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Bootstrap access on rackspace Windows instance

I am currently using rackspace cloud servers with ubuntu images, and they are mostly provisioned using fabric (a python based to to automate commands over SSH). Now I would also like to start testing my software on windows. How would I go about…
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issues getting apache to serve phpmyadmin from subdomain

After years of using managed servers I'm finally getting my feet wet with setting up a webserver (using rackspace cloud). Here is how I have things setup: Server A (hosted with servint.com, manages DNS for example.com) Server B (rackspace cloud…
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Rackspace Linux Server Crashing

I recently made the move to The Cloud from a bare metal server for personal use and I couldn't be happier. Except for one thing: My server crashes about once a week. Rackspace has been really great and extremely helpful and I wish to stay with them…
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Rackspace cloud recomendations

What tools do you use to help you manage your cloud, specially with rackspace cloud? Things like Provisioning, Monitoring, Autoscaling, Alerting etc... I'm just a developer, and for a little while I'm on devops duty. Here is some background…
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How to migrate an AWS EC2 Instance to Rackspace cloud server?

I have a m1.large Debian based server on EU-West. Recently due to some changes in organization's policies we are to move to Rackspace. How would i move an AWS EC2 EU-West Debian Instance to Rackspace? Unfortunately it wasn't setup by me so i don't…
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Using AutoMySQLBackup on Rackspace Cloud

Since Rackspace Cloud only allows FTP access it makes using AutoMySQLBackup a little trickier, and while it is at least creating DB dumps I get errors in the backup log: ###### WARNING ###### Errors reported during AutoMySQLBackup execution.. Backup…
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What alternatives to 'find' are there which will work in a cron environment in the rackspace cloud?

I am writing a shell script to run a mysql backup as a cron job and am hitting an issue with the find command not being supported in the rackspace cloud sites cron environment. Any attempt to use the find command gives: /usr/bin/find: Permission…
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Is it sufficient to backup entire server - MySQL included?

I want a complete backup of my server. It's CentOS 5. My thoughts: I can literally take every single file on the server and back it up, and I'll have a backup of everything. Server config, my PHP files, MySQL DB, EVERYTHING... is this an accurate…
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How does one configure networking on OpenStack?

I've been playing with Openstack, but I can't get the networking to function correctly. I'm just trying to get a single server going. I can bring up instances, but they get stuck at the BIOS loading screen (which I can see from VNC), and the log…
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Rackspace Cloud Server DNS Add SPF Records

I've setup my new LAMP server on Rackspace Cloud and the Basic A, C and MX DNS setup is no problem. I need to add an SPF record for a project I am migrating over to this new server that allows emails from a 3rd party server and I can't seem to…
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Rackspace Cloud Files - limiting possible connections

We have a plan to create a new section to our website - one that will feature HTML5 video. During the initial tests we've done, HD video encoded with Zencoder and stored on Rackspace Cloud Files and delivered by their CDN works really well, really…
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knife server create- finding lists of flavors

I'm new to Chef and I think I'm missing something in reading the docs. I want to create servers using knife server create (options) but can't seem to find fully complete documentation on the options. Specifically, how do I find a mapping of server…
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Anyone have real world experience with Rackspace Cloud Sites at high scale?

I have a pure web service application layer using .NET. I was originally planning to use Amazon EC2, but have recently been evaluating Rackspace Cloud Sites as a potential solution. The app uses Amazon SimpleDB as the database layer. As a test, I…
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Keeping rackspace vserver alive

It appears to me that rackspace somehow freezes cloud VMs after some idle time. This means the first page request to a php page takes much longer to respond than the subsequent requests. I am actually querying a machine with wget from a different…
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Is it possible to have bandwidth or transfer caps with Linux on Rackspace Cloud?

I just set up a virtual Ubuntu 10.04 server with Rackspace Cloud. Is it possible to set a limit on the amount of data transferred within a given length of time? Ideally I would get an email notice when a spike occurs. The reason I want this is…
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