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The Rackspace Cloud is a set of cloud computing products and services billed on a utility computing basis from the US-based company Rackspace. Offerings include web application hosting or platform as a service ("Cloud Sites"), Cloud Storage ("Cloud Files"), virtual private server ("Cloud Servers"), load balancers, databases, backup, and monitoring.

The Rackspace Cloud is a set of cloud computing products and services billed on a utility computing basis from the US-based company Rackspace. Offerings include web application hosting or platform as a service ("Cloud Sites"), Cloud Storage ("Cloud Files"), virtual private server ("Cloud Servers"), load balancers, databases, backup, and monitoring.

Rackspace Cloud announced Mosso LLC in March, 2006, as a wholly owned subsidiary billed as a utility computing offering.

As it pre-dated mainstream adoption of the term cloud computing, it was "retooled" and relaunched on February 19, 2008, adopting the tagline "Mosso: The Hosting Cloud".

The "Mosso" branding (including the mosso.com domain) was then dropped on June 17, 2009 in favour of "The Rackspace Cloud" branding (including the rackspacecloud.com domain name). Since then, customer contracts were executed with Rackspace US, Inc. d/b/a The Rackspace Cloud rather than with the Mosso LLC subsidiary.

Other companies (such as EMC Corporation with its "Decho" subsidiary) also use alternative branding for their cloud computing offerings.

In 2011, the "Rackspace Cloud" brand merged with Rackspace.com. In 2012, Rackspace rebranded as "Rackspace, the open cloud company".

Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rackspace_Cloud

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Speed up often used Django random query

I've got a query set up that puts 28 random records from a database into a JSON response. This page is hit often, every few seconds, but is currently too slow for my liking. In the JSON response I have: ID's Usernames a Base64 thumbnail These all…
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Incorrect content type using rackspace form post

I am using form post method to post some files to one of my containers on rackspace. Problem is if i upload a pdf first and then a png in 1 go, It is trying to open png in pdf viewer. Upon checking I came to know that the "Content-type" was set to…
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Rackspace Cloud Sites and ASP.NET 4

I am looking at signing up for the Cloud Sites service from Rackspace, but I looking for practical experience anyone has had with their ASP.NET 4 'beta' program. I plan to develop in MVC3 moving forward and cannot consider the Cloud Sites service…
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Rails, Rackspace Cloud Files, Referrer ACL

I am using Rackspace Cloud Files as File Storage server for my application. The files that users upload must be authorized from within my application, then from a controller it would redirect to the correct Rackspace Cloud Files CDN URL. I am trying…
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setting up file restriction by IP using .htaccess on a cluster/cloud environment

found answer, see end of the post How do you restrict access to a file by IP, when you are hosted in a cluster/cloud environment (Rackspace Cloud, to be more specific). Yesterday, I asked a similar question here, and received the following answer,…
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Loopback storage error - Path does not exist: undefined

Please help http://docs.strongloop.com/display/public/LB/Storage+service I want to set it to upload into the container rackspace but an error after slc run http://prntscr.com/69uvcb …
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File storage and block storage

I came across file storage and block storage and was exploring and based on what I could understand, it is as follows: Block level storage A. Requires a separate volume and an operating system on which it will be mounted as a separate hard disk and…
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htaccess to redirect http:// and http://www to https:// that plays nice with subdomains

I'm trying to redirect the following conditions: http://mydomain.com http://www.mydomain.com to: https://mydomain.com But I don't want it to mess up anything with subdomains, so that someone who types: http://m.mydomain.com would not be redirected…
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How do I make Cloudfiles FormPost return the "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" header to enable CORS?

I want to enable CORS in my Rackspace CluodFiles container, so after reading the docs, I see I have to set some container metadata (I'm using Python and Pyrax): from pyrax import cloudfiles cloudfiles.set_container_metadata(container_name, { …
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openstack swift: The server has waited too long for the request to be sent by the client

we get few of these now and then: Caused by: javax.ejb.EJBException: org.jclouds.http.HttpResponseException: command: PUT {{PUT_URL}} HTTP/1.1 failed with response: HTTP/1.1 408 Request Timeout; content: [

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Download files from RackSpace Files

I have installed PHP SDK using composer. It seems samples folder has old code cause it does not work for me. I want to download some of files from RackSpace folder. Following is my code and it brings nothing.
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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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What does "compartmentalizing services" mean?

I'm building a web app using Node/Express/Angular/Mongo and this is my first time dealing with a cloud server. Rackspace suggested that I compartmentalize my services. In an effort to not sound like a complete novice in front of the client, I turn…
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Is there an equivalent to Amazon S3's s3cmd sync for Rackspace Cloud Files?

I'm currently using Amazon S3 to host all static content on my site. The site has a lot of static files, so I need an automated way of syncing the files on my localhost with the remote files. I currently do this with s3cmd's sync feature, which…
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create a download link with rails to an external file with at URL

I moved my file storage to Rackspace Cloudfiles and it broke my send_file action. old def full_res_download @asset = Asset.find(params[:id]) @file = "#{Rails.root}/public#{@asset.full_res}" send_file @file end new def full_res_download …
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