CentOS 5.10 is released! “All upstream repositorie…

Posted on October 19, 2013 by richard

CentOS 5.10 is released! “All upstream repositories have been combined into one” lists.centos.org/pipermail/cent…

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“concurrent, parallelizing database with an actor…

Posted on October 19, 2013 by richard

“concurrent, parallelizing database with an actor system on top of lightweight threads gives several huge advantages” blog.paralleluniverse.co/post/642107699…

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We’ve been using OpenStack “Havana” release for a…

Posted on October 18, 2013 by richard

We’ve been using OpenStack “Havana” release for a while, but it’s now officially released. lists.openstack.org/pipermail/open… #NetPres

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Ubuntu 13.10 is officially released as of today. G…

Posted on October 17, 2013 by richard

Ubuntu 13.10 is officially released as of today. Great to see. releases.ubuntu.com/saucy/

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How to install Fantastico to your cPanel VPS. http…

Posted on October 16, 2013 by richard

How to install Fantastico to your cPanel VPS. blog.networkpresence.co/?p=1679 #NetPres customers with cPanel VPS can contact us for this too.

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Short-notice of Fibre Works in Sydney on Thu night/Fri morning (Oct 17th/18th 2013)

Posted on October 15, 2013 by richard

As mentioned recently, we have physical separate fibre paths to the Internet in Sydney, and we’ve just been advised that one of those physical fibre paths (close to the Equinix Data Centre in Mascot, Sydney) is going to be cut and re-joined during some roadworks in metro Sydney on this coming Friday night (and into Saturday morning).

The Works Notice is for a 30 minute outage of this fibre occurring between 10pm from Thursday, October 17th and 6am on Friday, October 18th.

Our network should fail-over to solely use our other physical fibre path in Sydney for Internet connectivity and we’ll be monitoring this Telco-based (being an outage advised by the fibre owner) outage during Thursday evening and awaiting it returning to service and being stable.

If there are any relevant issues during this supplier outage, we’ll post tweets to our Ops twitter feed at https://twitter.com/netpresops

FYI,
Richard.

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Data Centre & POP Maintenance Notice – Tues evening & Wed morning, Oct 22nd 2013

Posted on October 15, 2013 by richard

During the evening of Tuesday October 22nd and into the morning of Wednesday October 23rd, we will be performing upgrades to network infrastructure (routers & switches) and selected hosting server platforms of Network Presence in Sydney, Australia.

Customers with services (VPS) on the platforms to be upgraded have already been emailed advisory notices and this is a general notice related to other ancillary upgrades and Infrastructure maintenance being performed during this scheduled window of time.

This Maintenance Window starts from 11pm Sydney time on the evening of Tuesday October 22nd, 2013 through to 6am that Wednesday morning, and I’ll be personally contactable by phone & online during and after these works incase there’s any issues that arise.

This will incur a few (3) short (~5-10 minute) outages to the network connectivity and hosting products of Network Presence in Australia during this off-peak scheduled works period.

Our Engineers will be remaining on-site during Wednesday at our Sydney Data Centre to quickly attend to any issues post-upgrades which may arise.

FYI and regards,
Richard.

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Network Upgrades in October 2013

Posted on October 14, 2013 by richard

In Q2 and Q3 this year we focused on upgrades to the System or Server platforms of Network Presence, which has been very successful and included more rack-space in the Equinix Data Centre in Mascot, Sydney, that has laid the foundations for works underway to upgrade our Network Connectivity, in terms of capacity and capabilities now in Q4 2013.

In October already we’ve already finished activating and integrating a second fibre-based uplink to our primary Internet supplier and started upgrading that 2nd link’s router to ensure it’s able to participate in our in-house SDN system that manages our network. Further, this 2nd fibre uplink uses a different physical path from the Equinix Data Centre to the Internet, using separate metropolitan Sydney fibre paths to get to different upstream routers and networks in Sydney for Internet connectivity. This provides for some ‘deep’ redundancy of our network access out of Equinix itself.

We’ve also started commissioning a 4th uplink and Cisco router into our Sydney network, which provides better connectivity for Colocation customers, as well as further redundancy for our main Sydney POP.

Some of these upgrades require physical work at the Data Centre (new cabling (mostly moving from copper to fibre), more RAM and interfaces for routers, etc) and the first of these works is scheduled for late on the evening of Tuesday, October 22nd and early in the morning of Wednesday, October 23rd and we’ll post a Scheduled Works Notice on this today.

We’ve been able to measure improvements in our network performance over the last week or so since this new capacity and routers came online and I’ll post more about this on-going network infrastructure upgrade project soon.

FYI and regards,
Richard.

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Google extends Bug Bounty program to open-source “…

Posted on October 14, 2013 by richard

Google extends Bug Bounty program to open-source “for core infrastructure network services” & more. scmagazine.com/google-expands… #OSS #NetPres

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Customers wanting beta access to our new VPS Manag…

Posted on October 13, 2013 by richard

Customers wanting beta access to our new VPS Management site, please contact us. netpr.es/contactus #NetPres Work’s ongoing still too.

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