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Rackspace is a traditional and cloud hosting company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. They run datacentres in three US states, the UK, and Hong Kong.

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Connection Refused When Trying To Connect To IRCd-Hybrid

I have a Rackspace server running Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, where I have installed an IRCd-Hybrid. I can connect to the IRC server using irssi that was installed on the same machine where the server is, but when I try to access it from my computer at home…
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Any resources for moving/integrating a website onto Rackspace for first time?

I'm writing a web app and would like to use a Rackspace managed solution. My app works on my local computer but I'd like to move it over to the managed cloud environment with Rackspace. I'm just wondering what's in the middle that I need to learn…
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Is a Rackspace Cloud Server right for me?

I have a Dedicated Virtual server plan with Media Temple right now and am looking to switch to a more reliable provider with a better machine. Right now I'm looking at Rackspace's Cloud Server plan, trying to read past the marketing text and see if…
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How to interpret Rackspace server diagnostics?

We've been having some trouble lately with our site timing out during times of high traffic. We're working on a number of things to resolve it. During this process I came across our server diagnostics page on Rackspace, and it has the following…
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mysql with DRBD on rackspace

I am trying to set up a failover secondary MySQL server that is a mirror of my primary MySQL server using DRBD. The problem is that I am on a rackspace cloud server and I need a second partition on both the primary and secondary servers that I will…
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How do I upgrade PHP to 5.3 and MySQL along with it?

I’m running a Rackspace Cloud CentOS 5.5 instance. It shipped with: [root@server ~]# php -v PHP 5.1.6 (cli) (built: Nov 29 2010 16:47:46) Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend…
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Rackspace: optimizing LAMP environment (using memcached)

i recently moved a web app to Rackspace (CentOS). It runs pretty well with 512mb RAM but im sure i will have to upgrade it to 1024mb RAM pretty soon. The bad news, is that the service runs on mobile devices (with 5 minute interval pulls to the…
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Postfix issues sending mail to addresses under domain located on server

I recently installed virtualmin on my nice shiny new rackspace cloud. Everything went seemlessly but I've been having some issues getting emails to send properly. The problem seems to be that the server can not send mail to email addresses where the…
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Whats the best way to get an Amazon EC2 windows server 'joined' to my Rackspace network

We have an EC2 Windows 2008 server and 3 servers hosted at Rackspace (also windows 08). I would like to be able to address the EC2 server as though it were part of our internal Rackspace network. Thus I'm thinking that we should be able to use a…
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Securing a "one purpose" server

I don't know much about securing a server. I've heard of iptables, but I've never used it (maybe that's not what I need?). So right now my goal is to have a main webserver, and a separate database and memcached server (unless you think I should just…
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Internal IP addresses? How do you use them?

I currently use rackspace cloud servers. Here's the part of the FAQ that talks about them: http://cloudservers.rackspacecloud.com/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions#Do_you_offer_internal_IPs.3F So I'm assuming that even aside from the fact that…
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Is using cloud files worth it? (Or any cdn?)

A little about my website: The front page needs to load fast, and it has a background image The website is an online store with lots of product images How much would it help alleviate the server of traffic? Also, AFAIK, cloud files does not offer…
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Rackspace CloudFiles and JungleDisk performance vs The Planet CloudStorage

I am considering using either Rackspace CloudFiles with JungleDisk or The Planet's CloudStorage for a webapp that needs fast read performance to serve very large video files. The application uses some authentication backends that x-forward the…
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Static IP on a cloud computing/hosting provider?

I know Amazon's EC2 does NOT allow true static IP allocation to the virtual machine instances, but i'm wondering if any of the other cloud hosting providers do? I'm trying to find out if Rackspace does, but havent been able to find anything…
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Point root domain to one server and all sub-domains to another server

I have a requirement where I want to point my root domain i.e www.abc.com or abc.com to one server (static website) and *.abc.com to another server (application server) I have bought domain from godaddy, I want godaddy to host my static website i.e…
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