Questions tagged [rackspace]
Rackspace is a traditional and cloud hosting company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. They run datacentres in three US states, the UK, and Hong Kong.
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I changed my TTL from 24 hours to 5 minutes. Do I need to wait 24 hours before changing the records?
I am migrating our app from a cloud server at Rackspace t a dedicated server.
I want to bring the application down for ~5 minutes to copy the data from the cloud server to the dedicated server, so I ...
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How to build and run a machine room?
The last guy quit (I think a lot of adventures begin this way?) and I've been given the job to build a new machine room. I am coordinating with 2 engineers, campus ITS, campus Facilities Management, ...
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Meltdown & Spectre - Does patching the guest kernel of an unpatched hypervisor prevent cross-VM memory leaks?
24 hours after the wide scale release of the vulnerabilities, Rackspace is silent about Spectre and Meltdown. They do not have a plan for patching all of their Xen hypervisors. All their newer ...
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"Cloud" file storage Vs. Self-Managed Servers (What's the big deal with cloud?)
So I'm just going to jump right in to the maths; My web host offers a server with 5x2TB drives, unmetered 1GB/s connection and can provision servers in 5 different data-centers, for ~$200/month.
If I ...
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Backup solutions for Rackspace cloud sites?
What options do I have for backing up the content from a Rackspace Cloud Sites including files and databases? I know they have cron jobs, but I am not sure what options I have when it comes to that.
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bind: cannot assign requested address
I've recently switch over to AWS from Rackspace and I'm setting up a simple geolocation server using freegeopip. While the following commands work perfectly on a new Rackspace serve (Ubuntu) I can't ...
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External load balancer solutions between EC2 and Rackspace
I have a website primarily hosted on EC2 with the backends (MySql) replicated async to a Rackspace store. I am also planning to have a suite of web server, cache & db on standby at Rackspace in ...
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Import SSL Cert into IIS when I have the text of the certificate and private key
I am working on moving a site from Rackspace Cloud Sites onto a server running IIS and need to get the SSL certificate imported into IIS. All I have at the moment for the SSL certificate is what ...
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Best cat6 patch panels? Is price really a factor?
I can go down to my local graybar right now and purchase some AllenTel 48 Port Cat 6 Patch panels I need (part number AT66-PNL-48). They are $275 each. That seems a bit high considering I've seen ...
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ssl certificate error while making cURL request to IP address
I am trying to send a cURL request to a server with an IP address x.x.x.x . It is a part of an health monitoring system. On the server I have configured virtual hosts for subdomain.example.com on both ...
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Sync/mirror directory with Rackspace Cloud files bucket
What tool can I use to synchronize the content of a local directory with that of a Rackspace Cloud Files bucket?
I need a rsync-like application to do a mirror, not a backup application. What I want ...
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Track bandwith usage by application
I have a server at Rackspace and noticed my server is suddenly sending out 2GB of data per month (this is atypical since I don't use it that much)
How can I figure out what application is using that ...
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Active Directory in the cloud
My company is considering implementing Active Directory and Windows Server to manage our local network and workstations. The main benefits sought are central management of machines, security policies,...
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How can I run Rackspace images locally?
As the title says, I regularly download my Rackspace images for backup of my VPS, however I'm wondering if it's possible to run them locally on KVM (for example) so I can run tests on my application ...
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AWS EC2 or RackSpace [closed]
I am planning go for an instance on AWS EC 2 for my clients , should I go with AWS EC 2 or Rackspace CS , seems like the rack space have some different features like fanatical support but sla seems to ...
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How do I register only internal NIC address in AD DNS, with servers with multiple NICs?
I'm hosting some Windows servers on Rackspace, and have added them to a domain. Each server has two NICs, a public and private NIC. The public NIC has a public IPv4 and IPv6 address, while the private ...
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Multicast in Rackspace cloud
On Amazon EC2, I cannot use multicast, but how about rackspace cloud? It would be very beneficial to be able to use multicast as most clustering protocols rely on it...
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MySql Data Loss - post mortem analysis - RackSpace Cloud Server
After a recent 'emergency migration' of a RS cloud server, the mysql databases on our server snapshot image proved to be days out of date from the backup date. And yet files that were uploaded ...
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Rackspace cloudserver backup options
I recently signed up with Rackspace to host some database servers. I've got two MySQL servers set up, and have a method to create backups (using the Percona Xtrabackup and innobackupex tools). I've ...
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Using Load Balancer in Rackspace cloud for website HA
I have tested tomcat specific clustering with apache mod_jk and mod_proxy on ubuntu local VMs for our website high availability and load balancing. The real servers are hosted by Rackspace cloud ...
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Migration between OpenStack and RackSpace cloud
So I am deploying a OpenStack private cloud in my business. As I understand from research the OpenStack project was created by RackSpace and that their own cloud platform uses OpenStack.
So my ...
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Amazon S3 + Cloudfront VS Rackspace CloudFiles [closed]
I know this question came up lot of time on the internet , But I couldn't find any latest updates on this . So I gathered the information what I found and putting here and have few questions on it . ...
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How does the Cloud compare to Colocation? And development too [closed]
Currently I/we run a SaaS web application where each subscriber has their own physical instance of the application in addition to their own database. The setup has each web application instance ...
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To what extent do I need to know what i am doing with Ubuntu Linux server admin?
So as a bit of background, I am completely new to server admin.
I am a web designer, and generally know quite a bit about computers.
Until a few months ago, I had never used LINUX.
Now my desktop ...
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How to choose size for a cloud server (rackspace)
We're going to test the rackspace cloud next week to see how it's working with our web app. It's a LAMP environment with a lot of MySQL databases.
How do I choose the "right" server size? On ...
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postfix error looking up passwd info (catch-all)
In postfix I'm trying to setup a catch-all address for unknown local accounts. Any mail that can be delivered to a local user should be delivered to their local mailbox (and respect any aliases in /...
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What is the quickest way to get a new Rackspace server instance connected to a puppet master?
Right now I
log into the new server
put the puppet master in /etc/hosts
install puppet
change "START" to "yes" in /etc/default/puppet
change "server" to puppet master name under [main]
run agent with ...
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Rear mount or front mount switches
Where I work all the switches in a rack are mounted in the rear of the rack, but this presents a problem with hot isle cold isle cooling. The alternative is to mount the switches in the front of the ...
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Is slow IO on my cloud server causing my slow server restart issues?
I'm running two servers on Rackspace cloud one for the web app and one for the db and redis instances. The web server has 1Gb of ram and single core. Nginx sits in front of unicorn which is running 2 ...
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Forcing a verbose fsck on reboot (Ubuntu)
I'd like to force a verbose fsck on reboot of my Ubuntu linux server, I can get fsck to run on reboot by creating a file /forcefsck in my root dir ...
Additionally, by adding a y into the contents of ...
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How to remove / add public network to a server in Rackspace API
I have a server in Rackspace API. I would like to use the nova command to remove the public network interface.
I am using the command:
nova virtual-interface-list <instance_id>
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How do you audit cloud servers?
So we have a decent number for cloud servers that are on Rackspace (numerous) accounts. I'm looking for a solution to the - What's on that server? Where is that server? How do I get to that server?
I ...
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Chef Error "RuntimeError: Please save server before accessing metadata"
I'm trying to create a new server on the Rackspace Cloud using Chef and I keep coming across this error in Chef:
RuntimeError: Please save server before accessing metadata
Any ideas?
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Dedicated server hosting with your own server
Is that possible?
I notice that monthly prices go up when the more powerful your server.
I'd like to avoid the raise in pricing by using my own home-built rackable-server. I would like to send my ...
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High CPU performance on a cloud hosting platform
We need a cloud hosting platform that provides high CPU throughput for a very specific high-CPU utilization application we have. Can anyone recommend a cloud hosting platform whose virtual instances ...
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Does SQL database perform significantly better on a dedicated machine vs Azure cloud
I'm looking into splitting our database server and application server and am evaluating offerings from Rackspace and Azure specifically around the database server. We are a Saas Web application and ...
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What's the difference between Rackspace Cloud Servers and Rackspace Cloud Sites? [closed]
I'm looking to host a video-centric PHP site. Video will be served from CDN.
What does Cloud Site's $150/mo get you?
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Seems like with cloud site you get:
web server that's ready to go
a web-...
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Things I should look for/tread cautiously if I am moving to the cloud
What should I be looking out for when moving to a cloud like Rackspace? Another user at serverfault had issues like compute cycles (CC) exploding and I did not want to have the same experience.
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Unable to connect to Ubuntu on port 3306 (MySQL) on Rackspace instance
I'm trying to connect to port 3306 on an Ubuntu box and am unable to do so. When I do iptables -L -n | grep 3306 I see this:
ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:3306
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Getting "An operation on a socket could not be performed because the system lacked sufficient ..." when server access the internet
I have ASP.NET application running on Windows Server 2008 R2 hosted on Rackspace servers. Suddenly something went wrong. All my application working fine except for the pages which call third part web-...
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Why am I getting 'undefined method' exceptions when executing 'run_list add', 'run_list remove' and 'rackspace server delete'?
[Originally posted this to opscode forum, got no response]
I’m testing out a free hosted chef-server account and multiple subcommands are failing with ‘Unexpected Errors’. Perhaps my version and the ...
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Puppet write hosts using api call
I'm trying to write a puppet function that calls my hosting environment (rackspace cloud atm) to list servers, then update my hosts file.
My get_hosts function is currently this:
require 'rubygems'
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What does RXTX Factor mean, what is it and how does it affect my server?
In the Rackspace overview for their next gen servers they have a table of flavor options.
In the table there is a column called RXTX factor with no explanation. I tried googling, but couldn't find ...
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Rackspace offsite backup
Is it necessary to do offsite backups when you're on Rackspace?
Rackspace does daily image backups of the server, which does backups every half hour. If the server is hacked, and all backups are ...
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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 ...
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know about web app to monitor server activity?
I have running some servers on rackspace and I want to know if there is a web application like linode-graphs as you can see in the image ?
I want to see graphs of server activities like:
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cpu
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In Rackspace cloud, it is true that a 2GB server is faster than the default 256MB server?
For example...when I do string.find("..."), will it be faster because the CPU is allocated more?
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Can I create local AMI file for future use on various cloud service?
Is it possible to locally create a single AMI file of say Debian Jessie and use it directly (or with little changes) on any AMI-compatible cloud service providers (eg. AWS, CloudStack, Digital Ocean ...
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Load balancer for multiple sites
I am in the process of setting up a network of web servers on Rackspace. I am looking to do 4 servers in groups of two. See diagram below.
My question is, if I have server A and server B as a ...
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Are relative-path symlinks reliable on Rackspace Cloud Sites?
Rackspace's Cloud Sites have a lot of stupid limitations. For example, no SSH (in or out), no shell, no RSYNC, etc... (even through cron).
Recently I learned that you can't reliably use symlinks in ...
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