Tag Archives: SysAdmin

We specialise in PHP & Java Application Servers & CMS on Open-Source Platforms

Posted on December 6, 2012 by richard

Whether it’s a Java-based Tomcat, Glassfish, WebSphere, JBoss, Geronimo or a PHP CMS (Joomla, Drupal, WordPress, Magneto, VirtueMart, etc) or a custom hosting system (incl. WHM/cPanel); we know the hosting, system and network requirements of such web content delivery software … Continue reading →

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Apache Tomcat Administration Training Course for 3 days from Monday February 18th 2013

Posted on November 29, 2012 by richard

We’ve confirmed the date and we’re now accepting further bookings for the next Tomcat Administration Training Course that I present here in Adelaide during the week starting February 18th next year. Both Tomcat 6 and the latest Tomcat 7 will … Continue reading →

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Available for Consulting & Contracting on Internet, Linux & Open-Source

Posted on October 4, 2012 by richard

I hear it said that we’re at the ‘business end’ of the calendar year and if you have a need to quickly deploy or “wrap up” some IT Projects involving Open-Source or Linux, then I’m available at short-notice for brief … Continue reading →

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Howto use Intel PRO 1000 PCIe “Bypass” cards in Debian Linux

Posted on September 22, 2012 by richard

For some time Intel has been marketing these “Bypass” Ethernet cards which have a different PCI Device ID which means that the official Intel open-source (Linux, FreeBSD etc) drivers don’t recognise these cards, and I came to find one in … Continue reading →

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Need help virtualizing legacy or physical systems?

Posted on August 31, 2012 by richard

You can get a significant Internet hosting speed increase if you take the filesystems of (say) an old, legacy physical server that may be in-house or in your own datacentre and virtualise it on our high-performance VPS Plans and our … Continue reading →

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Secret Sauce for faster VPS disk activity

Posted on August 23, 2012 by richard

As we posted over 2 years ago, there’s a number of ways to speed up the general operations of a Linux (or Unix/Solaris/FreeBSD) system and one which we use & recommend a lot is to mount filesystems with the “noatime” … Continue reading →

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Adding SSL Certificates and settings to your cPanel VPS

Posted on August 2, 2012 by richard

Assuming you’ve generated your SSL Certificate’s CSR and Key files elsewhere or outside of your cPanel itself, then once you have your purchased official signed Certificate (we use and recommend NameCheap.com Comodo SSL Certs), you can install those SSL files … Continue reading →

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Sydney NAS Online with 4TB

Posted on July 30, 2012 by richard

Some of our customers have multiple VPS online on various seperate hardware platforms at our main Sydney Australia POP at Equinix in Sydney, and could utilise a shared or common network-based disk for greater capabilities and utilisation of their VPS. … Continue reading →

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Install PHP 5.3 and MySQL 5.5 to CentOS 5

Posted on July 29, 2012 by richard

To keep up with the latest versions of PHP and MySQL, CentOS 5 based Linux systems need to install the EPEL and Remi Repositories to get MySQL 5.5 installed to CentOS 5. Commands are (as root): yum install php53-mysql wget … Continue reading →

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More people working at Network Presence

Posted on July 27, 2012 by richard

As per some of our blog’d history, there are now 3 other people working with me (Richard Siggs) to run Network Presence Pty Ltd on a daily and weekly basis. John does ‘customer outreach’ (Sales & Marketing) and over time … Continue reading →

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