Monthly Archives: May 2011

I think that this is good advi…

Posted on May 24, 2011 by richard

I think that this is good advice, “Why Everyone Should Work in Sales – at Least for a While” http://is.gd/aZLAeY #NetPres

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I enjoyed @Stilgherrian’s late…

Posted on May 24, 2011 by richard

I enjoyed @Stilgherrian‘s latest Patch Monday podcast with @AARnet‘s Geoff Huston discussing route integrity & IT secl! http://is.gd/1NSwn1

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iPhone/iPad IPSEC encrypted VP…

Posted on May 24, 2011 by richard

iPhone/iPad IPSEC encrypted VPN providing full Internet access via mid-west USA for $8/month! http://netpr.es/iosusvpn #NetPres #VPN

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“Are you a technical person?” …

Posted on May 23, 2011 by richard

“Are you a technical person?” http://is.gd/qyia93 aka “Can he lead a normal life? No, he’ll be an Engineer.” http://is.gd/vCtLtv #NetPres

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Tweets for 2011-05-23

Posted on May 23, 2011 by richard

Our new 'Best Price' 1.5GB RAM VPS has dual "fat'n'fast" CPUs too, with its 200GB of Disk & fast 'Net! http://netpr.es/bestprice15g #NetPres # 1.5GB of fast RAM Xen VPS with 200GB of Disk & 300GB of Transit Data / month. … 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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Our new ‘Best Price’ 1.5GB RAM…

Posted on May 22, 2011 by richard

Our new ‘Best Price’ 1.5GB RAM VPS has dual “fat’n’fast” CPUs too, with its 200GB of Disk & fast ‘Net! http://netpr.es/bestprice15g #NetPres

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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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1.5GB of fast RAM Xen VPS with…

Posted on May 22, 2011 by richard

1.5GB of fast RAM Xen VPS with 200GB of Disk & 300GB of Transit Data / month. Our “Best Price 1.5GB” VPS Plan http://netpr.es/bestprice15g

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