Category Archives: Network Presence

Rolling out Smokeping & Nagios nodes across our Network & out to the Internet

Posted on July 6, 2011 by richard

After a customer had a unique network problem, I’ve created & deployed a few instances in each of our POPs of a “Smokeping & Nagios” Appliance VPS, and this VPS is now available as a service from Network Presence too. … Continue reading →

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VPS API available which returns JSON & is web-based for ease-of-use

Posted on July 4, 2011 by richard

Last year (2010) we created an in-house API for VPS/VDS customers to automate management of their Network Presence VPS or VDS through simple web-based URLs that access the API and respond with simple JSON. Our VPS API allows you to … Continue reading →

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SSL Load Balancing discussion …

Posted on June 27, 2011 by richard

SSL Load Balancing discussion & “patches to nginx 0.8.x to provide memcached-enabled SSL session caching” http://t.co/bHLW3mG HT @postwait

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Moving away from Paypal

Posted on June 26, 2011 by richard

The frequency of “problems” with using & managing Paypal based once-off & regular payments has been increasing for us lately as the business of Network Presence has grown, and it’s now surpassed the level that I knew when running a … Continue reading →

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Nagios Acknowledge shell script

Posted on June 22, 2011 by richard

Nagios is often used in an environment where using or accessing its CGI-based web interface to ‘acknowledge’ alerts may be difficult or impossible. I was in such a situation recently, where a Nagios was going to SMS me about an … Continue reading →

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Sydney POP getting next VPS Hosting platform

Posted on June 16, 2011 by richard

I’d previously mentioned that our Sydney POP was “full” and that orders are being provisioned at our new Canberran POP (which has the also mentioned massive & very fast disk arrays!), but I’ve started the work on the install & … Continue reading →

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Bedding down Backups

Posted on June 15, 2011 by richard

We’ve started in the last couple of months distributing the (currently) weekly backups of customer VPS/VDS disk/storage devices to large scale (4TB+) data stores on our network in Sydney and Canberra. This has given us a far better backups and … Continue reading →

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Using the Unix command ‘sed’ with URLs

Posted on June 14, 2011 by richard

I’m an “old school” Unix user, who grew up on sed, awk & Sendmail, but many people still use sed & its syntax from the Unix or Linux command-line daily, so this is a quick note on how to use … Continue reading →

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Installing SpamAssassin & ClamAV with Amavisd-milter on Sendmail on CentOS 5

Posted on June 12, 2011 by richard

I’ve previously described the install & setup process for spamass-milter on Sendmail for Anti-Spam processing. This blog post describes a different interface to Sendmail for Anti-Spam & Anti-Virus (AS/AV), using the Amavis daemon (amavisd-new) along with the Milter interface for … Continue reading →

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Installing ClamAV & SpamAssassin to CentOS 5 with Sendmail

Posted on June 12, 2011 by richard

Installing these Mail Server open-source software sets to CentOS 5 with Sendmail on a 64-bit CentOS 5.4 (or higher) Linux host. 1. Install RPMForge Repo to get access to more Software Packages for CentOS5 Install (using rpm -Uvh) http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm 2. … Continue reading →

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