Category Archives: Network Presence

Fantastic Australian Peering connectivity

Posted on October 23, 2011 by richard

NOTE: This is old, we no longer have direct un-metered connectivity to AARNet, not since 2015. We’ve worked hard during 2011 to secure some truely excellent Australian Internet Peering connectivity from our network base in Sydney and Canberra, gaining access … Continue reading →

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We’re a great “Second Site” because we own all our Infrastructure

Posted on October 22, 2011 by richard

Because we own all our Infrastructure, we’ve got a number of “second site” customers, and we’ve found a good win-win niche in providing “everything except ‘be live’ but be ready” capabilities in Sydney and/or Canberra. How customers use this capability … Continue reading →

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We deliver high QoS because we own all our Infrastructure

Posted on October 20, 2011 by richard

Sometimes I get asked whether we’re ‘just a reseller’ of someone else’s services and it’s worth noting that we own all our Internet Infrastructure, which means that we have a different niche & capability, one that many of our competitors … Continue reading →

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“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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