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Caching For The Holidays
Around the holidays, getting cash for a gift might make you think that the person didn’t put a lot of thought into your present. However, in the world of server configurations, giving cache to your customers is probably one of the best things you can do.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Nov. 7, 2012 by Joseph Palumbo
Scaling For The Holidays
The holidays are right around the corner and I want to make sure that you aren’t stressed out about your online configuration. So let’s start looking at how to prepare for the holiday rush as soon as possible. Today I will talk about scaling for the holidays.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Nov. 5, 2012 by Joseph Palumbo
Prepping For The Holidays
With the holidays fast approaching, you’ve probably got a lot on your plate. But before the stockings are hung with care, there’s a lot of work that needs to be done to make sure that your configuration can handle the surge of holiday traffic that starts before Black Friday and continues until the first week or so of the New Year. I’ve made a list, and checked it twice, of topics that can make this a less stressful holiday season for you. Over the next couple of weeks we’ll talk about:
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Nov. 2, 2012 by Joseph Palumbo
Teach A Man To Fish
There are paradigm shifts that occur with the release of any new technology. This holds true for hosting in the cloud as opposed to more traditional dedicated hosting. Before we get into those differences, I want to talk about something else: fishing.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Oct. 8, 2012 by Joseph Palumbo
Cloud Features You Need To Configure
When our customers come to us to setup a cloud environment, they are excited and ready to build their configuration. While you can do some amazing things in the cloud, there are a couple of things that you are going to want to configure. When I get to visit with customers, I have found that these points come up often so I wanted to write a post to make sure that you configure them.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Oct. 1, 2012 by Joseph Palumbo
First Five Things To Consider When Starting A Cloud Project
Whenever you start up a Cloud Server project, there are a lot of things that you need to consider. At Rackspace, we wrote a Knowledge Center article called “The First 48” which goes into detail of everything you need to do when you get started using the Cloud Servers platform. However, I thought I would shrink it down a little bit and give you what I think are the first five things you should consider.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Sep. 24, 2012 by Joseph Palumbo
Comparing Your Cloud Options At Rackspace
One of the number one questions that I get from prospective customers is, “Which Rackspace cloud product is right for me?” We have three main cloud hosting offerings here at Rackspace: Cloud Sites, Cloud Servers and Managed Cloud. Understanding what each product does might be a little confusing, so to explain the differences I like to use a photography analogy.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Sep. 17, 2012 by Joseph Palumbo
Zen And The Art Of Cloud Computing: Cache Is King
One of the major advantages for people to move to the cloud is cost savings; and a way to improve those savings even more is by caching your content.
Filed in Cloud Industry Insights on Sep. 10, 2012 by Joseph Palumbo
Load Balancers in the Cloud
With the cloud, solutions that were once only affordable to the largest organizations are now cost effective solutions for small and midsized businesses. Cloud load balancers are one of these things.
Filed in Product & Development on Feb. 15, 2012 by Joseph Palumbo
How Rackspace Managed Cloud Supports You
One question that I commonly get is, “So how exactly does Managed Cloud support my business.” There is a lot of documentation on our service level and what we actually do, however, for this post I wanted to give a very high level analogy of how Managed Cloud delivers support to you and your organization.
Filed in Product & Development on Feb. 9, 2012 by Joseph Palumbo
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