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Questions tagged [rackspace-cloud]

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Administration of IaaS versus PaaS

Am I correct in understanding that generally IaaS (looking primarily at rackspace cloud servers) will provide a virtual server where OS updates, software updates, anti-virus, managed backups and other common non-hardware server admin tasks will be…
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How can import an existing linux machine into Rackspace?

How can import an existing linux machine into Rackspace is pretty much what I'd like to know. I've got a VM hosted in a datacenter, and I'd like to move that VM, which is configured and running perfectly to Rack Space Cloud Server I don't really…
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How do I install puppet automatically on image startup?

I'm working on setting up a new Ubuntu 10.04 (lucid) cluster in the Rackspace cloud environment. I'm using Puppet for the first time to automate as much as I can. I've setup a puppet master and I'm now ready to build an image that will…
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Help needed with Amazon EC2 / rackspace cloud terminology, to pick a good provider

I have a rackspace linux server with 512 MB of RAM and a Linux Micro instance on EC2 (it has 613 MB of RAM). I wanted another bulkier instance for a new web app our company is deploying. I am planning to go with Amazon standard instance (which has…
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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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Handling Massive Outlook Data Files

I have recently inherited a mess of an IT system (we don't even use a domains and group policy despite having a server). One major problem I am coming across frequently though is that users' Outlook data files are reaching massive amounts (such as…
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MySQL shutting down without warning, out of memory?

I'm scratching my head on this. I have New Relic tracking, and my log files on the server, but MySQL keeps stopping, and all I have is this when I check logs, New Relic has nothing. Only thing I'm seeing is the "Initializing buffer pool, size =…
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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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Reclaiming Space That 'df' Says Should Be Available

I have a linux server hosted on one of Rackspace's CloudServers and it is showing that I have both no room available, yet also shows I have 12GB not used on the root partition. This server's only job is to rsync over files nightly from another…
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How to download the saved images in the Rackspace cloud server?

I wonder if someone know how could I download the saved server image in a Rackspace cloud server. I have been searching and nothing found even in the Rackspace knowledge base. I know it is stored in the file system, but where exactly is it? If I…
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Incremental backups from Rackspace Cloud Files to Amazon Glacier

Is there a software product/module (open-source or commercial) that can provide incremental backups from Rackspace Cloud Files to Amazon Glacier? We are looking for something that will provide the following functionality (or achieve the same result,…
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Can connect to shared folder on a Rackspace Cloud Windows Server 2012, but access denied when accessing

I have a Windows Server 2012 (non-domain) with a folder that's shared out as TestShare. The share permissions are Everyone has full access, and there is a local user TestUser that has full access to the actual folder. On GuestServer I can connect…
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Is it possible to serve files from Rackspace Cloudfiles from nginx?

I'm storing a bunch of content in Rackspace's cloudfiles, and I need to serve that content to the client, but securely. It's not like these are super secret files, but putting them on a publicly accessible cdn would be unacceptable. Right now I'm…
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Deploying to Rackspce Cloud using Cloud Foundry and VMC

I'm just wondering how do I use Cloud Foundry VMC to deploy my application to different cloud providers? In particular Rackspace Cloud. I know there are services that use cloud foundry like AppFog, but they don't really support RS Cloud at the…
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What are my options with a downloaded Rackspace cloud image?

I've got an unresponsive Rackspace slice that has defied all attempts at accessing. I created an emergency image from this and deleted it, downloading the files that compromise the image to a local source. There are a number of files / assets I…
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