Category Archives: Network Presence

N+1 Routers & route mesh in Sydney

Posted on June 12, 2011 by richard

We’ve completed an important phase of upgrading our connectivity in Sydney, which now has 3 live / production links to the Internet in Sydney, as well as a ‘back-channel’ link. The crucial part here is that we’ve now enabled the … Continue reading →

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Upgrading your VPS from Debian 5 to Debian 6

Posted on June 7, 2011 by richard

Recently there’s been released an upgraded version of the popular Debian GNU/Linux distribution, from Debian version 5 to version 6, otherwise known of Debian “Lenny” to “Squeeze”. The following is a step-by-step guide for Network Presence customers on upgrading their … Continue reading →

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Installing Squirrelmail to CentOS

Posted on June 5, 2011 by richard

Squirrelmail is a simple PHP based Webmail capability that’s very easy to install on CentOS Linux. Installing Squirrelmail is as easy as running the following command as root on your CentOS system: yum -y install squirrelmail Because Squirrelmail is included … Continue reading →

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Get 20%+ more RAM on our Canberra VPS Hosting

Posted on June 3, 2011 by richard

For the next few weeks we’re deploying customer VPS in Canberra, on our new Canbarran hardware, which includes fast RAID6 disk arrays, as well as lots of fast RAM & CPU, meaning that Canberra is our “high end computing” POP. … Continue reading →

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Sydney Full, but Canberran VPS Screamers online!

Posted on June 3, 2011 by richard

We’ve filled our Sydney VPS Hosting resources after a month of solid orders, which is fantastic for Network Presence & we’ve overflowed into our new Canberran POP to keep provisioning “Big Data” VPS connected to Australia’s best networks. Canberra is … Continue reading →

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Using parted on > 2TB drives to create new partitions for LVM

Posted on June 3, 2011 by richard

On your Linux based hardware with “large” disks (>> 2TB drives to Linux) you may want to use the GNU ‘parted’ disk partition utility to create storage that’s available to the kernel & LVM. As root run ‘parted /dev/sdX’ where … Continue reading →

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SugarCRM & 8centSMS integration

Posted on June 1, 2011 by richard

One of our co-workers has recently created a SugarCMS module which allows for the sending of SMS messages from within SugarCRM, like emails are easily sent from within Sugar. So if you’re looking for such integration of SMS functionality from … Continue reading →

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Big Data Friendly & Capable Hosting in Australia

Posted on May 31, 2011 by richard

We love hosting & serving data, so some months ago we created the 1TB “Big Data Storage” VPS Appliance (managed VPS) Plan, but Internet time moves quick, so we’ve now introduced 5TB and 10TB Storage Appliance VPS Plans! Further, we’re … Continue reading →

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Installing Webmin to a CentOS VPS

Posted on May 30, 2011 by richard

Installing Webmin control panel for your CentOS based Linux VPS is very easy, just a few steps done as follows, logged in as ‘root’ on your VPS: 1) Create the file /etc/yum.repos.d/webmin.repo with the contents: [Webmin] name=Webmin Distribution Neutral #baseurl=http://download.webmin.com/download/yum … Continue reading →

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Great Australian Peering

Posted on May 27, 2011 by richard

It was nearly a year ago that I started to mention our “Big Peering” efforts and we’re now very happy with where we’ve got this, which is that our networks are available to, and our customers are able to select … Continue reading →

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