Cloud Computing

Recursive DNS is what Google and other Public Services provides to run recursive query for which the DNS server will fully answer the query. When we visit a website on the Internet, suppose this website, irrespective of the Operating System, the computer will find the address via Domain Name System. When we are using our home computer to browse the internet, it will request each website address … [Read more...]

We test all the existing cloud computing services without affiliate link. We definitely can compare Rackspace, DigitalOcean and Amazon IaaS. There are clearly two groups - one group is shouting "DigitalOcean is a threat to Amazon IaaS" and the other "DigitalOcean Does Not Really Compete With Amazon IaaS", but what is the real feel? Most importantly, can DigitalOcean be compared with Rackspace … [Read more...]

Yes! You can actually monitor, set alarm for your Rackspace Cloud Server from free OpenShift PaaS with a great project named rxalarm. OpenShift PaaS and OpenStack IaaS. As a practical statement, a good read will be - Cloud Computing Service Models for those who can not understand the difference between PaaS and IaaS. We can run OpenShift instance of our own (not hosted by Red Hat) on Rackspace … [Read more...]

As with anything in this World, Software Defined Storage (SDS) also has some defined characteristics. Explained in plain English. Software brings intelligence to the IT infrastructure and architecture. On this trend of everything being defined by software - we have talked about Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) before. Now, quite a few storage hardware vendors try to jump up and claim that they … [Read more...]

Mover is an online service which can migrate files from one cloud service to another. It Supports almost all popular cloud storage services. When we are talking about Cloud Storage Service, one can read an interesting article - Quality Comparison of Cloud Storage Services. After PRISM and HearBleed reveals, we have to take only few Cloud Storage services are dependable. There are enough reason to … [Read more...]

Enable Varnish Cache Purging on Ubuntu 14.04 PVHVM on Rackspace Cloud Server. This settings is important for WordPress plus W3 Total Cache. We started from here - Install WordPress on Rackspace Cloud Server (Ubuntu 14.04 PVHVM). It is quite important to read this guide - Advanced Tweaks and Optimization for Varnish Cache before you read this article. We usually deliver websites via load balancers. … [Read more...]

Github is Under Pressure. Our analysis can show you how much Gitlab and RhodeCode bundled with OpenShift PaaS made them thoughtful. Github is a high priced closed source model for code hosting. The brilliant looking design does not worth the high value of the web interface for Git. Github is expecting a decline, an obvious decline is usage is assumed - the recent changes in Explore, attacking … [Read more...]

RhodeCode is a Management Tool for Mercurial and GIT. It is easy to customize with online editor and have pull, push support. We used Gitlab for Code Hosting on Cloud for example for source code management. We talked about the Common Terminologies in Revision Control which is helpful to any level of user and developer alike. But today, we will talk about a Source Management Tool for both Mercurial … [Read more...]

Rackspace clears the compatibility and usage of OpenStack with VMWare vSphere at EMC World for on Premise and Cloud Platform. Kenneth Hui, OpenStack Ambassador and a VMware vExpert gave some answers on Rackspace Official blog focussing on the difficulties that many administrators face when they realize that OpenStack is a platform which is of such great importance that it can not be underestimated … [Read more...]

Cloud Consulting Can Determine Whether it is Worthwhile for the Customers to Use a Cloud Solution. With Cloud Consulting, can we find out whether the existing infrastructure is suitable for the decision or not. It is not possible for all to know about Cloud Computing even with brief details or the existing Cloud Computing Service Models and Deployment. The topic cloud computing in recent years … [Read more...]

Varnish Cache usually works the best out of the box. However, minimum tweaks and optimization can make Varnish to work better with WordPress. When we are talking bout WordPress, obviously W3 Total Cache configuration comes in to question - because W3 Total Cache has separate option for configuring W3 Total Cache for Varnish. So, how should we pass the page requests to get the maximum out from … [Read more...]