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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Rackspace offsite backup
Is it necessary to do offsite backups when you're on Rackspace?
Rackspace does daily image backups of the server, which does backups every half hour. If the server is hacked, and all backups are removed, there'd still be the image backup. Then…
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Conserver Space by Putting PDU and Cisco 3500XL Switch on Same U?
Is it possible to have two appliances on 1U in a Rack. Both the PDU and the Cisco switch are very short, I was wondering if it is doable to have one on the front and one on the back. I just purchased a quarter rack and having the extra space could…
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Understanding generally how emails are received / sent (dns records)
So I registered a domain name through google, and I'm going to set up a small server through rackspace's cloud servers.
I'd prefer to keep my email going to google apps, rather than have to have my cloud server handle the mail.
There's a line in my…
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Rackspace Cloud Sites API (Not Cloud Servers)
I'm looking for a way to pull data from my Rackspace Cloud SITES account. The data I want to pull is bandwidth, diskspace, and compute cycles (all available from control panel). I'd like to set up my own warning system, to be notified if I'm close…
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Recommend a Rackspace Cloud Server API Language Binding?
Rackspace publishes only a hard-to-use HTTP and JSON/XML based "API" (they call it an API but it's really a non-standard Web Service without a WSDL).
There are dozens of open-source language bindings to choose from. I have tried three of them so far…
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In Rackspace cloud, it is true that a 2GB server is faster than the default 256MB server?
For example...when I do string.find("..."), will it be faster because the CPU is allocated more?
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Rackspace Cloud servers backing up
Is there anyway to backup an image of a rackspace cloud server? something thats easy to do instead of running scripts backing up each db and fs.
This seems like something easy to do on EC2 and impossible to do on rackspace cloud.
Also i know…
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Rackspace: installing mail and web server applications on the same server
I've set up a web server on a Rackspace cloud server, and that is running fine and doing everything I need.
Now I am trying to figure out how to add the ability to send and receive e-mail. I've found a bunch of great tutorials on "how to set up a…
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Server CPU issues, msiexev.exe a culprit?
Running a cloud server on Rackspace: Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 (4 GB Standard Instance)
It hosts sql server, IIS, and serves our application to users. It has been fine for months/years. Last night through this morning, it was "jammed" at 100% cpu…
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Cannot access server on port different than 80
I'm hosting a server on Rackspace. Generally I have some domain name that i redirect to my ip and use nginx for the internal routing. This is my default configuration:
server {
listen MY_IP:80;
server_name MY_DOMAIN.com;
location / {
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What's the most reliable way to determine an OpenStack host's own UUID?
I would like to be able to reliably determine the UUID associated with an OpenStack guest from within the guest. A klugey way to do it would be something like:
# nova show `hostname` | grep ' id '
| id |…
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Shellshock protection in Rackspace Ubuntu
I am trying to update my Ubuntu 13.10 servers in Rackspace to avoid Shellshock bug, but it is not working. Here is what I am doing:
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade bash
it says:
bash is already the newest version.
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Nginx auth behind Rackspace Load Balancer
I cannot seem to get Nginx basic auth working from behind a Rackspace cloud balancer.
First I am using this code (it is also using real IP module here which was one of the mannny solutions I tried) within my nginx.conf:
http {
set_real_ip_from…
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Reduce outgoing bandwidth in ffmpeg
I have a server in Rackspace with some ffmpeg processes listening to audio streaming. Off course when listening to streamings the incoming network traffic is high, and this is ok. But I noticed that there is also a considerable outgoing network…
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Rackspace Cloud Server / DB - getaddrinfo failed
I recently migrated my MySQL instance from my debian server to a cloud database server at rackspace. A couple times of day since then, I notice in the log files that we have the following error:
PHP Warning: mysql_connect(): [2002]…
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