Cloud Computing

Frequently readers ask us how much Rackspace cost? Rackspace does not cost much with the quality of products they offer. You can save good money. We have no affiliate links to any service provider in this website. For free or lesser cost PaaS - either Heroku or Openshift. OpenShift is easy to use. Rackspace is not for junk websites, it is a premium service. Rackspace manually verifies the account … [Read more...]

This is brief introduction to Nova-Agent, which runs as daemon on OpenStack Public Cloud like Rackspace. If it does not start, dependent services will fail. In previous article, we talked about fixing patching ShellShock Bug, but we have not said that Xen Virtualization had some bugs too, which was so sensitive, globally all including Rackspace Patched and Restarted the Servers. With one level up … [Read more...]

Here is a guide to Shellshock Bash Vulnerability Patch for Infrastructure managed Rackspace Cloud. You should be careful about Nova-Agent. Rackspace obviously has official guides on their community forum plus you can always open a ticket or ask via chat to fix the issue. Rackspace, for other reasons is restarting the servers. As during upgrade, you'll need to replace the boot files (in case of … [Read more...]

Companies need dynamic Cloud Enterprise Content Management strategy developed to combine collection, retention and use of the business documents. Many companies are faced with a dilemma, because the amount and variety of unstructured content is continuously increasing. The staffs create a steady flow of documents such as emails, web content, media files and transactions. Companies need to capture … [Read more...]

Cloud Document Management System are computer programs, used to track, store documents and usually capable of keeping track of revision. Previously, we wrote about Enterprise Content Management (ECM) on Cloud. The concept of document management (including Cloud Document Management System) is the database-driven management of electronic documents. For better differentiation (EDM, Electronic … [Read more...]

It is more important to pick a good cloud computing platform than spending few thousand dollars for optimization. Number of experts are limited. We usually provide tips and tricks which can lesser the budget or potentially save hard earned cash. There are various self proclaimed advisors are available who practically can push towards a wrong path for the hope or realization of a better Page Speed … [Read more...]

OpenStack Marconi and Zaqar is a multi-tenant cloud messaging service. It has semantics to support event broadcasting and has RESTful API. Previously, we talked about Rackspace Cloud Queue, PUSH Technology and practical example of Push with unrelated service - OpenShift Hosted AeroGear. Here is a basic guide to OpenStack Marconi, which possibly will help some starters.   OpenStack Marconi … [Read more...]

This guide shows how to set CORS Header in Rackspace Cloud Files to Allow or Restrict usage over HTTPS protocol and how to get the headers. We talked about CORS in a previously published article. We can set CORS Header in Rackspace Cloud Files on individual files as well as container (quite difficult method) and purge the file, cURL to check the headers.   CORS Header in Rackspace Cloud … [Read more...]

Who Should Use Bare Metal and Who Cloud Platform? Definitely there should be should be some logical criterion to choose the right platform. Our reference Bare Metal is Rackspace OnMetal® and Cloud Platform is by any giants - preferably running OpenStack Cloud Computing Software. 128 GB Bare Metal can cost the same like a Cloud Server instance. Basic difference is in usage. Like Dedicated Servers … [Read more...]

A considerable impact of Shellshock Bash Bug on the Cloud Computing Service providers has been seen. Here are the technical details. Shellshock is the name of the dangerous bug that plagues the Bash shell, the utility which is widely used in all UNIX, Unix-Like systems in clouding our Mac (OS X). Those who do not have idea about UNIX Shell can read this article. And the news regarding the … [Read more...]

Here is how you can enable PHP-FPM Status Page for Nginx using Ubuntu as OS on Rackspace Cloud Server. It can throw error with improper setup. Indeed, this status page is quite important but has some security vulnerabilities as it might be checked by the Public using simple GET request. Hence, we suggest the readers to follow the method on dev setup first.   PHP-FPM Status Page for Nginx … [Read more...]