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 hardware acceleration
I am using a Windows Server 2008 on Rackspace and I need to use some of its Direct3D capabilities (for Microsoft Office extra functionality).
However, I can't because the system reports that I only have a 'Standard VGA adapter' installed.
How should…
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Set up Ubuntu to kill off Apache child processes when memory usage reaches 90%
My situation is following:
We run Magento Professional on a 15Gb ram instance, rackspace.
When running htop, we could see that 'apache2 -k start' keeps spawning more child processes, some of them eats ~900Mb of memory.
When memory is almost used…
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how to backup a cloud site on rackspace cloud with code and database
i have my website hosted on rackspace cloud server . i need to make backup of code + database of my cloud site.
Please give me link of any documentation which suggests steps to perform this or link to alternative method so i can achieve this
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Best way to load balancing between AWS and Rackspace?
I have a SaaS product hosted on AWS and I would like to have the same infrastructure hosted on Rackspace (or any other host) to offer a high availability (eventually load balancing) for my users in case AWS becomes out.
Someone has any tips to do…
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Amazon SES not working from Rackspace Servers
Has anyone encountered a problem where they cannot connect to email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com for SMTP from a Rackspace server? WHen I ping from a rackspace server there is always 100% packet loss. So I ran a trace route and this was the…
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Copy (down) Rackspace Cloud File bucket to a local directory?
How do I copy (down) a Rackspace Cloud File bucket to a local directory? Or better yet, how do I update a local directory to be a copy of the RS bucket?
There are plenty of tools for uploading or "rsync"ing up, but I am looking for a tool which…
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Serving multiple SSL Websites from a limited number of IPs using load balancers?
We currently host multiple sitecore sites on a rackspace cloud server, we have 5 sites, with 5 IPs and with 5 SSLs. Because rackspace will only allow 4 additional IPv4 addresses on a box we're at the limit of what we can do. Also with Sitecore…
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Rackspace Ubuntu 12.04 server stuck in initramfs after kernel upgrade
Can't boot after I did a aptitude full-upgrade and let it update menu.lst (did a diff first and it looked good).
This is what I've done so far in the BusyBox shell:
mkdir /tmp/xvda1
mount /dev/xvda1 /tmp/xvda1
chroot /dev/xvda1
nano…
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How can I configure a domain registered at GoDaddy to use Slicehost's name servers?
I have a site hosted on a Slicehost VPS (diablocomics.com). The domain is registered with GoDaddy. I'd like to use Slicehost's DNS servers...
ns1.slicehost.net
ns2.slicehost.net
ns3.slicehost.net
I'm pretty sure I have the config on the Slicehost…
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Rackspace Cloud Server and personal domains
Can someone give me a no-nonsense, easy to understand explanation of the process for setting a domain I've registered at Namecheap to resolve to my Rackspace cloud server? This is not Rackspace Cloud Files or Cloud Sites. All tutorials seem to refer…
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Is there an easy way to deploy a Rails 3.1 assets bundle to RackSpace CloudFiles
I recently built out a CDN using Amazons' S3 service and CloudFront. It is super easy to setup with the new assets management in rails 3.1.
However, my other project has an established hosting on Rackspace. I use the Rackspace Cloudfiles for image…
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Setting up multiple web servers - Cloud
Our site traffic has grown large enough that we need to implement two web servers.
We've signed up for the RackSpace cloud and we're wanting to move our eCommerce platform accross. We're running Magento.
Basically I have a few issues.
I'm in the…
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Can Cloudstack be used to manage Rackspace Cloud servers
Specifically, I'm looking at the latest version of Cloudstack, the 2.2.9.1RC.. I can't find in the documentation anything specifically saying whether cloudstack supports or does not support Rackspace Cloud at this time.
Is there a comprehensive…
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How does Load Balancing Work?
I can't figure out how a load balancer works. Say for example on Rackspace cloud servers.
You have one instance with all your stuff
Do you clone that instance, so there are really two identical copies of it?
Then you get a static IP from the load…
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How can Rackspace cloud servers be set up with an EC2 type approach to firewalls?
I'm looking at using Rackspace cloud servers for some Windows based web hosting, and having used Amazon EC2 for similar projects before, I was disappointed to find Rackspace don't employ the EC2 security zone based approach for firewalling.
I…
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