How to Remove Your Google Sear…

Posted on February 22, 2012 by richard

How to Remove Your Google Search History Before Google’s New Privacy Policy Takes Effect https://t.co/iULmycZu #NetPres

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At an Australian Uni or within CSIRO & need Compute Resources?

Posted on February 22, 2012 by richard

Network Presence has a gigabit of peered connectivity in Sydney to all of AARNet‘s fantastic domestic network, across Australia.

As is our network traffic pricing policy, we don’t meter or charge for “Peered Traffic” and thus any data flow to or from AARNet is ‘free traffic’ as far as our billing is concerned, so this means that considerations of network traffic volumes from the point of view of Network Presence billing, can be removed if you’re within AARNet (which is nearly all Australian Universities and includes much of CSIRO and some other Educational Organisations throughout Australia), or servicing customers within AARNet, wrt the use of any of our VPS Plans.

A generalised example of this may be that a Lecturer, Student, Staff or Researcher at their desk within an Australia University or CSIRO Department may need a new Blog online for a project or work, or need 20 CPUs in a Linux host overnight, or any such VPS/VDS need; and they could push data to or from that server at 100Mbps, constantly, and we won’t meter or charge anything extra for that data flow.

Not only is this “deep” connectivity into AARNet (given that we can reach so many Universities and CSIRO departments), but it’s very low latency connectivity to those sites, because we peer with AARNet at high speed centrally from Sydney (where most of Australia’s Internet is hubbed).

So if you have a need to serve content to AARNet end-users, or you’re within AARNet and need some quick computing resources, please feel free to contact us to discuss your requirements and how we can remove ‘network cost’ from the equation.

Regards,
Richard.

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“SOA is successful, so long as…

Posted on February 20, 2012 by richard

“SOA is successful, so long as you don’t call it SOA in essence” – @DavidLinthicum‘s excellent Cloud Computing Podcast http://t.co/YQBvgcDX

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All our VPS Plans include..

Posted on February 20, 2012 by richard

All of our VPS Plans, whether the cheapest sub $10 / month plan, or our premium Appliance & Managed Plans, all include the following services and capabilities, available online or via quick email, sms or call.

– IPv6 subnets (/120)

– Dual IPv4 addresses for all VPS Plans with more IPv4 addresses available upon request, routed via many Peering and multiple redundant Internet “Transit” Links. Note: ‘Value’ VPS Plans only have a single IPv4 address, all other VPS Plans will always include dual IPv4 addresses.

– 100Mbps Network Interface to your VPS Operating System

– Dedicated RAM using Xen Virtualisation technologies and KVM virtualisation is available if required

– 1:1 Network with full IPv4 and IPv6 routing and “all ports open”, with Firewall available if desired

– “Transit only” Network traffic billing, where data sent or received via any of our Peering Links is not metered or billed

– Many faster CPUs for your VPS, with different spec CPUs provided for our different VPS Plan types

– Large Disk allocations, up to Terabytes if you need

– Weekly full disk Backups of your VPS

– Text Console access and VNC Console access to your VPS

– Simple online web based VPS Management and API included, with OpenStack or Eucalyptus platforms available upon request

– High Uptime via Monthly SLA at 99.95% (excluding Scheduled Downtime/Works) with monthly discounts if breached, which vary depending on your VPS Plan & we’re happy to negotiate on SLAs to suit your uptime requirements.

We believe that all these included features of our VPS Plans makes for a compelling offering which offers great value at any price point, with a focus on high-end performance combined with excellent value for money.

Please feel free to contact us with any enquiries on our VPS Plans or for a custom quote on your Cloud or VPS hosting requirements.

Regards,
Richard.

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Weekly Tweets for 2012-02-19

Posted on February 19, 2012 by richard

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Excellent breakdown of 4.5Gbps…

Posted on February 19, 2012 by richard

Excellent breakdown of 4.5Gbps peak hosting costs in the US “Which is less expensive: Amazon or self-hosted?” http://t.co/xP0U4x9M #NetPres

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Australian mirror of the Raspb…

Posted on February 18, 2012 by richard

Australian mirror of the RaspberryPi’s recent Debian 6 image at ftp://ftp.netpres.com.au/pub/debian6-17-02-2012.zip #NetPres more RPi soon..

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Price Drop on Over-quota Bandwidth Usage

Posted on February 18, 2012 by richard

We’ve deployed significant Internet connectivity upgrades over the last couple of months (more links, more redundancy as well as more capacity) and we can now pass this on to customers in the form of a drop in our “Over-Quote Bandwidth Usage” fee, which was 44 cents inc GST (AU$) and is now 25 cents per GigaByte inc GST.

What’s more, we only consider your ‘highest data usage direction’ in charging for network usage, so for example if you have a 200GB monthly network traffic quota on your VPS Plan and you have incoming data usage of 200GB in a month, as well as outgoing data usage of 200GB in the same month, we won’t charge you any over-quota traffic fees for that month.

We believe that our network quotas (on plans which have them) are large anyway, but now any cost to customers of exceeding their network quota is reduced, while at the same time being able to take advantage of our more diverse Internet connectivity available within our network.

Of course, as has been our policy for sometime, we only meter or charge network usage fees on “Transit” traffic and “Peered” data transferred through any of our many domestic Australian Peering Links (gigabits of bandwidth available over multiple Peering Links) is un-metered and un-charged.

Please feel free to contact us with any queries on this price drop for over-quota network traffic usage.

Regards,
Richard.

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Extra CPU for VPS Orders with 1GB of RAM or more

Posted on February 17, 2012 by richard

All our VPS Plans with 1GB of RAM or more already have at least 2 x CPUs (“dual core”) and to celebrate our new VPS hosting platforms coming online, we’re offering a special whereby any VPS Order for a VPS with 1GB or more of RAM, from today onwards (February 18th), will be provisioned with an additional CPU ‘core’ versus what’s listed in the relevant VPS Plan.

So for example, if you order our ‘Best Price 1GB RAM VPS‘ Plan you’ll get 3 x CPUs provisioned for your VPS, instead of the listed 2 x CPUs.

Of course, all our listed VPS Plans are provisioned with dedicated system resources using the Xen virtualisation technology, providing the best performance available.

We’ll confirm this “Extra CPU” when your Order is provisioned as well.

Please contact us if you have any queries on this special offer.

Regards,
Richard.

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Double your RAM for VPS Orders with 500MB of RAM or more

Posted on February 16, 2012 by richard

To celebrate our new VPS hosting platforms coming online, we’re offering a special whereby any VPS Order for a VPS with 500MB (1/2 GB) or more of RAM, from today onwards (February 17th), will be provisioned with twice the listed RAM from the relevant online VPS Plan.

Of course, all our listed VPS Plans are provisioned with dedicated system resources using the Xen virtualisation technology, providing the best performance available.

We’ll confirm this “double your RAM” when your Order is provisioned as well.

Please contact us if you have any queries on this special offer.

Regards,
Richard.

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