Category Archives: Network Presence

Fast, Cheap & Easy Cloud Computing through Network Presence

Posted on August 20, 2011 by richard

We’ve got a lot of Cloud Computing and on-demand VPS deployment & operations experience, so whether you’re thinking about migrating some internal or in-building/office servers and systems and which you’d want running 24×7, or you have a unique high-computing processing … Continue reading →

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Installing PHP 5.2.x to CentOS 5.6

Posted on August 18, 2011 by richard

It’s very easy, using CentOS own Repositories & the ‘yum’ package management system to install a version of PHP 5.2 to CentOS 5.6 First, configure your yum to use the official CentOS 5 “Testing” Repo, by creating the file /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Test.repo … Continue reading →

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Running hordes of clustered Tomcats

Posted on August 5, 2011 by richard

I’ve ordered ‘the book’ on Tomcat 6 from Amazon, to “tick all the boxes” on a large production Tomcat cluster that I’m running. I’ve seen some amazing Tomcat performance, most good, some bad and made the config updates req’d to … Continue reading →

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Understanding Cassandra’s Datamodel

Posted on August 3, 2011 by richard

I’ve done a bit of development around Cassandra this year, after having read the book on it (http://www.amazon.com/Cassandra-Definitive-Guide-Eben-Hewitt/dp/1449390412/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312331422&sr=8-1) and then using it to store our NetFlow data for a week or so earlier in 2011. So I found this “grok … Continue reading →

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Weekly Tweets for 2011-07-31

Posted on July 31, 2011 by richard

Great info on Memcached & mySQL to be 'like' a NoSQL deployment, with performance info & more. http://t.co/xIDZCOf #NetPres # Listening keenly to @stilgherrian's "Patch Monday" podcast with Dr Vogels, Amazon's CTO. Avail via @pocketcasts & #iTunes not web yet.. … Continue reading →

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Freeside Online Billing & Accounting VPS

Posted on July 28, 2011 by richard

Freeside is an online billing and accounting system for ISPs and other online businesses. We’ve created a “VPS Appliance” Plan which provides you with a customised but fully installed & operational Freeside system! This was an “interesting” VPS build, requiring … Continue reading →

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SSD Drives & High-Performance Storage VPS Plans

Posted on July 28, 2011 by richard

We’ve been steadily focussing on upgrades for the various critical components of our VPS services, with many CPU, Ram & Disk capacity upgrades done. Now we’re adding to our ‘Big Disk’ capabilities with ‘Fast Disk’, by making available SSD backed … Continue reading →

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Great info on Memcached & mySQ…

Posted on July 25, 2011 by richard

Great info on Memcached & mySQL to be ‘like’ a NoSQL deployment, with performance info & more. http://t.co/xIDZCOf #NetPres

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Custom VPS & Hosting Plans are our speciality

Posted on July 14, 2011 by richard

A customer recently asked whether we can “customise” a quote for a VPS and the essence of our reply is: Custom Hosting requirements are our speciality (we have a rails app coming which will allow customers to self-provision there’s VPS, … Continue reading →

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Yearly Data Centre & POP Maintenance Notice

Posted on July 12, 2011 by richard

It’s been a year since I physically visited the “Lights Out Mode” data centre POP of Network Presence in Sydney and in that year we’ve grown the business and hosting capabilities many fold. But eventually such growth needs me to … Continue reading →

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