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Copy (down) Rackspace Cloud File bucket to a local directory?

How do I copy (down) a Rackspace Cloud File bucket to a local directory? Or better yet, how do I update a local directory to be a copy of the RS bucket? There are plenty of tools for uploading or ...
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infrastructure for search engine app [duplicate]

We have a search engine app with ruby on rails + mongodb and users perform many searches constantly. Our search engine is elasticsearch. Our application is translated into 32 languages ​​and have ...
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how to make my Linux to listen on his public ip rather than the private IP

I have a virtual machine on some public cloud. the physical IP is not routeble. the ISP provided for me with a public IP and the NAT is being done using the ISP FW. on that Server I'm running ...
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Can a Dedicated Server Configuration for LAMP Hosting be Done “in the Cloud”? [closed]

Right now, one of our product offerings is basically LAMP web hosting. We host a PHP CMS, lots of images, and sometimes WordPress in each Apache host–all across multiple linux dedicated boxes. Our ...
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unable to login in stackops [closed]

I have new installation of stackops distribution. When I tried logging into the stackops portal with user information "head/stackops"(as described in the documentation) , but it says "invalid user". ...
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Application-transparent encryption among cloud-deployed servers

I'm a software engineer and not necessarily an ops guy aside from having done a developer's share of dealing with deployment issues. The individual components of the web app I'm working on will be ...
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How to make a vm scale when demand for resource increases

i am having a server with 16 virtual core and 24G RAM,using Xen virtualization and ubuntu as dom0 Created 4 VMs (in para mode),each with different applications. CPU Load vary on each vm,somtimes ...
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Mounting shared memory in XCP/ XEN Server,for storing VM

Requirement vm with 2HDD each 1gb OS will be installed on hdd 1 and required data on HDD 2 I want all my VM running on Xen Cloud Platform XCP 1.1 to use /dev/shm of host machine for HDD1. Is ...
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What are my options with a downloaded Rackspace cloud image?

I've got an unresponsive Rackspace slice that has defied all attempts at accessing. I created an emergency image from this and deleted it, downloading the files that compromise the image to a local ...
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Making a mini-cloud at home, using a few Ubuntu boxes [closed]

I'm looking to make a sort of at-home mini-cloud. I have several Ubuntu boxes lying around and thought I'd make them into something useful. I'm being a little vague on purpose since I'm not quite ...
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How can I configure Munin to give me a “total” view of all my cloud servers?

I have a dozen load balanced cloud servers all monitored by Munin. I can track each one individually just fine. But I'm wondering if I can somehow bundle them up to see just how much collective CPU ...
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Possible to per file encrypt cloud storage?

With the many cloud storage providers that there now exist, would it be possible to add a layer of encryption before the files are saved? It would be possible to make an encrypted partition in a ...
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Install vmplayer on cloud [closed]

Can you please let me know on this. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10234475/vmplayer-on-centos6 It was closed there as off topic. Hope this is the right place for this question.
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Linux/Windows for Java cloud application? [closed]

The idea is to host an Java application server in a cloud service. The application is more memory/processor bound than I/O (disk,network). Understanding that each case is different, is a JAVA ...
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Is there any way to run linux non locally for a big group of people?

we want to use a custom linux distro over the internet with Gui for some simple tasks (mainly writing running simple python programs) and not something very computationally intensive. At its peak ...
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Is it more stable to run Ubuntu 11.04, Natty Narwhal on EC2?

For example, Instagram said "We run Ubuntu Linux 11.04 (“Natty Narwhal”) on Amazon EC2. We’ve found previous versions of Ubuntu had all sorts of unpredictable freezing episodes on EC2 under high ...
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Bridging Virtual Networking into Real LAN on a OpenNebula Cluster

I'm running Open Nebula with 1 Cluster Controller and 3 Nodes. I registered the nodes at the front-end controller and I can start an Ubuntu virtual machine on one of the nodes. However from my ...
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Dedicated server or Cloud Hosting [closed]

I just finished the BETA version of my Web SaaS application, it provides more than 15 service to WP users. Programming language : PHP 5 DB : MySQL 5 I used Codeigniter framework. The application ...
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How to use a cloud to host web sites?

To host web sites currently we are using dedicated linux boxes hosted in the UK. But managing them is a nightmare, backups, massive loads, downtime etc... I was looking into OpenStack which was ...
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Pros/cons cloud vs real servers [closed]

We need to change our hosting provider and we are evaluating various solutions. My company has a cluster of 8 linux servers, configured as follow: 2 load balancer (high availability) 2 web server ...
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Simple Linux server benchmark?

I am working on a product which will run on customer's Linux servers. These systems vary in capability greatly and I'd love to have a single benchmarking tool which I could ask them to run to get an ...
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How to host a single website on multiple geographically-diverse servers

I currently have 2 servers, using cPanel/WHM. The first one is a VPS hosted in London (we'll call it "international") and the second one is a dedicated server located in my country (we'll call it ...
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What web server / plat form should I use? (Cloud / virtual / dedicated / shared)

Hi I am an experienced website developer but have not had much experiences of hardware server con fig. I am starting a new job and need to sort out the companies website requirements. They need php ...
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How can we protect data on managed hosts(vps, cloud, etc)?

These hosting facilities tend to be great, they are cheap and work well compared to other alternatives. Though while being cheap, there is a compromise to be made and I want to know if there is a way ...
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encryption on AMIs for Cent OS?

We wanted use encrypted for 10GB partitions on AWS cloud using Cent OS i have following Cent OS following link to do that http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/EncryptedFilesystem After attaching 10GB from ...
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Creating a Linux cluster/cloud to act as a server

I have about four or five machines in the Pentium 3-4 era and I'm interested in creating a Linux server comprised of these machines. The server's main purposes would be to host several low-medium ...
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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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How can a programmer manage multiple (geographically disparate) linux machines?

I am not an admin, but I have to manage around 10 linux servers. These servers are all over the world, some are used as production servers, others as staging or development servers. Currently there ...