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mosso versus gogrid which is better?

I have reasonable experience to manage my own server, so gogrid style management is not a problem. But seems mosso is a tag cheaper somewhat- except the very difficult to access compute cycles terms. Anyone could share about this would be very welcomed. ...

Anyone actually using Mosso Files (Amazon S3 competitor)?

We have a bunch of data on S3 (images) but just started reading about Mosso Files (rackspace). Sometime this month they are going to add CDN capabilities so any file you upload is part of the limelight CDN. Anyone using this service, it's not as well documented or publicized at S3. ...

I have a mysterious PHP SOAP error on my host, but can't duplicate locally

I've run across an interesting PHP/SOAP error that has me stymied. After searching I have not found a plausible explanation, and I'd appreciate your help. Here's the background: I have a site built in PHP/CodeIgniter which uses SOAP to communicate over SSL with a back-end system provided by a third party (let's call them "Company X" to ...

python upload - where are tmp/FILES ?

hi, I'm running python 2.4 from cgi and I'm trying to upload to a cloud service using a python api. In php, the $_FILE array contains a "tmp" element which is where the file lives until you place it where you want it. What's the equivalent in python? if I do this fileitem = form['file'] fileitem.filename is the name of the file ...

Anybody tried mosso CloudFiles with Google AppEngine?

I'm wondering if anybody tried to integrate mosso CloudFiles with an application running on Google AppEngine (mosso does not provide testing sandbox so I cann't check for myself without registering)? Looking at the code it seems that this will not work due to httplib and urllib limitations in AppEngine environment, but maybe somebody has...

404 redirect with cloud storage

I'm hoping to reach someone with some experience using a service like Amazon's S3 with this question. On my site we have a dedicated image server. And on this server, we have an automatic 404 redirect through Apapche so that, if a user tries to access an image that doesn't exist, they'll see a snazzy "Image Not Available" image. We're...

CakePHP Email Does Not Send on Mosso Cloud Sites

I have uploaded a working Cakephp web application to Mosso Cloud Sites hosting. The application is working fine except that emails are no longer being delivered. The site is an exact copy from my previous host, where sending email was working correctly. The app uses the built in Cakephp email component. I have searched Mosso's knowledgeb...

Mosso Python Module

Hello, Has anybody had success installing the Mosso (cloudfiles) python module? I'm trying to install it and getting the following error. python-cloudfiles-1.3.1]# python setup.py install running install running build running build_py running install_lib byte-compiling /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/cloudfiles/container.py to contai...

Ideas on making cross domain requests from cloud storage

Hi, say you are hosting some .js and html pages up on some providers cloud storage option, amazon, mosso, etc... And I wan't to call a web service from javascript. I'm looking for some ideas on this. Thanks ...

Can I set headers to download a file from a remote location, eg CloudFiles

For example, if I set some headers to download a file from my server I would do header('Content-type: application/pdf'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="downloaded.pdf"'); And then just output the data of the file Is it possible to set a remote url in the Content-Disposition? Example header('Content-Disposition: a...

Is cloud hosting the way to go for a 1 man development team?

I am building a .NET MVC web application. Is cloud hosting the way to go for a 1 man show? Since StackOverflow runs off a simple 2-node setup, and can easily be doing 1 million page views/day, does cloud hosting even make sense until one gets to that level? Do you think cloud hosting will really take away the server hosting side of thi...

Using a CDN to store/serve user image uploads?

Hi everyone, I'm still new to the whole CDN ideaology, so this might be a stupid question but I'm sure someone can shed some light on this. I've got a basic php script that takes user image uploads, resizes them, creates a directory ($user_id), and stores the finished product in the directory (like www.mysite.com/uploads/$user_id/image...

Which .NET and PHP CMSs are able to run on Rackspace Cloud CloudSites (formerly Mosso)?

Well the title says it all. I have scoured the internet to find which CMS's run on CloudSites and the only definitive information I have found is on RackspaceClouds knowledge base http://help.rackspacecloud.com/article.php?id=383 Only BlogEngine, DotNetNuke & AspDotNetStoreFront are listed. Does anyone know of any others? ...

Microsoft Reporting DLLs in medium trust environment

My host Rackspace Cloud Sites have a modified Medium Trust environment. One of our legacy applications which we are moving onto the server uses the following DLLs: Microsoft.ReportViewer.Common.dll Microsoft.ReportViewer.ProcessingObjectModel.dll Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms.dll Microsoft.ReportViewer.WinForms.dll My understanding...

Rackspace Cloud rewrite jpg causes session reset

This may be the .NET version of this question. I have an image script with the following: ... Response.WriteFile(filename); Response.End(); I am rewriting .jpg files using the following rewrite rule in web.config: <rule name="Image Redirect" stopProcessing="true"> <match url="^product-images/(.*).jpg" /> <conditions> <add in...

Can iTextSharp rasterize/export to JPEG or other image format?

I need to be able to export PDF's that I am creating to JPEG, so that users can have a screenshot/thumbnail of the end product, which is faster than opening the whole PDF. I am running this on an ASP.NET website running in Medium Trust in the Rackspace Mosso Cloud. I have yet to find a library that will either work in Medium trust, or ...