Questions tagged [rackspace-cloud]

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Apache stopped accepting external requests after restart

I'm hosting a clients wordpress site on a CentOS 7 server, with apache 2.4.6, hosted behind a cloudflare proxy. I set everything up about 8 months ago, and it has been running fine ever since. At arround 5:30 this morning the website went down,…
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Rackspace Cloud Server built from base Windows 2012 R2 Image is Rebooting Unexpectedly

I've recently spun up several new Windows 2012 R2 cloud servers on Rackspace, using their base Windows 2012 R2 image (without SQL server), and in each case the servers suffer from random/unexpected reboots. There are certain actions that can…
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Rackspace cloud loadbalancer

I have a website and related services running under a Rackspace's Cloud Load Balancer. In my DNS setting I have pointed my domain (say example.com) to the IP of this load balancer and it works fine. The problem am facing is that someone has pointed…
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CoreOS: Inject a real private IP in etcd2 cloud-config

I have three networks on Rackspace: Public network Service network 10.181.XXX.XXX (they call it a private network sometimes but it is not private per-se, it is datacenter-wide private so their tenants may share it) A real private network of…
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In a LAMP stack, what are some obvious ways to utilize ephemeral SSD storage?

Here I'm talking about cloud servers (from any vendor) which feature some amount of ephemeral SSD storage. When working with standard images, by default this ephemeral SSD storage is wasted and not utilized. When deploying a LAMP stack onto such…
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How to reduce snapshot size

I'm taking a snapshot of a server running in rackspace each day and initially it was 1GB, then around 25GB when actual disk space used was that amount. I then moved data from the boot partition to block storage and the disk space used is now only…
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Linux 'df' command not showing root filesystem?

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 at Rackspace. What could cause the root fs to not appear here? # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on none 4 0 4 0% /sys/fs/cgroup udev 2021824 12 …
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How does one test DNS performance on their webhost vs. a 3rd party dedicated service?

I have been hosting my dns with rackspace for years, formerly slicehost but I have been looking into a 3rd part host, as a result of running various speed tests, such as tools.pingdom.com to test the front end. I typically get ~75ms from dallas on…
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HTTPS health monitoring on rackspace cloud load balancer

I was using rackspace cloud load balancer to switch between two of my nodes. It was basically a active-passive setup in which the switch would take place in case primary node fails the http health monitoring. Everthing was working fine till I was…
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Why would PHPMyAdmin connections fail when connections from the same server with the same credentials succeed?

I have a site hosted on Rackspace Cloud. It runs Joomla 2.5, some test scripts, and PHPMyAdmin 4.1.6. Joomla runs off a database hosted in Rackspace Cloud. The host is mysql50-[redacted].wc2.dfw1.stabletransit.com I am able to take Joomla's settings…
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Backup files served on a cdn

I am thinking about using a CDN to serve my static files, rackspace cloud files to be exact. I am wondering is it normal to backup these files? Is there even a way to back them up?
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Varnish caching layer vs load balancer

We have around 10-15 different websites which at the moment are hosted on two Rackspace cloud servers with 4GB RAM. These two servers are totally independent of each other, we randomly choose a server for each new site. We've recently launched a…
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Why does my load balancer add the header "Via 1.1 localhost.localdomain"

My load balancer (a Rackspace Cloud Load Balancer instance) adds the Via header with these values: Via 1.1 localhost.localdomain What does this mean and is it harmful? Note: According to another question Google also serves this in production.
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How can I allow traffic only from my load balancer, if the private IP of the load balancer changes all the time?

I'd like to limit (via iptables or otherwise) inbound traffic on 80/443 to traffic coming from my load balancer. I have the public IP (which doesn't change, of course), but the only private IP info I get is a range (I'm using Rackspace's "Cloud Load…
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mod_cluster reports "MEM: Can't read node" and "All workers are in error state" for JBoss AS 7.1.1 cluster

I am trying to configure a JBoss AS 7.1.1 cluster in domain mode with mod_cluster at the apache2 proxy. All hosts are running Ubuntu and are Rackspace Cloud Servers. My problem is that when I hit my app at http://project.example.com/ I just get a…
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