text phrases

Posted on June 19, 2015 by richard

How to remove lines from stdin between and including the 2 lines as fields in a sed expression: sed “/textline1/,/textline2/d” This will delete from the input all lines between a line containing the text ‘textline1’ and ‘textline2’. If you have … Continue reading →

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Some Bash-isms

Posted on June 18, 2015 by richard

Being a “code daily” type of open-source SysAdmin/Operations Manager, I’ll post here a ‘tricks & tips’ that I’ve found useful when using and programming in the Bash Shell. This one notes how to replace a Bash variable name with another … Continue reading →

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Free VPN with your VPS at Network Presence

Posted on May 13, 2015 by richard

Along with a number of product refreshes and new products we’re rolling out from June this year, we’re pleased to announce that all existing and new VPS customers going forward will be offered a free VPN with their Network Presence … Continue reading →

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Data Centre, Network & POP Maintenance Notice – Thu evening & Fri morning, May 21st/22nd 2015

Posted on May 8, 2015 by richard

During the evening of Thursday, May 21st from 10pm that night (through to 7am on Friday morning) we will be performing upgrades to network infrastructure (routers, switches & other network-based infrastructure) and selected hosting server platforms of Network Presence in … Continue reading →

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