Category Archives: Network Presence

“Cassandra’s performance has…

Posted on October 17, 2011 by richard

“Cassandra’s performance has improved spectacularly.” http://t.co/uYPyTT3N We have a Cassandra Appliance VPS avail too. http://t.co/o3DMxn6h

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Getting connected to the NBN Equinix POI in Sydney

Posted on October 16, 2011 by richard

This week our network will bring online a hosted connection to the National Broadband Network’s network via the NBN’s Equinix POI in Sydney. This will be only the first of many connections we expect to bring online to the various … Continue reading →

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Colo includes a VPS for High Availability, Failover or Backup

Posted on September 24, 2011 by richard

We’ll formalise this on our Plans pages soon, but all our Colo Plans now include a minimum of a 500MB VPS (either KVM or Xen based) within our network, but on different routers, switches and as much a seperate path … Continue reading →

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How to setup Ruby on Rails Hosting using Apache, from Development to Production

Posted on September 20, 2011 by richard

In addition to the ‘development Ruby on Rails’ environment and Appliance VPS product, we’ve recently worked through the software requirements and dependencies of a ‘production’ Ruby on Rails hosting environment and VPS. The following technical information outlines the broad sysadmin … Continue reading →

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Added Torrus to Freeside for ‘bandwidth’ Billing

Posted on September 17, 2011 by richard

We’ve been working with a few instances of our Freeside Appliance VPS & been able to recently install & configure through to billing & usage, customers in Freeside that are billed by their ‘bandwidth’ (eg: Megabits per Second) usage. This … Continue reading →

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KVM VPS Available

Posted on September 16, 2011 by richard

We’ve added to our Virtualisation product range by bringing online recently our first KVM-based VPS Hosting Platform in Sydney, with another being built & expected online in October. This will add to our existing cluster of Xen-based VPS Hosting Platforms … Continue reading →

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Backblaze Storage Pods – 1PB in 3/4 of a Rack!

Posted on September 14, 2011 by richard

This is nectar for an Infrastructure Geek like myself, being data centre-grade Storage Infrastructure, for those of us that are interested in such things! Basically, 1 PetaByte (1000 TB) of redundant customised storage in 3/4 of a Data Centre Rack, … Continue reading →

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Bringing up a Diaspora “Pod”

Posted on September 9, 2011 by richard

We’re working through the technical requirements & installation process of deploying a Diaspora Pod within Network Presence. Once we’ve done this, we’ll create a Diaspora ‘Appliance’ VPS for customers to deploy should they wish. I’ll update this post’s comments with … Continue reading →

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FreeBSD available more & more..

Posted on September 3, 2011 by richard

There was a time in ~2009 where I was confident that FreeBSD would complete full Xen PVS functionality, but that didn’t really come to pass (I know that some people have it running ok with various customisations, granted). But I’m … Continue reading →

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How to install cPanel on your VPS

Posted on September 1, 2011 by richard

We’ve done a few of these installs for customers lately & it’s really very simple, so here’s a short step-by-step on it. a) Ensure you have a good amount of disk space available and that your VPS OS is up … Continue reading →

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