Category Archives: Network Presence

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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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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