Category Archives: Sales

DDOS Mitigation Rollout & Deployment

Posted on December 30, 2014 by richard

For months now we’ve been providing DDOS Mitigation services to customers across our network and particularly on our Gaming Network. This will continue and in an enhanced mode with our own US based connectivity feeding into our DDOS routers etc.. … Continue reading →

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Need help with AWS/EC2 Cloud use?

Posted on December 19, 2014 by richard

Though we run competing infrastructure and services ourselves, we know that some customers and businesses must (for various valid reasons) run their Servers or Cloud in Amazon Web Service (AWS or EC2) for their VPS requirements. That said, AWS can … Continue reading →

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How to install PHP 5.4 on CentOS 6

Posted on December 11, 2014 by richard

First to get PHP 5.4 on CentOS 6 you need to install and enable the EPEL and Remi 3rd party Software Repositories with these commands as root from a shell: wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm wget http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm rpm -Uvh remi-release-6*.rpm epel-release-6*.rpm Then run … Continue reading →

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Data Centre, Network & POP Maintenance Notice – Wed evening & Thu morning, December 17th/18th 2014

Posted on November 29, 2014 by richard

During the evening of Wednesday, December 17th from 11pm that night (through to 7am on Thursday morning) we will be performing upgrades to network infrastructure (routers, switches & other network-based infrastructure) and selected hosting server platforms of Network Presence in … Continue reading →

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New Web & API VPS Management capabilities online

Posted on November 22, 2014 by richard

We’ve recently released a number of updates to our online web-based VPS Management systems, continuing our in-house project to update the capabilities (more features and functionality), as well as the page visuals/layout (icon use, etc), of these web interfaces of … Continue reading →

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Using GECOS & PAM for custom umask settings, incl via Chroot SFTP

Posted on October 14, 2014 by richard

The PAM module “pam_umask” (installed by default in latest Debian Linux) is very useful for setting user-by-user umask permissions that even work in the constrained/restrictive (for settings) “SFTP Chroot” environment. The chroot environment of SFTP as provided by SSH is … Continue reading →

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We’ve updated our Varnish Appliance VPS for Varnis…

Posted on September 19, 2014 by richard

We’ve updated our Varnish Appliance VPS for Varnish 4 on latest CentOS 6. Fully managed Varnish Web Cache/Proxy VPS. networkpresence.com.au/hosting/applia…

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More Internet Connectivity in Sydney

Posted on September 19, 2014 by richard

Busy times! Network Presence has recently put into production more International Internet Connectivity (Transit), which includes a number of new features, notably some real-time packet filtering that removes many common “Attacks” sent to IP Addresses that occur on the modern … Continue reading →

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Quick Android VPN Client Setup How To

Posted on September 5, 2014 by richard

This quickly describes how to setup the Android L2TP/IPSec VPN client. On your Android screen, go to: Settings -> Wireless & Networks -> VPN Settings Select Add VPN – > Add L2TP/IPSec PSK VPN In the Add VPN Settings, enter: … Continue reading →

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More KVM SSD Nodes coming online in Sydney

Posted on July 14, 2014 by richard

Our KVM SSD VPS Plans are popular and we’re deploying another batch of VPS Hosting Platforms (Nodes) to service this pipeline of VPS orders. The first of these new KVM based Virtualisation Nodes with SSD storage is coming online later … Continue reading →

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