We are very excited to have our very own CEO, Lanham Napier, make the Forbes’ list of America’s 15 Most Powerful CEOs 40 And Under. Lanham is always engaged in the Racker culture and it’s never a surprise to see him go around our office giving high fives. Since the Rackspace Cloud moved into the [...]
With Twitter going public with their plans to switch to Cassandra, a lot of people are asking if they should switch too. Ian Eure from Digg (also switching to Cassandra) gave a great rule of thumb last week at PyCon: “if you’re deploying memcache on top of your database, you’re inventing your own ad-hoc, difficult [...]
As a longtime Unix sysadmin, I’ve beaten my head against more system monitoring tools than I care to remember. However, I’ve recently been playing around with Scout, a hosted monitoring solution, and have been very impressed. As a bonus, I discovered a cool feature that makes monitoring clusters of cloud servers much less time-consuming. This [...]
Cloud computing was listed as one of the top 10 Web Trends for 2010 in a recent CNN article written by Pete Cashmore. It’s only February and it’s already been a very busy year for the Rackspace Cloud with our release of Cloud Servers for Windows Beta – listen to our latest State of The [...]
Last week, I mentioned that each and every Cloud Server comes with two interfaces. In this post, I’d like to explore them. The Public Interface The first interface is the Public one (usually eth0 on a Linux system). This interface comes directly connected to the Internet and with one public IP address. It is also [...]
