Category Archives: Network Presence

Industry Commentary: NBN # of POIs needs to be rationalised

Posted on December 26, 2011 by richard

There’s been a lot of mainstream media (MSM) commentary about the NBN, much of which is negative by heavily vested media interests, that I don’t read or pay attention to. But during the years (now) of the NBN conceptualisation and … Continue reading →

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More Backup options and capabilities for Network Presence customers

Posted on December 25, 2011 by richard

We do ‘go on’ about Backups, sorry about that, but they’re so important to any IT business. We’ve now got a new Backup Service available that can (when you permit it) connect to your running VPS or Colo host and … Continue reading →

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Deploying more Connectivity to Network Presence

Posted on December 19, 2011 by richard

Infrastructure growth management is a key component of the business and operations of Network Presence, with new server capacity coming online monthly nowadays. Another aspect though of that growth is in our Internet connectivity and we’re pleased to announce additional … Continue reading →

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Available for Consulting & Contracting on Internet, Linux & Open-Source in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne & Adelaide

Posted on December 11, 2011 by richard

Following the sale of the Groundhog development team and work pipeline to DWS in Adelaide recently, I’m now available at short-notice for brief work contracts in Adelaide (primarily), Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney in Australia, as well as Asia, Europe and … Continue reading →

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Configuring Apache 2.2 LDAP auth to an Active Directory server

Posted on December 5, 2011 by richard

I greatly appreciated finding this page through a few Google searches, on how to configure Apache v2.2 web server to authenticate against an Active Directory server using LDAP. The steps are also listed here in short-form incase the source site … Continue reading →

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EveryNet National ISP

Posted on November 29, 2011 by richard

As per my LinkedIn profile, EveryNet is a National ISP using ADSL & the NBN to deliver ISP connectivity to Australians near & far. EveryNet will rollout and be available in most ADSL locations across Australia and can offer ‘Naked … Continue reading →

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Varnish Web Load Balancer Appliance VPS

Posted on November 20, 2011 by richard

We’ve done this process many times now and we know what it takes to put a Varnish Web Load Balancer in-front of a “heavy” or high hit rate web site. As such we’ve now updated our Managed VPS Appliance Plan … Continue reading →

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When you need to Scale, we’re here for you!

Posted on November 14, 2011 by richard

We’re used to customers needing to “scale, TODAY!” and as such we have ‘cold spares’ server capapabilities and capacity available to Network Presence customers who may need (say) 20 CPUs and 40GB of RAM with many hundreds of GB or … Continue reading →

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More 6 Gbps Disks coming online

Posted on November 9, 2011 by richard

An important part of our “Letting our Servers Loose” through Infrastructure Upgrades in 2011 has been keeping up with customer requirements for more & more Disk I/O & bandwidth to store data in their VPS/VDS. So far nearly 1/2 of … Continue reading →

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Tomcat Course Notes #2 – CentOS mod_jk/mod_proxy Apache Tomcat

Posted on November 7, 2011 by richard

This is another ‘brain dump’ of some notes for the Tomcat Admin Course that I’m presenting in Adelaide on November 7 – 9 for http://etc-australia.com This note is focussed on interfacing Tomcat on port 8080 (HTTP/1.1) or 8009 (for AJP/1.3 … Continue reading →

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