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 ...

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 ...

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 conne...

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 attemp...

I've heard that Capistrano supports deployment to multiple servers, but I haven't found a practical way to set it up. When I say multiple servers I mean servers running the same application in a pr...

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 l...

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 requirm...

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 d...

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 depl...

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...