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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What services offer the equivalent functionality of Rackspace Cloud Sites (ASP .NET/MVC/SQL Server specifically)?
I'm basically looking for auto-scaling front ends (MS MVC/ASP.NET) and DB (SQL Server). Today, we are using Rackspace (formerly Mosso) for this, but I'm not very pleased with the performance we are seeing and they don't seem to be improving the…
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Only receiving one document at a time from new web server
We're trying to move our internal ticketing system from a Microsoft Small Business Server in the server closet to a Rackspace Cloud Server. The install is Fedora 11 LAMP, and should be default out of the box, except for the vhosts appended to the…
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Virtualmin install failing on Rackspace Debian 5.0
Running the install.sh script as-is from Virtualmin (GPL version), I get a dovecot error after about 5.5mins of installation.
I have tried this on several versions of the server - same error whether or not I run apt-get update +/- apt-get upgrade…
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Rackspace yum install git cURL 443 Connection refused
Trying to install git in a RHEL Rackspace Dedicated Server, but am getting the following after typing in this command: yum install git
Curl error (7): Couldn't connect to server…
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How do I not lose my Rackspace emails when I use WordPress DNS?
I use Rackspace for my email currently and would like for WordPress to host my website. When I pointed the DNS to WP, I lost my emails in Rackspace. When I pointed the DNS back to where it was previously, my emails came back. How do I use WP as my…
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Rackspace Cloud API
I am creating bash script to store backup files on Rackspace (mosso). For now i am done with uploading and deleting files from containers.
Next step is to remove files older than two weeks (remove from container).
The questions is how to get…
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With cloud servers who don't offer reassignable public IP addresses, how can I instantly have a domain name switch to a different instance?
AWS offers Elastic IP Addresses, which are great for switching website domains to a new instance/stack without having to wait for DNS changes to propagate.
Some cloud service providers (e.g., Rackspace) do not offer such reassigning to their public…
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Is It safe to delete all files/directories from /tmp folder on ubuntu 14.04 rackspace server?
I am getting error unable to connect with mysql. when I googled I found It's because of size. It's showing /tmp 100% used. so can I completely remove all files from/tmp folder ?
#df -m /tmp
Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted…
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Rackspace: Temporary streaming URL to a file in the cloud files
The question is simple: How to create a temporary streaming URL to a files in the Rackspace cloud files. URL is needed streaming.
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What type of rack is used to host Netgear and cisco routers and switches?
I'm a Masters student doing a project on how to design and deploy networks in an industry environment.
Theoretically, I have 6 Netgear ProSafe fs750 switches and a Cisco 3750 24T-S switch and want to put them in a rack. Cost is a constraint because…
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Prevent spoofing - SPF, DKIM, DMARC in place
I am just a developer handling this issue for our small organization, so apologies in advance if I have missed anything obvious.
We use Rackspace Cloud as our email provider. Our emails started going to spam folders for our customers in recent…
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How Do I Set Reverse DNS for Rackspace Next Generation Cloud Servers?
The dashboard for Rackspace's next generation of servers doesn't have an option to set the reverse DNS for a cloud server. You have to use the Rackspace Cloud API. How do I use the API to set up the reverse DNS for my server?
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Where is the Linux source kept in a Rackspace Gentoo VPS?
I'm emerging udev and it complains it couldn't find the kernel sources under /usr/src/linux (there's nothing inside /usr/src/ indeed). As a result, it tries to take the version from the currently running kernel and messes up thinking it's an older…
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how to restore cloud site on rackspace from files container
I have backed up my cloud site using http://www.zipitbackup.com/. It creates a backup file in Cloud sites/Container . Now i need to restore my site using this backup file.
I don't find documentation on how can i restore my site from the…
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Do I really need to use SSH keys for security?
I got sick of my shared hosting on GoDaddy, so I signed up for a Cloud Server on Rackspace. A friend walked me through installing apache, and locking down root. He also advised me to disable password login and use SSH keys. So I did.
Said friend…
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