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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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How to turn on/off cloud instances during office hours

I've got my head around creating cloud instances in AWS, Azure and Rackspace. However, I need to turn my instances off at the end of the day and on in the morning as this will half my hosting cost (they are for development). I've looked at a few…
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Pros/Cons Using multiple databases vs using single database

I need to design a windows application which represents multiple "customers" in SQL Server. Each customer has the same data model, but it's independent. what will be the Pros/Cons Using multiple databases vs using single database. which one is the…
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Client IP issue address over https with Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers

We're currently using Lighttpd with FastCGI to serve PHP to our clients. We recently added load balancing through RackSpace Cloud to help us handle our traffic however, the client's IP is now the load balancer IP. All traffic is through HTTPS. We've…
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Comparison between Amazon web services (AWS) or Rackspace cloud servers?

There are two major offering of cloud computing environment by Amazon through AWS and by Rackspace through Rackspace cloud. I wanted to know more about What are cons/pros of one platform over other. That will help me in deciding platform for my…
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Automatically deploying assets to Rackspace CDN via git and updating references to those assets?

I'm looking for some help in designing a strategy to automate deployment of a web application's assets (images, css, js) to Rackspace's Cloud Files (CDN) service. I currently use git push to deploy the web app to a remote server. So here's one way…
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connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream

I am hosting my Rails app on Rackspace with nginx webserver. When calling any Rails API, I see this message in /var/log/nginx/error.log: *49 connect() failed (111: Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 10.189.254.5, server: ,…
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Stuck trying to bootstrap Windows server using Chef

I am a mac girl, working on connecting with knife-windows trough Opscode's managed Chef to my Rackspace Windows servers. (I know, it sounds exotic, but these Windows servers are a customer requirment). I tried to Chef for a spin but I am stuck in…
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check if object exists in Cloud Files (PHP API)

I've just started working with the PHP API for Rackspace Cloud Files. So far so good-- but I am using it as sort of a poor man's memcache, storing key/value pairs of serialized data. My app attempts to grab the existing cached object by its key…
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installing sshpass on amazon linux AMI based ec2 instance

I am planning to automate aws-rackspace server migration. I am following the official rackspace documentation(https://github.com/cloudnull/InstanceSync/blob/master/rsrsyncLive.sh) which uses rsync to migrate. I have modified the code to use sshpass…
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How to control the cache with carrierwave on Rackspace cloud storage?

Users can upload avatars on my website. This can change quiet often. I need a strict url that will not change as the url can be displayed in some cached part of the website. I have tried to set on my Rails application the following fog attributes to…
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Django upload image - From a form to Rackspace/S3 with no manipulation

I simply want to upload an image (JPG) using a form, then send that image to Rackspace 'Cloud Files' or Amazon 'S3'. No manipulating the file. No saving to disk, everything to memory (am hosted on a cloud server) Image size won't exceed…
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Is it possible to upload files to Rackspace Files Cloud from browser?

Is it possible to upload files to Rackspace Files Cloud from browser like in Amazon S3?
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Does Rackspace Cloud Servers API "personality" field work?

I'm using the Ruby binding to the CloudServers API to spin up a cluster of machines. The API includes the ability to "inject" files into the filesystem of the newly created machine, using a field called "personality". However, I'm not able to…
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cloud drive vs. cloud files (or should we not bother?)

The web application is in the process of moving from a standalone server to a pair of servers behind a load-balancer, and contains a 50GB directory of user-created data that is growing rapidly. On rackspace, the only way to add disk space…
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Set SSH Host IP Address on Rackspace for Ansible

The Question When using the rax module to spin up servers and get inventory, how do I tell Ansible to connect to the IP address on an isolated network rather than the server's public IP? Note: Ansible is being run from a server on the same isolated…
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