Installing Free Web Control Panel OpenPanel on Rackspace Cloud is a detailed step by step video guide to demonstrate how easy it is to get a smart control panel. OpenPanel is a free cPanel like Control Panel that can be installed on unmanaged Rackspace Cloud Server to add / remove domains, add FTP and other things from a GUI. Introduction to Installing Free Web Control Panel OpenPanel on … [Read more...]
Installing SoundManager2 With Great 360° Player
Installing SoundManager2 now has great looking 360° Players with Spectrum/EQ visualizations. Can be embeded in WordPress. Source Code is same of SoundCloud. Obviously, without a Content Delivery Network, the loading will be slower. We recommend to use a streaming CDN like Akamai, Rackspace Cloud Files etc. Please provide time for reading this guide. Each and every sentence is … [Read more...]
Installing Gitlab on Rackspace Cloud Server
Installing Gitlab on Rackspace Cloud Server is the first text guide for our series on Gitlab originated from the article - Options of Installing Gitlab for Code Hosting. We provided the idea on how to calculate the cost of hosting on Cloud platform - its indispensable , specially if you are a new user. Installing Gitlab on Rackspace Cloud Server is a bit complex if you are habituated to install … [Read more...]
Installing Gitlab for Code Hosting on Cloud : Options
Installing Gitlab for Code Hosting on Cloud Server can reduce the cost of maintenance. Here the practical technical points and requirements are discussed. Previously we discussed about the options for Free Project Hosting and Code Hosting for the developers. The terminology 'developers' now has been expanded and not necessarily means only the professionals who has university degree (s) for being a … [Read more...]
Install Lightweight CMS SkyBlueCanvas on Rackspace Cloud Sites
Install Lightweight CMS SkyBlueCanvas on Rackspace Cloud Sites easily. SkyBlueCanvas is driven by PHP and data is stored as XML. No MySQL database is needed. Anyone can really modify PHP or even use HTML within PHP, so the customization is easy. Rest is dependent on CSS and graphical parts. This guide, how to install Lightweight CMS SkyBlueCanvas although written for Rackspace Cloud Sites, the … [Read more...]
Web Music Player of Your Own : Free and Self Hosted
Web Music Player of Your Own Comes as Absolutely Free of Cost, you can host on any free Cloud Storage service which supports to serve HTML webpage like dropbox. You can upload your own music and play on any device from computer to mobile devices. You can change the appearance by changing the CSS and image files. Web Music Player of Your Own : The History The original version was a … [Read more...]
Free Software versus Open Source Software
Free Software and Open Source Software are not the same. Free Software does not mean it comes free of cost but to study and change the source code or design. You have heard that, lot of companies now arriving in a different avatar for commercial purpose. They are dangerously abusing the users' freedom, practically cheating with a subtitle like "Open Source Toothpaste Company". Today it is very … [Read more...]
Password Protection with htaccess on Rackspace Cloud Sites
Password Protection with htaccess on Rackspace Cloud Sites needs few extra steps to do otherwise the method is same that is normally done for any Apache2 webserver. Rackspace Cloud Sites is Application Platform as a Service (aPaaS) primarily targeted for hosting PHP-MySQL based web softwares including CMS and blogging softwares. Password Protection with htaccess on Rackspace Cloud Sites is … [Read more...]
Is PaaS Model of Cloud Computing is the Future Mainstream ?
Is PaaS Model of Cloud Computing is the Future Mainstream ? The question arises in the current situation, where bare PaaS services like Heroku Cloud or a kind of PaaS platform like AppFog, Red Hat OpenShift offering Web Interfaces for direct software installation, when Cloud Application Platform as a Service like Rackspace Cloud Sites are attracting from the developers to a web store owner, may be … [Read more...]
Practical Solution for Cloud Computing Platforms
Practical Solution for Cloud Computing Platforms right now are either Infrastructure as a Service or Platform as a Service. There are many providers to choose. But which cloud computing solution is right for you ? Do not forget that, there are Weaker Sides of Cloud Computing. Plus, providers will always want to get the most from the clients. Introduction to Practical Solution for Cloud … [Read more...]
Building Your Own PaaS : Introduction
Building Your Own PaaS is easy as one can use any suitable Infrastructure as a Service and prepare the required servers to run any Open Source PaaS software. This is named as Introductory article for Building Your Own PaaS as we want to give you the options and possibility and in subsequent guides, we will gradually provide you the step by step guides for some of the options for Building Your Own … [Read more...]