Category Archives: Network Presence

Data Centre, Network & POP Maintenance Notice – Wed evening & Thu morning, December 17th/18th 2014

Posted on November 29, 2014 by richard

During the evening of Wednesday, December 17th from 11pm that night (through to 7am on Thursday 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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New Web & API VPS Management capabilities online

Posted on November 22, 2014 by richard

We’ve recently released a number of updates to our online web-based VPS Management systems, continuing our in-house project to update the capabilities (more features and functionality), as well as the page visuals/layout (icon use, etc), of these web interfaces of … Continue reading →

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Good news for our growth in the US, bad news for our Canberra POP

Posted on November 19, 2014 by richard

Bad news out of the way first: Our long running but never very popular Canberra POP is going to go offline later this week. This is not caused by Network Presence nor any decision of mine, rather there is a … Continue reading →

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Data Centre, Network & POP Maintenance Notice – Thu evening & Fri morning, November 6th/7th 2014

Posted on October 28, 2014 by richard

During the evening of Thursday, November 6th from 11pm 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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Domestic Australian IPv6 Looking Glass by AARNet

Posted on October 18, 2014 by richard

Here’s the URL for AARNet’s public Looking Glass service, which also does various IPv6 functions, including trace6 and ping6. http://lg.aarnet.edu.au/cgi-bin/lg FYI, Richard.

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Using GECOS & PAM for custom umask settings, incl via Chroot SFTP

Posted on October 14, 2014 by richard

The PAM module “pam_umask” (installed by default in latest Debian Linux) is very useful for setting user-by-user umask permissions that even work in the constrained/restrictive (for settings) “SFTP Chroot” environment. The chroot environment of SFTP as provided by SSH is … Continue reading →

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Part Time Social Marketing Manager Role at Network Presence

Posted on October 2, 2014 by richard

We’re carving out the funding & position for someone who could perform the role of “social network manager” at Network Presence. We’re looking for someone who is able to work remotely, via (say) “home office” or telecommuting or other ways … Continue reading →

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We’ve updated our Varnish Appliance VPS for Varnis…

Posted on September 19, 2014 by richard

We’ve updated our Varnish Appliance VPS for Varnish 4 on latest CentOS 6. Fully managed Varnish Web Cache/Proxy VPS. networkpresence.com.au/hosting/applia…

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More Internet Connectivity in Sydney

Posted on September 19, 2014 by richard

Busy times! Network Presence has recently put into production more International Internet Connectivity (Transit), which includes a number of new features, notably some real-time packet filtering that removes many common “Attacks” sent to IP Addresses that occur on the modern … Continue reading →

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Quick Android VPN Client Setup How To

Posted on September 5, 2014 by richard

This quickly describes how to setup the Android L2TP/IPSec VPN client. On your Android screen, go to: Settings -> Wireless & Networks -> VPN Settings Select Add VPN – > Add L2TP/IPSec PSK VPN In the Add VPN Settings, enter: … Continue reading →

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