Rackspace CEO Makes America’s 15 Most Powerful CEOs 40 And Under by Forbes

// February 26th, 2010 // No Comments » // Events

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 Castle (Rackspace headquarters), we get to see more of Lanham and he always brings a smile to the face of a Racker. Not a day … Read More >

Should You Switch To NoSQL Too?

// February 25th, 2010 // 10 Comments » // Development

By Jonathan Ellis, Systems Architect

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 to maintain NoSQL database,” and you should seriously consider using something explicitly designed for that instead.

While there are other reasons to … Read More >

Scaling Your Monitoring With Scout

// February 25th, 2010 // No Comments » // Cloud Servers, Cloud Tools

By H. Wade Minter, Cloud Integration Consultant

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 article will show you how to use the Scout “Cloud Image” feature to have your new servers automatically monitored. … Read More >

The Rackspace Cloud Partner Program Is Here!

// February 24th, 2010 // No Comments » // Announcements, Community

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 Rackspace Cloud podcast to learn more of what we’re up to. If you’re interested in cloud computing and want to be a part of this … Read More >

Networking and Cloud Servers – More On The Interfaces

// February 23rd, 2010 // 12 Comments » // Cloud Servers

By Nicolas Keller, Cloud Architect

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 possible to request more public IP addresses (via ticket) and assign them to the interface. Having more than one IP address per public … Read More >