Rackspace Cloud Server boldly comes in two flavors apart from Rackspace Cloud Sites. Which one will suit you - Managed or Unmanaged Rackspace Cloud Server ? The cost of managed is $100 / month extra, but there is also other charges for Managed Rackspace Cloud Server. To make your decision easier, as a long term user we are presenting you some idea to select from Managed or Unmanaged Rackspace … [Read more...]
Cloud Hosting and Management of Downtime
Cloud Hosting and Management of Downtime of a particular web hosting company, problems of server is not reachable happens for a thousand different reasons. Contrary to what you might think this is quite normal for a Cloud Hosting company, we say that there are providers that are able to provide a service with 100% uptime. Cloud Hosting and Management of Downtime : What … [Read more...]
Amazon Cloud Computing : Why it is a Danger to Hosting and Web Services
Amazon Cloud Computing is a Danger to Hosting and Web Services. What must be clear is that Amazon Cloud Computing is expanding rapidly, perhaps too much which is never good. Our previous article on Reasons Not To Use Amazon Cloud Computing was basically discussed the matter around the technical and software structure parts, but this article on Amazon Cloud Computing is purely business … [Read more...]
Downloading or Cloning a Full Website in OS X and Linux with wget
Downloading or Cloning a Full Website in OS X and Linux with wget can make it fully static and you can deliver it from any CDN like Rackspace Cloud Files. This method for Downloading or Cloning a Full Website in OS X and Linux needs wget and for needs Mac OS X 10.8.x you need to fix the command line first. We will show this guide using OS X 10.8.x with iTerm2 and OhMyZSH as shell, not default … [Read more...]
Cloud Computing Market is Not Just the Cloud Services
The cloud computing market is growing rapidly. But the scenario in which we live is made not only of cloud service providers, but also of many companies working in related services, covering the greatest needs of businesses and professionals who have to use a cloud computing platform or possibly its more about Cloud Services or Software as Services rather than Cloud Computing. Cloud … [Read more...]
Installing ISPConfig 3 on Rackspace Cloud Server
Installing ISPConfig 3 Free Webhosting Panel that comes with BSD License. Here are necessary commands for Installing on Debian or Debian derivatives like Ubuntu. There is another good Free Web Hosting control panel named OpenPanel, installation process for OpenPanel was described in our previous guide Installing OpenPanel on Rackspace Cloud Server. Definitely one can use or install any web … [Read more...]
Managing and Delivering Podcast Audio and Video From WordPress
Managing and Delivering Podcast Audio and Video From WordPress can be easily be done in an advanced setup plus you can use CDN or deliver YouTube Video as well. This is the third and last article on installation and series on Podcast. In the first article we have explained about what is Podcast, in the second article, we have shown how to install Podcast Generator, a web software for generating … [Read more...]
Installing Podcast Generator on Rackspace Cloud Sites
Installing Podcast Generator on Rackspace Cloud Sites is actually quite easy. Creating a sub directory or subdomain installation for Podcast keeps it clean. In our previous article, we have described about the technical part of Podcast and Podcasting. Installing Podcast Generator on Rackspace Cloud Sites will enable you to generate Podcast separately - in other words, if you are not using a CMS or … [Read more...]
Google Compute Engine : Get Started
Google Compute Engine has a provision to get a limited free preview after filling a survey like form. Let us look at the form as well as the technical backend. It is noteworthy to mention that, Google Compute Engine is Infrastructure as a Service or IaaS which was announced by Google on Mid 2012. Google Compute Engine uses KVM as the hypervisor and has normal Unixoides like CentOS. Unlike other … [Read more...]
ROI Analysis and Costs of Lock-in of Cloud Services
ROI Analysis and Costs of Lock-in of Cloud Services are needed to to find the true value of the return on investment in cloud or rather shifting to Cloud. We discussed before about Return on Investment (ROI) and the potential risks of Lock-in effect that is associated with Cloud Computing. This article, ROI Analysis and Costs of Lock-in of Cloud Services basically combines these two divergent … [Read more...]
Installing WordPress on Debian Rackspace Cloud Server
Installing WordPress on Debian Rackspace Cloud Server is a detailed text plus video guide explaining the commands for each steps and the advantage of symlinks. We have other guides for installing WordPress on Rackspace Cloud Unmanaged Single Server. This guide Installing WordPress on Debian Rackspace Cloud Server is for the advanced users, we do not recommend to follow this guide for installing … [Read more...]