Angela Bartels on September 8, 2010 |
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Cloudkick, a Rackspace Cloud Tools partner, has released their support for Windows. This comes in perfect timing with the release of Rackspace Cloud Servers for Windows. So what does this mean? If you’re running Windows on Rackspace Cloud Servers, you can now leverage the power of Cloudkick's management and monitoring tools to streamline deployment and ongoing management.
Benefits of using Cloudkick with your Windows deployment include:
Auto-scale monitoring and fault detection
Maximize ROI
Automatic data aggregation
Access to Simple, powerful tools
Click here to learn more.
Dan Di Spaltro, CTO Cloudkick, will be leading a webinar on how you can manage Windows in the Cloud. In this webinar, Dan will cover:
Installation. ...
Angela Bartels on September 8, 2010 |
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This post was written and contributed by Joseph Hofstader, Cloud Computing Architect/Evangelist for Microsoft.
Today I want to talk to you about the cloud, about developing on the Windows platform, and about how the new Rackspace Cloud Visual Studio 2010 Plug-In seamlessly ties these together. But before I get to that, let me spend a few minutes reflecting on how we got to this point. Nothing short of a revolution is underway.
2010 is shaping up to be the year all of us in the field of technology have been dreaming about for over a decade. In the late 1990s, technologies providing broad access ...
Angela Bartels on September 2, 2010 |
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This post was written and contributed by Frederick Townes, CTO of Mashable and Developer for the W3 Total Cache plug-in, a Rackspace Cloud Tools partner.
WordPress is among the most popular open source publishing platforms on the planet. Out-of-the-box it performs in any hosting environment, but with W3 Total Cache, site performance is maximized leveraging the suite of tools it provides. User experience is one of the most important factors in site success and to improve it, reducing response times of your site is vital. Studies show that the faster your site loads, the longer visitors will stay, the more pages they will visit, ...
Blake Yeager on August 31, 2010 |
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The purpose of this post is to make you aware that beginning in September, Cloud Servers customers will be billed for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) instances on a monthly rather than hourly basis. Due to changes in our subscription arrangements with Red Hat, we can no longer offer Cloud customers hourly billing for RHEL licenses. Rackspace will begin charging our customers a monthly licensing fee, starting in September. This license fee will not be prorated.
What this means for our Rackspace Cloud Servers customers using RHEL:
Instead of being billed for your RHEL license on an hourly basis, customers using Red Hat will be billed on ...
Angela Bartels on August 31, 2010 |
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This post was written and contributed by Major Hayden, Linux Systems Engineer for the Rackspace Cloud. He's also known as "Racker Hacker."
Regardless of the type of hosting you’re using – dedicated or cloud – it’s important to take network interface security seriously. Most often, threats from the internet are the only ones mentioned. However, if you share a private network with other customers, you have just as much risk on that interface.
Many cloud providers allow you access to a private network environment where you can exchange data with other instances or other services offered by the provider. The convenience of this access comes with a ...
