Questions tagged [rackspace-cloud]

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Identity management for cloud servers (specif: Rackspace cloud): How?

We have a growing number of instances on rackspace cloud. A mix of about 2/3 windows (2008 and 2012) and 1/3 linux. Managing all the logins discretely is a pita. Is there a straightforward way, even just for the win servers, to centralize login &…
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PaaS on top of Cloud

This question may sound stupid and if it does I appologise. Is it possible to build a service like PagodaBox (PHP PaaS) on top of a virtualised enviroment such as Rackspace Cloud or AWS EC2 etc? Or would you need to have a dedicated server…
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RackSpace CreateImage API using curl is not working

Whenever i m trying to create image from the given api using curl -: curl -i -X POST https://lon.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.1/xxxxxxxxx/servers/xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx/createImage -H "X-Auth-Token:…
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Unable to install rsync on mycloud.rackspace.com

I'd like to install rsync to do daily backups of my client's server account, which was recently migrated to mycloud.rackspace.com. Rackspace does have a tutorial implying it can be installed in the usual…
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Guaranteed HTTP forwarding frontend service (reliable cloud load balancer)

My situation is fairly simple and, I guess, it's encountered fairly often. I have several projects which all look pretty much the same - a single project consists of: Static content servers - there are a couple of decent CDN solutions that solve…
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FTP Server with MySQL access, and POST notification

Im looking for an FTP server solution, that we can host either internally on a dedicated server, or on Rackspace Cloud/AWS, that provides a HTTP POST notification when a file is uploaded, and allows user accounts to be created either through an API…
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Unable to send mail to hotmail from rackspace cloud

I'm having issue sending mail from postfix on a rackspace cloud instance for my domain. Hotmail says "550 SC-001 (SNT0-MC4-F35) Unfortunately, messages from 198.101.x.x weren't sent. Please contact your Internet service provider since part of their…
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Application to monitor traffic spikes on cloud server?

I was wondering if anybody knew of any software (preferably free if possible) that monitors server traffic for spikes? Something that, say, might send out notifications via email or anything for that matter to let you know there's an unusually high…
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raxmon equivalent for load balancer ssl termination on rackspace?

Looking into RackSpace SSL termination and realizing the API to configure SSL termination is extremely bare. Before I get started writing a client, does anyone know if there is something out there already? Similar to raxmon for the Monitoring?
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Calculating Cloud Service Costs

Possible Duplicate: Can you help me with my capacity planning? I would like to scale a web application to the Cloud and wanted to know if anyone had any experience calculating costs and could tell me how I would go about that. I have NO…
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Rackspace Cloud Monitoring API

I was looking at the cloud monitoring API guide of Rackspace. If anyone has already been through it and/or has used it, can you please tell me whether it is possible to get stats relating to average consumption of resources by my cloud? Example, can…
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Does either Rackspace or AWS provide APIs for billing information?

By billing, I mean real-time usage and consumption statistics - the API for which can be used to generate custom reports, forecast expenditure, etc. I see that AWS has the facility to generate custom reports pertaining to usage that they export as a…
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Do I need an SSL certificate if all traffic is being redirected to another secure domain?

I currently use a CNAME to silently direct all traffic for http://cdn.domain.com to my Rackspace Cloud Files domain at http://cxxx.rxx.cxx.rackcdn.com. Now I also want to silently direct all HTTPS traffic for https://cdn.domain.com to…
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How to Plan for scale on my rackspace cloud server

I currently have a couple of cloud servers on Rackspace For application NGINX+PHP+Memcached+APC 2GB instance For Mysql Database 1GB instance Our site at the moment is not very heavy in terms of traffic, we have about 100000 pageviews per month,…
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Rackspace RackConnect Configuration

We currently have a dedicated web server and database server with Rackspace. We have a new web app that we would like to bring up on the Rackspace Cloud service. We are looking at the RackConnect option, which will allow the cloud web server to…