By Brandon Woodward, RHCE In this article, I will walk you through creating a simple software load balancer using our Cloud Servers product. This is an entry-level job using simple readily available packages from any of the distributions repositories. I’ll be using Apache as our load balancer (Apache can be used as many things including [...]
Michelle Greer, Sr. Mgr. Corporate Development Rackspace took a lot of feedback in terms of its cloud API and we are seeing a fair amount of activity around it. Here are a few submissions to our cloud tools site and in GitHub that will make building other tools for our cloud a lot easier: Compass [...]
Cooking a turkey this holiday season? Maybe you want to make those famous pumpkin bars that were so popular last year but can’t find the recipe. Or perhaps you are vacationing overseas and want to learn how to make the ethnic foods you tasted on your fabulous trip for when you return home. If you’re [...]
The cloud makes it so easy to deploy servers on the fly. That’s why it’s key that your monitoring software is easy to deploy and works as fast as you do. The Rackspace Cloud has decided to partner with Scout, which allows for easy-to-deploy application and server monitoring in multiple languages. What else is cool [...]
Michelle Greer, Sr. Mgr. Corporate Development Cloud computing will fuel the next generation of bigger, stronger, and faster applications and is critical to evolving how we utilize computing and the world wide web. The cultural implications of being able to deploy servers on the fly and scale up and down so quickly and affordably are [...]
