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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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Web and Database servers on different providers

I have currently my setup on Rackspace. Now, I need to double my Db's capacity (memory). The prices are very high compared to AWS. I need to keep my public IP because of access rules by third parties. Therefore, I am thinking of moving only my Db to…
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Download Rackspace MYSQL backup

I've got historical backups for the last 2 years of my DB instance on Rackspace. I need to download a particular backup and pull some of the data on a specific day. I don't see any documentation on this, or any actual way to do this. How would I go…
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How do I know which cloud server image to use

I want to use Rackspace Cloud Servers, but am not sure which Cloud Server image I should use. Here are the options I have: CentOS 5.2 Gentoo 2008.0 Debian 5.0 (lenny) Fedora 10 (Cambridge) CentOS 5.3 Ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty) Arch 2009.02 Ubuntu 8.04.2…
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Not able to connect to rackspace server via FTP

I've Wordpress sites hosted in Rackspace server. I'm able able to connect to the server via ssh through port 22. But when i try to connect to the server via FTP through port 21, i'm getting error Response: 500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with…
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With the emergence of scalable VPS like Rackspace's Cloudservers, is there still room for traditional VPS providers?

With Rackspace Cloudservers gaining popularity, and the ability for one to use their cloudserver as a scalable VPS, is there any reason why people should be using traditional VPS providers? Cloudservers gives the same kind of services as a normal…
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What setting will I need to change when switching hosts and registrar at the same time?

After much Googling, I think I've confused myself concerning DNS-related things. For a client, I am moving a site from Network Solutions to GoDaddy, both the domain registration and the hosting account. I have replicated the site on the new hosting…
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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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OpenSwan VPN IPSEC Tunnel Connection

I was hoping this website would be able to help with solving this issue since I've been running in circles on my end! I am using OpenSwan to setup an IPSec tunnel between a VPN server on Rackspace and a VPN server on AWS. I've gone through several…
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How can I securely access a Rackspace Cloud Database in AWS?

Rackspace limits access for Cloud Databases to their ServiceNet. How can I securely and efficiently connect to a database instance there from AWS (over the public internet)?
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Medium traffic causes wordpress server to require a hard reboot

We are having trouble with our rackspace wordpress server falling down with medium traffic after an email send. The server specs are: CPU 2 vCPUs RAM 2 GB System Disk 80 GB Network 240 Mb / s Disk I/O …
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Exchange 2013 New Profile Initial Update Slow, ping to server 300ms, updating at 1.5GB per day

I am using a well known Exchange 2013 provider and having issues recreating a profile and the initial sync download which has 15GB of mail which is taking weeks to update - during the intial sync/update new emails do not update instantly. Once…
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How does "Cloud Files" from Rackspace know about my CNAME record?

TLDR: when I make this DNS record: whatever.mydomain.com. IN CNAME biglongjibberstring.r89.cf2.rackcdn.com. How does Rackspace know that this random host name I've chosen should go to my Cloud Files container/account as opposed to another…
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How to AVOID getting caught in a DDOS meant for someone else (not prevent)?

So we have a load balancer and all that jazz set up with Rackspace. However, guess what, our clients' websites were down again today. It seems that Rackspace should have their load-balancer architecture separate from their other stuff, but I'm sure…
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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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JBoss Application Server on Rackspace Cloud/Mosso

So,I have a cloud account with Rackspace Cloud. I've set up a server with them. They gave me an IP and a password. I SSH'd to the machine, installed Mysql-server, Java and JBoss 5.0.1. I started JBoss on port 80 by modifying the server.xml in the…
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