Questions tagged [rackspace-cloud]
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Prevent spoofing - SPF, DKIM, DMARC in place
I am just a developer handling this issue for our small organization, so apologies in advance if I have missed anything obvious.
We use Rackspace Cloud as our email provider. Our emails started going ...
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Apache stopped accepting external requests after restart
I'm hosting a clients wordpress site on a CentOS 7 server, with apache 2.4.6, hosted behind a cloudflare proxy. I set everything up about 8 months ago, and it has been running fine ever since.
At ...
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Rackspace Cloud Server built from base Windows 2012 R2 Image is Rebooting Unexpectedly
I've recently spun up several new Windows 2012 R2 cloud servers on Rackspace, using their base Windows 2012 R2 image (without SQL server), and in each case the servers suffer from random/unexpected ...
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Handling Massive Outlook Data Files
I have recently inherited a mess of an IT system (we don't even use a domains and group policy despite having a server).
One major problem I am coming across frequently though is that users' Outlook ...
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Rackspace cloud loadbalancer
I have a website and related services running under a Rackspace's Cloud Load Balancer. In my DNS setting I have pointed my domain (say example.com) to the IP of this load balancer and it works fine.
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CoreOS: Inject a real private IP in etcd2 cloud-config
I have three networks on Rackspace:
Public network
Service network 10.181.XXX.XXX (they call it a private network sometimes but it is not private per-se, it is datacenter-wide private so their ...
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In a LAMP stack, what are some obvious ways to utilize ephemeral SSD storage? [closed]
Here I'm talking about cloud servers (from any vendor) which feature some amount of ephemeral SSD storage. When working with standard images, by default this ephemeral SSD storage is wasted and not ...
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Sync files between AWS S3 and Rackspace cloudfiles [closed]
I am looking for a solution for syncing files between AWS S3 and Rackspace Cloudfiles on a regular basis. Preferably, using a third party service or low maintenance self-hosted solution.
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How to reduce snapshot size
I'm taking a snapshot of a server running in rackspace each day and initially it was 1GB, then around 25GB when actual disk space used was that amount. I then moved data from the boot partition to ...
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cloud-init not executing on rackspace cloud
I was trying to pass a bash script to cloud-init on rackspace-cloud with 'nova boot' via --user-data. I used the following command:
nova boot --key-name mykey1 --image "Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) ...
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How can I tell which server I've been load balanced to?
I want to test some configuration changes to one-way synchronisation between two servers that sit behind a load balancer (this is all Rackspace Cloud infrastructure FYI). The problem I have is that I ...
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Linux 'df' command not showing root filesystem?
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 at Rackspace. What could cause the root fs to not appear here?
# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
none 4 0 4 0% /sys/...
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PCI scan showing false positives on cloud-based server [closed]
I've run a third-party PCI scan recently on my website, and my main domain cleared 100%.
The IP address, however, came up with some strange errors. It was claiming we were vulnerable to XSS attacks ...
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How does one test DNS performance on their webhost vs. a 3rd party dedicated service?
I have been hosting my dns with rackspace for years, formerly slicehost but I have been looking into a 3rd part host, as a result of running various speed tests, such as tools.pingdom.com to test the ...
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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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HTTPS health monitoring on rackspace cloud load balancer
I was using rackspace cloud load balancer to switch between two of my nodes. It was basically a active-passive setup in which the switch would take place in case primary node fails the http health ...
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How to manage resources in a multi-cloud service environment?
I am trying to setup an environment which will allow our development team to centrally manage all our cloud-based resources/services available.
I have already looked at a variety of tools, but I am ...
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MySQL shutting down without warning, out of memory?
I'm scratching my head on this. I have New Relic tracking, and my log files on the server, but MySQL keeps stopping, and all I have is this when I check logs, New Relic has nothing. Only thing I'm ...
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Rackspace Cloud Server / DB - getaddrinfo failed
I recently migrated my MySQL instance from my debian server to a cloud database server at rackspace. A couple times of day since then, I notice in the log files that we have the following error:
PHP ...
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Why would PHPMyAdmin connections fail when connections from the same server with the same credentials succeed?
I have a site hosted on Rackspace Cloud. It runs Joomla 2.5, some test scripts, and PHPMyAdmin 4.1.6. Joomla runs off a database hosted in Rackspace Cloud. The host is mysql50-[redacted].wc2.dfw1....
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Reclaiming Space That 'df' Says Should Be Available
I have a linux server hosted on one of Rackspace's CloudServers and it is showing that I have both no room available, yet also shows I have 12GB not used on the root partition. This server's only job ...
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For EC2 and RackSpace Cloud: Is there a Windows equivalent of Unix 'CPU steal time'?
This thread has a great write up relevant for hyper-V. But it is very hyper-V specific. It does not address how to measure cpu steal on Win servers in EC2 and RS Cloud environments (I have tried the ...
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How to download the saved images in the Rackspace cloud server?
I wonder if someone know how could I download the saved server image in a Rackspace cloud server. I have been searching and nothing found even in the Rackspace knowledge base. I know it is stored in ...
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KeepAliveD, Rackspace Cloud, Unicast - both LB's enter MASTER state...?
I have set up two HAProxy Load Balancers in an Active->Passive pair.
KeepAliveD will be used for failover between MASTER and BACKUP servers.
Like most clouds, Multicast is not supported so I cannot ...
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how to restore cloud site on rackspace from files container [closed]
I have backed up my cloud site using http://www.zipitbackup.com/. It creates a backup file in Cloud sites/Container . Now i need to restore my site using this backup file.
I don't find documentation ...
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Backup files served on a cdn
I am thinking about using a CDN to serve my static files, rackspace cloud files to be exact. I am wondering is it normal to backup these files? Is there even a way to back them up?
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Varnish caching layer vs load balancer
We have around 10-15 different websites which at the moment are hosted on two Rackspace cloud servers with 4GB RAM. These two servers are totally independent of each other, we randomly choose a ...
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Why does my load balancer add the header "Via 1.1 localhost.localdomain"
My load balancer (a Rackspace Cloud Load Balancer instance) adds the Via header with these values:
Via 1.1 localhost.localdomain
What does this mean and is it harmful?
Note: According to another ...
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How can I allow traffic only from my load balancer, if the private IP of the load balancer changes all the time?
I'd like to limit (via iptables or otherwise) inbound traffic on 80/443 to traffic coming from my load balancer. I have the public IP (which doesn't change, of course), but the only private IP info I ...
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mod_cluster reports "MEM: Can't read node" and "All workers are in error state" for JBoss AS 7.1.1 cluster
I am trying to configure a JBoss AS 7.1.1 cluster in domain mode with mod_cluster at the apache2 proxy. All hosts are running Ubuntu and are Rackspace Cloud Servers.
My problem is that when I hit my ...
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Identity management for cloud servers (specif: Rackspace cloud): How?
We have a growing number of instances on rackspace cloud. A mix of about 2/3 windows (2008 and 2012) and 1/3 linux.
Managing all the logins discretely is a pita.
Is there a straightforward way, even ...
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PaaS on top of Cloud
This question may sound stupid and if it does I appologise.
Is it possible to build a service like PagodaBox (PHP PaaS) on top of a virtualised enviroment such as Rackspace Cloud or AWS EC2 etc? Or ...
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mdadm: Growing a RAID0 Array Weirdness
I have created 3 RAID0 arrays using mdadm on 3 Rackspace CloudServers using Rackspace's CloudBlockStorage as their devices. Each array has their own set of CBS volumes. RS-CBS has an upper limit of ...
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RackSpace CreateImage API using curl is not working
Whenever i m trying to create image from the given api using curl -:
curl -i -X POST
https://lon.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.1/xxxxxxxxx/servers/xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxx-...
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Unable to install rsync on mycloud.rackspace.com
I'd like to install rsync to do daily backups of my client's server account, which was recently migrated to mycloud.rackspace.com. Rackspace does have a tutorial implying it can be installed in the ...
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Raid1 disk degraded after reboot
I'm testing a Rackspace cloud server and have two Cloud Block Storage volumes set up in a Raid1 configuration.
There are no system files on these volumes, they're purely for storage. Everything ...
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Incremental backups from Rackspace Cloud Files to Amazon Glacier [closed]
Is there a software product/module (open-source or commercial) that can provide incremental backups from Rackspace Cloud Files to Amazon Glacier?
We are looking for something that will provide the ...
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Guaranteed HTTP forwarding frontend service (reliable cloud load balancer) [closed]
My situation is fairly simple and, I guess, it's encountered fairly often. I have several projects which all look pretty much the same - a single project consists of:
Static content servers - there ...
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How Do I Set Reverse DNS for Rackspace Next Generation Cloud Servers?
The dashboard for Rackspace's next generation of servers doesn't have an option to set the reverse DNS for a cloud server. You have to use the Rackspace Cloud API. How do I use the API to set up the ...
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Can connect to shared folder on a Rackspace Cloud Windows Server 2012, but access denied when accessing
I have a Windows Server 2012 (non-domain) with a folder that's shared out as TestShare.
The share permissions are Everyone has full access, and there is a local user TestUser that has full access to ...
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FTP Server with MySQL access, and POST notification
Im looking for an FTP server solution, that we can host either internally on a dedicated server, or on Rackspace Cloud/AWS, that provides a HTTP POST notification when a file is uploaded, and allows ...
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Unable to send mail to hotmail from rackspace cloud
I'm having issue sending mail from postfix on a rackspace cloud instance for my domain.
Hotmail says "550 SC-001 (SNT0-MC4-F35) Unfortunately, messages from 198.101.x.x weren't sent. Please contact ...
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Application to monitor traffic spikes on cloud server?
I was wondering if anybody knew of any software (preferably free if possible) that monitors server traffic for spikes? Something that, say, might send out notifications via email or anything for that ...
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raxmon equivalent for load balancer ssl termination on rackspace?
Looking into RackSpace SSL termination and realizing the API to configure SSL termination is extremely bare.
Before I get started writing a client, does anyone know if there is something out there ...
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Calculating Cloud Service Costs [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can you help me with my capacity planning?
I would like to scale a web application to the Cloud and wanted to know if anyone had any experience calculating costs and could ...
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Rackspace Cloud Monitoring API
I was looking at the cloud monitoring API guide of Rackspace. If anyone has already been through it and/or has used it, can you please tell me whether it is possible to get stats relating to average ...
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Is it possible to serve files from Rackspace Cloudfiles from nginx?
I'm storing a bunch of content in Rackspace's cloudfiles, and I need to serve that content to the client, but securely. It's not like these are super secret files, but putting them on a publicly ...
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Does either Rackspace or AWS provide APIs for billing information?
By billing, I mean real-time usage and consumption statistics - the API for which can be used to generate custom reports, forecast expenditure, etc.
I see that AWS has the facility to generate custom ...
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Do I need an SSL certificate if all traffic is being redirected to another secure domain?
I currently use a CNAME to silently direct all traffic for http://cdn.domain.com to my Rackspace Cloud Files domain at http://cxxx.rxx.cxx.rackcdn.com.
Now I also want to silently direct all HTTPS ...
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Retrieve data from the failed Windows Server on Rackspace Cloud Server
One of our Windows Server 2008 servers which was hosted as a Cloud Server on Rackspace has recently failed. We are not getting much help from the Rackspace support, all they keep saying is that ...