Which SaaS or Web Application You Can Deploy Using Cloud Files ?

Which SaaS or Web Application You Can Deploy Using Cloud Files and How to Proceed to deploy such Apps using OpenStack features, Command Line and wirh GUI. Rackspace Cloud Files looks like a simple Content Delivery Network, but actually it is quite efficient to run small Apps hosted on it itself, that is without the need of another server.

 

Which SaaS or Web Application You Can Deploy Using Cloud Files ?

 

You can have an idea of very basic web Apps we deployed before using Rackspace Cloud File,  this will give you a fair idea about which SaaS or web application you actually can deploy using Cloud Files. Keep in mind, we have not shown all the advanced features of Cloud Files, which is actually build up on Open Stack.

 

Serving Full HTML Website From Rackspace Cloud Files CDN

Rackspace Cloud Files and Bootstrap

Cloud Files Hosted Music Player of Your Own 

 

For proper understanding and usage or rather finding the answer to which SaaS or Web Application you can deploy using Cloud Files, you basically need to understand Language Bindings and Python Clients of OpenStack :

 

 

The core administration will not let you know the full configuration of Cloud Files, which is actually Akamai, just from our one of the above mentioned App’s (Music Player) analysis on WebPageTest :

 

 

 

Which SaaS or Web Application You Can Deploy Using Cloud Files : It is Not a Bland Storage

 

Rackspace Cloud Files is actually configured in the way, some what like Private Cloud Instance, if you publish a container, only it will be publicly accessible, else it will ask for userid password / credentials.

Another very informative webpage is :

 

 

For CDN purpose, we always use that tick mark to make it public, most never uses the hidden features. Apart from OpenStack documentation, you must look at Rackspace Cloud Files dev guide on official web page, check GitHub etc. For information, Cloud Files supports query URL for authentication in a web form – this is important simply because if you want to authenticate an entry data of an user with SSL, you can easily do it free of cost, using the HTTPS url of Cloud Files. By the way, Cloud Files supports Git.