Category Archives: Network Presence

Securing /tmp & other Linux Webhost “tightening” measures

Posted on May 26, 2011 by richard

As per a post in our Forums, we’ve recently outlined how to get your Linux system a separate /tmp filesystem, which won’t allow executables and has other values to keep ‘nefarious’ content out of /tmp In this post we outline … Continue reading →

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Old School way of viewing Unix Man pages

Posted on May 25, 2011 by richard

“nroff -man /path/to/manpage.man | more”. ie: they’re just nroff formatted text files. The files are often gzip compressed on disk nowadays, so on Linux, the command pipeline to (say) the ls command’s man page from a shell prompt is: zcat … Continue reading →

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Information on how to use our iOS IPSEC VPN service

Posted on May 25, 2011 by richard

Today we released our “iOS IPSEC VPN in the US” product, which provides an iPhone/iPad compatible IPSEC VPN service that gives Internet access through the VPN. ie: A fully encrypted Virtual Private Network, from your iPhone or iPad through to … Continue reading →

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Installing Mediawiki to CentOS 5.x VPS

Posted on May 22, 2011 by richard

Create the file /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo with the following contents: [atrpms] name=EL5 $releasever – $basearch – ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/el$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms gpgcheck=1 Then run yum search mediawiki to see that you’ve got the ATrpms Repo! From there it’s just yum install mediawiki

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We care about Backups

Posted on May 22, 2011 by richard

I’ve spent a good amount of time this month making sure that VPS/VDS Backups are stored on separate physical server chassis for most customer servers! This means that should a “complete hardware failure” occur (rare, but a failure mode that’s … Continue reading →

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It’s 2011 & we prefer Citrix Xen based Virtualisation

Posted on May 22, 2011 by richard

You’d think that the 2nd or 3rd player in Virtualisation / underlying cloud computing technology would be doing better in getting “press” about the value of its virtualisation performance & capabilities. So in this context, Citrix’ Xen Virtualisation is a … Continue reading →

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Canberra POP online!

Posted on May 21, 2011 by richard

I’m pleased to say that after 10 years away, I have servers and high-speed connectivity online at a Data Centre in Canberra, with connectivity to TransAct’s network itself coming up soon, but our “big fat” servers online now! These Canberran … Continue reading →

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Reverse DNS available for any & all IPv4 & IPv6 addresses for customers

Posted on May 18, 2011 by richard

Please don’t forget that all customer services have available “Reverse DNS” available, where we can load to our authoritative name servers any hostname you’d like the Internet to see in lookups against your assigned IP addresses, whether the IP addresses … Continue reading →

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Additional IPv4 Addresses available to customer VPS/VDS

Posted on May 18, 2011 by richard

For many years now we’ve been providing 2 x IPv4 address for each & every customer VPS or VDS. But additional IPv4 addresses are also available, at the charge rate of $1 / month per IPv4 address (over the default … Continue reading →

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2 x IPv4 & an IPv6 /120 for every Australian VPS!

Posted on May 18, 2011 by richard

For many years now we’ve been providing 2 x IPv4 & (at least) 2 x IPv6 IP addresses to each Australian based VPS/VDS, but now we’re adding a lot more IPv6 addresses to the allocation for each customer’s VPS/VDS, in … Continue reading →

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