Category Archives: Network Presence

Need help virtualizing legacy or physical systems?

Posted on August 31, 2012 by richard

You can get a significant Internet hosting speed increase if you take the filesystems of (say) an old, legacy physical server that may be in-house or in your own datacentre and virtualise it on our high-performance VPS Plans and our … Continue reading →

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Secret Sauce for faster VPS disk activity

Posted on August 23, 2012 by richard

As we posted over 2 years ago, there’s a number of ways to speed up the general operations of a Linux (or Unix/Solaris/FreeBSD) system and one which we use & recommend a lot is to mount filesystems with the “noatime” … Continue reading →

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Session transparent Tomcat Clustering using Apache mod_jk

Posted on August 16, 2012 by richard

Having recently presented an updated instance of my Tomcat Administration training course, I was able to add to the method of combining the previously posted setting of the ‘redistributable’ option for a Tomcat web application (webapp), to allow more or … Continue reading →

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Tomcat Administration Training Course for 3 days from Monday August 13th 2012

Posted on August 11, 2012 by richard

We’ve confirmed the bookings for the next Tomcat Administration Training Course that I present here in Adelaide during the week starting August 13th. This course will be run at the first-rate Training Rooms of Express Training Connections in Gawler Place, … Continue reading →

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We Peer so you don’t have to pay for some of your data usage

Posted on August 3, 2012 by richard

Sometimes we get asked what our “Non-Peerable Internet Transit” VPS and Colo data quotas mean and it’s based on the rather unique nature of the domestic Internet in Australia. In short, Australia (being so remote to the rest of the … Continue reading →

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Adding SSL Certificates and settings to your cPanel VPS

Posted on August 2, 2012 by richard

Assuming you’ve generated your SSL Certificate’s CSR and Key files elsewhere or outside of your cPanel itself, then once you have your purchased official signed Certificate (we use and recommend NameCheap.com Comodo SSL Certs), you can install those SSL files … Continue reading →

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Sydney NAS Online with 4TB

Posted on July 30, 2012 by richard

Some of our customers have multiple VPS online on various seperate hardware platforms at our main Sydney Australia POP at Equinix in Sydney, and could utilise a shared or common network-based disk for greater capabilities and utilisation of their VPS. … Continue reading →

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Install PHP 5.3 and MySQL 5.5 to CentOS 5

Posted on July 29, 2012 by richard

To keep up with the latest versions of PHP and MySQL, CentOS 5 based Linux systems need to install the EPEL and Remi Repositories to get MySQL 5.5 installed to CentOS 5. Commands are (as root): yum install php53-mysql wget … Continue reading →

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More people working at Network Presence

Posted on July 27, 2012 by richard

As per some of our blog’d history, there are now 3 other people working with me (Richard Siggs) to run Network Presence Pty Ltd on a daily and weekly basis. John does ‘customer outreach’ (Sales & Marketing) and over time … Continue reading →

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Ensuring your Java Apps can be clustered in Tomcat

Posted on July 26, 2012 by richard

This will be covered at our upcoming Tomcat Administration Training Course in August, but a quick note that the default for this setting is ‘false’ and this can complicate easy and seamless load balancing and high availability of Web apps … Continue reading →

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