Tag Archives: Appliance

Internet Infrastructure for Australian Web/IT&C Startups

Posted on December 28, 2011 by richard

This last week of December (between Christmas and New Years) has always been great for meeting in a more social context with other v.hard working self-employed / entrepreneurial or startup business owners, that I may not get to see much … Continue reading →

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Varnish Web Load Balancer Appliance VPS

Posted on November 20, 2011 by richard

We’ve done this process many times now and we know what it takes to put a Varnish Web Load Balancer in-front of a “heavy” or high hit rate web site. As such we’ve now updated our Managed VPS Appliance Plan … Continue reading →

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Tomcat VPS Appliance (Managed V…

Posted on November 1, 2011 by richard

Tomcat VPS Appliance (Managed VPS with install/setup & support) at Network Presence http://t.co/hOcY1kJ0 #NetPres

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Added Torrus to Freeside for ‘bandwidth’ Billing

Posted on September 17, 2011 by richard

We’ve been working with a few instances of our Freeside Appliance VPS & been able to recently install & configure through to billing & usage, customers in Freeside that are billed by their ‘bandwidth’ (eg: Megabits per Second) usage. This … Continue reading →

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Bringing up a Diaspora “Pod”

Posted on September 9, 2011 by richard

We’re working through the technical requirements & installation process of deploying a Diaspora Pod within Network Presence. Once we’ve done this, we’ll create a Diaspora ‘Appliance’ VPS for customers to deploy should they wish. I’ll update this post’s comments with … Continue reading →

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The Ruby on Rails 3 dev enviro…

Posted on August 26, 2011 by richard

The Ruby on Rails 3 dev environment installed in Ch 1 of http://t.co/3iy3dQh is avail through our RoR Appliance VPS at http://t.co/nNzfq6V

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Running hordes of clustered Tomcats

Posted on August 5, 2011 by richard

I’ve ordered ‘the book’ on Tomcat 6 from Amazon, to “tick all the boxes” on a large production Tomcat cluster that I’m running. I’ve seen some amazing Tomcat performance, most good, some bad and made the config updates req’d to … Continue reading →

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Understanding Cassandra’s Datamodel

Posted on August 3, 2011 by richard

I’ve done a bit of development around Cassandra this year, after having read the book on it (http://www.amazon.com/Cassandra-Definitive-Guide-Eben-Hewitt/dp/1449390412/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312331422&sr=8-1) and then using it to store our NetFlow data for a week or so earlier in 2011. So I found this “grok … Continue reading →

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Freeside Online Billing & Accounting VPS

Posted on July 28, 2011 by richard

Freeside is an online billing and accounting system for ISPs and other online businesses. We’ve created a “VPS Appliance” Plan which provides you with a customised but fully installed & operational Freeside system! This was an “interesting” VPS build, requiring … Continue reading →

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Rolling out Smokeping & Nagios nodes across our Network & out to the Internet

Posted on July 6, 2011 by richard

After a customer had a unique network problem, I’ve created & deployed a few instances in each of our POPs of a “Smokeping & Nagios” Appliance VPS, and this VPS is now available as a service from Network Presence too. … Continue reading →

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