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Plan pricing in NZD, USD, GBP and AUD
Historically all our server prices were denominated in US dollars. We have just updated our plans so that new orders are denominated in currency of the country where the server is located. i.e. NZ-based servers in NZD, Oz-based serves in AUD, and London-based servers in GBP. Typically customers ordering servers in those locations we live…
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Remember to Check Domain Expiration Dates
Today’s post isn’t anything technical; it’s somewhat of a public service announcement instead. Your domain registrar likely emails you when your domain is nearing the end of its life (at least the end of its life in your possession). What if that email is caught in your spam filter or goes to a non-existent address?…
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Quick and easy iptables blocking and firewalling basics
A customer emailed in today had noticed somebody trying to hack or crash his VPS. He tracked it down to one particular IP address but didnt know how to block him. There are several things you can do to block him, the long term solution and better option is probably using a firewall like iptables.…
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Dallas networking improvements
This is a heads up about some networking improvements (at Dallas) we will be making over the weekend. In Dallas we take a network feed from our upstream providers. That feeds into our ‘core’ networking gear. And we distribute it from that core gear to the cabinets we operate in Dallas. The core gear is…
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Debugging broken mail daemons
Getting bounced mail? here let me try and explain a few of the more common problems. Have you added the domain to accept mail? You need to add the domain into the mail server so it knows to accept email for it. If it accepts mail for every domain then its fairly easy for somebody…
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Karmic Koala VPS Images Available
The latest 6 monthly Ubuntu build, Karmic Koala, was released to the public on Oct, 29th. That is now an option when ordering a new VPS or for a fresh install on an existing VPS (contact us if you have questions about retaining your data after the reinstall). If you don’t want to reinstall an…
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32bit or 64bit – Choose Your VPS Kernel
Sometimes we roll out new features in our control panel without announcing them. We usually do this so that we see a trickle of new users initially which helps identify any bugs or missing functionality before the entire userbase starts hammering the new features. :) Selecting your VPS kernel bit-edness (32bit or 64bit) is one…
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apache modules to help keep your system steady
libapache2-mod-bw – bandwidth limiting module This module allows you to limit bandwidth usage on every virtual host or directory or to restrict the number of simultaneous connections. The bandwidth control, for example, can be configured according to the criteria: origin of the connection, file extension, file size or user agent of the client. Example: LoadModule…
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Twitter Competition – Who won?
The randomly chosen main prize of $100 VPS Hosting credit went to a guy called Simon W @simon_w – http://simon.geek.nz/ Simon had been desperate to get away from shared hosting. He couldn’t afford to move to his own VPS for another couple of months, so we really happy that he won. We decided because we…