Category Archives: Network Presence

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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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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