Category Archives: Network Presence

NextDC Sydney Data Center opens in September

Posted on May 15, 2013 by richard

We’re eagerly awaiting the opening in September of NextDC’s “S1” newly built Data Center in Macquarie Park, Sydney. We’ll fill our current Sydney POP at Equinix in Mascot later this year and we’ll be keen to establish our 2nd Sydney … Continue reading →

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Webcast on Oracle DB Tips & tricks for Optimisation

Posted on May 15, 2013 by richard

Dell and the Australian Oracle Users Group are presenting a webcast on Thursday, May 23rd (Australian time) about basic methodologies of performance tuning your database, tuning your application SQL, contention, memory and I/O and automating the database performance management process. … Continue reading →

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Data Centre & POP Maintenance Notice – from 6pm, Tues, May 14th

Posted on May 12, 2013 by richard

While we aim to keep visits to a minimum at the “Lights Out Mode” main data centre POP of Network Presence in Sydney, our platform upgrades on Friday May 10th didn’t go to plan and there’s further platform upgrades which … Continue reading →

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Mailman VPS Appliance

Posted on May 1, 2013 by richard

The open-source Mailman software is widely used as Mailing List operation and management, and we’ve templated an “Appliance” VPS with a Mailman ontop of Anti-Spam/Anti-Virus mail server software, to provide you with an easily usable, configured and running Internet Mailing … Continue reading →

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JSON based Web API for customer VPS

Posted on April 29, 2013 by richard

For 4 years now we’ve had an in-house API for VPS customers to automate management of their Network Presence VPS through web-based URLs that access the API and respond with simple JSON text. Our VPS API allows you to manage … Continue reading →

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Off-site Hybrid Cloud with VPN

Posted on April 25, 2013 by richard

Our Eucalyptus and OpenStack Colo services provide a way for you to easily deploy managed and supported Hybrid Cloud capabilities for your business, without having to run & pay for support of servers in-house. Furthermore, often your existing office or … Continue reading →

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Doubling the RAM of older VPS customers

Posted on April 10, 2013 by richard

We’ve been busy this year adding new server platforms to Network Presence and part of this has been to service our new (since Jan 2013) VPS Plans, and now we’re able to provide more VPS resources (RAM in this case) … Continue reading →

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APNIC IPv6 Training Course in Melbourne in June

Posted on April 8, 2013 by richard

Our local area NIC (APNIC) are conducting a 3 day IPv6 Training Course in Melbourne, Australia soon on June 24th to 26th 2013. If you’re looking for more information and such on IPv6, then this is it “from the horse’s … Continue reading →

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Available for Consulting & Contracting on Internet, Linux & Open-Source in Australia/NZ

Posted on April 8, 2013 by richard

I’m now available at short-notice for brief work contracts in Adelaide (primarily), but also anywhere in Australia or New Zealand (as well as Asia, Europe and the US as relevant). My preference and major availability for is brief or short … Continue reading →

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Installing Oracle XE Database on CentOS

Posted on April 6, 2013 by richard

Once you satisfy the login requirements for Oracle’s site, you can download their “Express” Database, which from their License Agreement for that DB sofware, can only be run/used in the following manner: Any use of the Oracle Database Express Edition … Continue reading →

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