Showing posts with label Rackspace. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rackspace. Show all posts

Monday, 24 June 2013

Unmanaged Rackspace Cloud Server : For Whom its a Good Option

Unmanaged Rackspace Cloud Server costs lesser because only the pay-as-you-go charges are calculated. But unmanaged is neither intended for all nor for all usage. The cost of managed level is plus $100 per month, itmight be a premium option for the most as the total cost goes near about ~ $150 per month at minimum. But, unmanaged Rackspace Cloud Server has some unwritten purpose of usages, …
Cloud Computing, Computer, Rackspace
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Thursday, 20 June 2013

Rackspace Cloud Sites Vs Red Hat OpenShift : Comparing the Paid Options

Rackspace Cloud Sites Vs Red Hat Open Shift is to some extent comparable because both of them are basically Platform as a Service, highest plan cost the same. We have talked a lot about the specific Cloud Computing Service Models that includes PaaS, aPaaS, IaaS. SaaS is not recommended to use for various practical restriction. The topic?Rackspace Cloud Sites Vs Red Hat Open Shift came out from a …

Friday, 14 June 2013

IBM Cloud and Softlayer : A Conflicting Acquisition

IBM Cloud and Softlayer marriage believed believed to be the a conflicting business. SoftLayer can only bring benefits in terms of cost, offers, facilities. Just few weeks ago, we logically opined that IBM Cloud is a Complete Failure and the company IBM is only living on brand name. Apart from the news from Reuters named EMC, IBM eye web hosting company SoftLayer- sources, we had the information from other source that IBM Cloud is going to commit another big mistake. IBM Cloud and Softlayer, is an acquisition, which lead to thousand of conflicting opinions. The whole process, known to be handled by Morgan Stanley, primarily.…

Tuesday, 11 June 2013

Install PiWik on OpenShift Free PaaS

Install PiWik on OpenShift Free PaaS with few easy command. Piwik is Free Analytics Software for web, full control, does not pass information to third party. We are advocating Free, Open Source Softwares under GNU GPL 3.0 (or 2.0) since many years. You now can understand the reasons why Free Analytics Software for web is far better option for your website. Piwik is used by Free Software Foundation themselves. It is quite assuring simple because Richard M. Stallman will not use anything on FSF which has doubt. It is a download-able Software, we can use any web host which has PHP-MySQL support. OpenShift is from Red Hat and the Source Code is available too. There is nothing hidden. We used Piwik on this website before but stopped for huge consumption of resources as we use a paid platform. However, OpenShift has a free quota and can be used by anyone, fully free of cost. Even, minimal monthly payment …

Tuesday, 4 June 2013

Installing Apache Subversion Plus Trac on Rackspace Cloud Server

Installing Apache Subversion Plus Trac on Rackspace Cloud Server requires some advanced commands. This is for Ubuntu build as you can add managed level later. Any video guide on Rackspace Server will help you to create a new instance of Ubuntu server with no management level. Taking the cost of a managed level is higher for any Free Software Project, we are showing the needed command for Installing Apache Subversion Plus Trac on Rackspace Cloud Server using Ubuntu unmanaged server from Rackspace Cloud. You can upgrade later to managed if situation helps you.…
Cloud Computing, showing, Rackspace
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Wednesday, 17 April 2013

Installing Gitlab on Rackspace Cloud Server

Installing Gitlab on Rackspace Cloud Server is the first text guide for our series on Gitlab originated from the article – Options of Installing Gitlab for Code Hosting. We provided the idea on how to calculate the cost of hosting on Cloud platform – its indispensable , specially if you are a new user. Installing Gitlab on Rackspace Cloud Server is a bit complex if you are habituated to install the CMS like Drupal, Joomla! or blogging softwares like WordPress – we basically configure them as LAMP Server.…

Wednesday, 3 April 2013

Password Protection with htaccess on Rackspace Cloud Sites

Password Protection with htaccess on Rackspace Cloud Sites needs few extra steps to do otherwise the method is same that is normally done for any Apache2 webserver. Rackspace Cloud Sites is Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS) primarily targeted for hosting PHP-MySQL based web softwares including CMS and blogging softwares. Password Protection with htaccess on Rackspace Cloud Sites is actually not difficult, but for a new user it might take some time find it out. Here is how you can lock any folder or the root of domain hosted on Rackspace Cloud Sites with username and password.…
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Monday, 11 March 2013

AppFog Cloud PaaS CLI : Getting Started Guide

AppFog Cloud PaaS is quite popular both for free quota to host websites and applications as well as the flexible platform they delivers at an affordable price. AppFog is a multi IaaS enabled platform as a service. That gives AppFog more flexibility than Heroku Cloud or OpenShift. The biggest advantage of Heroku definitely the free SSL. However, SSL is not required by all. With a website running WordPress with ~ 300 visitors per day will run quite fine for free on AppFog Cloud PaaS. Previous guide on AppFog was on installing WordPress through GUI. This is an introductory article on the command line interface of AppFog. This is a text based guide, we will later publish video tutorials on AppFog. For some, AppFog can be a better alternative to Rackspace Cloud Server (unmanaged) for reduction of cost, though it is a PaaS not IaaS; direct comparison from technical point is not right.
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Friday, 8 March 2013

Creating and Deleting Server Instance on Rackspace Cloud : Video Guide

Creating and Deleting Server Instance on are two most basic points that any new user must get used with it. You can practice the full process to master it. Once you delete the server, there will be nothing. So be careful. The charge for Rackspace is based on hourly usage basis. For one such practice, it is actually around 50 cents at the end of the month or starting of the month, based on what is the plan you are using.…

Monday, 4 March 2013

How To Duplicate Entire MySQL Database From Command Line

How To Duplicate Entire MySQL Database From Command Line is a frequently asked question as we often need to backup the database or restore the database quickly. In this short guide on How To Duplicate Entire MySQL Database From Command Line, we are giving example with Rackspace Cloud Server. It will definitely work with any other standard webhost.

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Sunday, 17 February 2013

Pushing Git Repositories over FTP in Rackspace Cloud Sites

Pushing Git Repositories over FTP in Rackspace Cloud Sites is possible in read only mode. Here is a guide for hardcore command line interface users to use git. After reading the title – Pushing Git Repositories over FTP in Rackspace Cloud Sites, as a Rackspace Cloud Sites user, you might get this kind of feeling – “what ? git ? is it Rackspace Cloud Sites ?” Yes, Pushing Git Repositories over FTP in Rackspace Cloud Sites is for Rackspace Cloud Sites. Who told you that you will always need the shell access for git ?

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Tuesday, 12 February 2013

Online Markdown Editor of Your Own : Again Full Cloud Based

Online Markdown Editor of Your Own can be hosted on Dropbox or Rackspace Cloud Files as practically all the files – javascript, images, CSS are static files. We basically do not need that much decoration for own usage, thats too for an Online Markdown Editor, thats too for private usage. If you deliberately want to invite more work, definitely we can give you the cheat ways to decorate it.…

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Sunday, 10 February 2013

Rackspace Cloud FTP Guide

FTP covers both the FTP / SFTP for Rackspace Cloud Sites and Rackspace Cloud Server. Here are also and tricks for Rackspace Cloud FTP. Almost 3 digit figure everyday search on this website with the phrase Rackspace Cloud FTP and landing to wrong articles and guides. We are really not sure what actually they want with this Rackspace Cloud FTP phrase, but from common sense, here are the needed guides.…

How to set VNC up on A Linux Server With Rackspace Cloud

How to set VNC up on a Linux Server with Rackspace Cloud Unmanaged Server plus tips on suitable Linux distro, which clients to use – all in one compact article. How to set VNC up on a Linux Server with Rackspace Cloud Unmanaged Server is not a naive guide,...

Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Rackspace Cloud Block Storage

Rackspace Cloud Block Storage is a Service from Rackspace to address the demand for a reliable storage Rackspace Cloud clients. Here is a Basic Users Guide. We published an article with very short introductory article in Cloud Block Storage to create new volume. But not much additional data was in the article was given about Rackspace Cloud Block Storage in that guide. In this article we will give the official links to Rackspace’s own guides on Rackspace Cloud Block Storage plus we will provide extra help...
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Sunday, 3 February 2013

Managed or Unmanaged Rackspace Cloud Server

Server boldly comes in two flavors apart from Rackspace Cloud Sites. Which one will suit you – Managed or Unmanaged Rackspace Cloud Server ? The cost of managed is $100 / month extra, but there is also other charges for Managed Rackspace Cloud Server. To your decision easier, as a long term user we are presenting you some idea to select from Managed or Unmanaged Rackspace Cloud Server. There are other Public Cloud for Hosting, but we are not considering them as most are more costly and targeted for Enterprise.

Wednesday, 30 January 2013

How to Get Started with Cloud Server

How to Get Started with Server – be it or Amazon or any brand which basically delivers Cloud Server as IaaS so you can allocate RAM yourself. This basic question How to Get Started with Cloud Server has been asked by a new user, who used Server before, but knew that, Server means a Control Panel. He tried both Rackspace or Amazon and found no way how to get started with cloud server.

Sunday, 27 January 2013

Rackspace Cloud Versus Amazon : Head to Head Comparison

Rackspace Cloud Versus Amazon or rather why you will go for Rackspace or Amazon for Private Cloud, Public Cloud, Storage, Network services or any managed service. You can check Rackspace Cloud Files Vs Amazon CloudFront if you are thinking only to compare CDN options, please check the latest prices from the respective websites as Rackspace has decreased the cost more now.

Thursday, 17 January 2013

How To Install MediaWiki on Rackspace Cloud Sites Video Guide

How To  MediaWiki on Rackspace Cloud Sites   is an add-on guide for our Installing MediaWiki on Rackspace Cloud Sites guide to  it clear. So the main previous guide on how To Install MediaWiki on Rackspace Cloud Sites Video Guide is quite important, you can click this link to open it on a new tab and watch the video in HD with earphone or headphone. Some users was complaining about the installation process. This video plus extra  here will help most of the users.…
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Sunday, 6 January 2013