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CloudFiles is Rackspace's Object Storage service, based on OpenStack Swift.

CloudFiles is Rackspace's Object Storage service, which allows you to upload and download arbitrary objects/files. Object containers can be enabled to use a Content Delivery Network (CDN) to make object retrieval faster for users.

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Rackspace Cloudfiles and Django Cumulus

From the past 2 days i have literally lost my patience trying to make Cloudfiles work for my project(using cumulus). Here are some of the issues: 1.) Sometimes when i upload any photo using admin(creating a model and registering with admin)... the…
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Getting public URL of newly uploaded CloudFiles asset

When uploading new asset into the CloudFiles storage I want to get public URL of this asset (if container is CDN-enabled). I figured out the only way to do this is to issue 3 (yes, three!) requests to RackSpace: Authenticate user and get…
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Why do uploads happen so slowly with CarrierWave and Rackspace Cloudfiles?

I am using CarrierWave for image uploading, and the uploads take anywhere from 3-5 seconds (in production) using Rackspace Cloudfiles as the store. At first, I attributed it to my image processor being slow or awkward, or something; so, I switched…
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Global "connection"-like variables in Python

Full script: https://gist.github.com/4476526 The specific code in question is # Cloud Files username & API key username = '' key = '' # Source and destination container names originContainerName = '' targetContainerName = '' ... def…
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Cloud Files Meta Data: Any reason to be concerned with custom meta?

I've been using Rackspace Cloud Files with the PHP API to store uploaded files. The documents are referenced in a local database for easy lookup. All is working well, but I have some concerns with my storage of meta data. I'm storing custom meta…
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CloudFiles - Rackspace connection error c#

I am trying to connect to rackspace using their api and passing my username and api key but i get this error : The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized. here is my code : UserCredentials userCreds = new…
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Can I set headers to download a file from a remote location, eg CloudFiles

For example, if I set some headers to download a file from my server I would do header('Content-type: application/pdf'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="downloaded.pdf"'); And then just output the data of the file Is it possible…
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Paperclip CloudFiles?

How can I use Paperclip with CloudFiles? I found paperclip-cloudfiles, but in the description it says it will probably be removed and the last commit was in 2010.
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Is Seafile a real cloud storage?

I currently have two file servers to store all my files. One is at my home and the other one is at my parents home. The hard disks on both servers are synced, meaning that if I add/change/delete a file on one server, once a day the servers sync…
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Azure stored file has different MD5 checksum than local file (being same file)

I'm using a could service to upload files to an Azure Storage service, so I want to check the file's integrity using MD5 checksum, so first I get the checksum from a function. public static string GetMD5HashFromFile(Stream stream) { using (var…
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How to create a web page for uploading very big files to OpenStack Swift?

I would like to set up a web page where a user could upload very big data files to OpenStack Swift. The data files have file sizes that sometimes exceed the object file size limit of Rackspace Cloud Files (5 GB). This seems to rule out the…
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Rackspace Cloud Files Get Objects In Container C#

I have been looking at the documentation, testing examples and getting familiar with the Rackspace Cloud Files API. I got the basic code down, got the API key, got a username, the basic stuff. Now one thing confuses me, this problem is something…
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PHP Looping uploads

I'm uploading files into Rackspace Cloud Files and, unfortunately, they have a limit of 100 uploads/second per container, so what I'm trying to do is, if the upload fails, try again until the upload succeeds. // uploading a local file on the…
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rackspace cloudfiles throws ContainerNotFoundException after migration from jclouds 1.5 to 1.7

I am trying to update the jclouds libs we use from version 1.5 to 1.7. We access the api the following way: https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds-examples/tree/master/rackspace/src/main/java/org/jclouds/examples/rackspace/cloudfiles private…
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How to correctly handle images with Django and CloudFiles?

In my particular case I'm using Rackspace CloudFiles with sorl-thumbnails. It seems to download images from CloudFiles slowly. I have 1 worker for handling requests and another one for celery tasks. Looked for existing solutions and it seems there…
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