{"id":7816,"date":"2016-01-29T05:01:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T12:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/?p=7816"},"modified":"2016-01-29T05:01:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T12:01:58","slug":"shutting-down-australian-based-vpn-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/?p=7816","title":{"rendered":"Shutting down Australian based VPN Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During 2015 we added a feature to our VPS Plans being a free VPN for VPS customers (10GB data\/month quota), where customers could ask for or order on our sites a VPN service we&#8217;ve been providing for them in our Sydney Data Centre POP.<\/p>\n<p>But now the new LNP Federal Gov&#8217;t have passed laws requiring a complicated scheme for &#8220;Metadata Retention&#8221; by Australian carriers and CSPs.<\/p>\n<p>This domestic VPN is something Network Presence would need to retain req&#8217;d metadata for\/about and given it&#8217;s a free value-add to our VPS Plans (since mid 2015), we&#8217;re not going to incur the large (Gov&#8217;t mandated) cost for this VPN service in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll contact the few customers affected by this by email directly and offer options and other information to help them move off this VPN service before it&#8217;s soon decommissioned.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<br \/>\nRichard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2015 we added a feature to our VPS Plans being a free VPN for VPS customers (10GB data\/month quota), where customers could ask for or order on our sites a VPN service we&#8217;ve been providing for them in our &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/?p=7816\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-7816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-presence","tag-vpn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7818,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7816\/revisions\/7818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.networkpresence.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}