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CentOS 7 Legacy Repos

Posted on March 12, 2025 by richard

To get yum working again in your old CentOS 7 Linux host, over-write your existing CentOS 7 Linux Repositories with the files from the git repo listed, via the following: cd /etc/ ; git clone https://github.com/tkne/centos-7-repo.git yum.repos.d

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Continue to get X11 through sudo use

Posted on February 16, 2025 by richard

Execute the following command to retrieve your display and allow X11 clients to connect back to your X11 display that made the SSH connection into the remote host running the X11 client. eg: firefox xauth add $(xauth -f ~YOURUSERNAME/.Xauthority list|tail … Continue reading →

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OpenVAS install on CentOS/RHEL 9

Posted on December 5, 2024 by richard

Our CentOS 9 Image works with the following to provide a working OpenVAS install. Login to your CentOS 9 VPS & become the root user and run the following commands: dnf upgrade -ydnf -y install wgetdnf config-manager –set-enabled crbdnf install … Continue reading →

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Sydney Data Centre increases in costs by 5% every year

Posted on November 4, 2024 by richard

’tis the season for multi-national companies to be raising their billing rates to Australians. This time its our Sydney Data Centre, Equinix, increasing their costs to us by 5% from January, as is their contracted right. As per our other … Continue reading →

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Windows & cPanel Licensing increases in cost by 10% every year

Posted on October 18, 2024 by richard

A note that Microsoft and cPanel increase their licensing costs to us by 10% every year around this time. But because we use Paypal Subscriptions in our web based ordering systems, we can’t pass those cost increases on to our … Continue reading →

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It’s expensive to survive fibre outages in Sydney

Posted on October 9, 2024 by richard

Today something which we’ve planned against and operated to survive for nearly a decade occurred. At 11am on a Wednesday an Internet link via fibre cable goes down, hard. The linked post from our Operations site details it, but I … Continue reading →

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MikroTik VPS Image CHR 7 Updated

Posted on October 5, 2024 by richard

We’ve updated our MikroTIk Router VPS image to their stable long-term support version 7.16 You can select this in our VPS Management pages for VPS reimage.

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MikroTik VPS Image CHR 6 Updated

Posted on September 27, 2024 by richard

We’ve updated our MikroTIk Router VPS image to their stable long-term support version 6.49.13 You can select this in our VPS Management pages for VPS reimage.

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Windows VPS available through our Shop site

Posted on August 14, 2024 by richard

We’ve updated the process of Windows based VPS (Windows 10 Pro or Windows Server 2019) ordering and provisioning. It still needs our manual attention, but that’s intentional so that there’s some checks on the orders for these types of VPS. … Continue reading →

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CentOS 9 Template Image updated & released

Posted on July 19, 2024 by richard

We’ve released an updated CentOS 9 templated OS image and it’s now available for all customers to Reimage/Reinstall their VPS at networkpresence.com.au

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