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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. ...

Open Source Amazon EC2?

Are there any open source applications that provide a set of features similar to that of Amazon EC2 or Rackspace Cloud? Basically, I want a tool that I can install on one or more servers that works with a virtual machine monitor like Xen and lets me create, destroy, and clone virtual machines on the fly using some sort of API. ...

Rackspace Facebook Application Error

I have an application running on facebook now.. and now, I duplicate the exact same thing with mostly the same server config in Rackspace. HOwever, when I run the app in facebook, I get this: Exception Error Code: 1 Message: An unknown error occurred #0 /home/www/entouragela-dev.sector3gamez.com/site_prod/_library/facebook/facebookapi_...

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? ...

Accepting emails from domain with wildcard subdomain

I'm setting up an app to preform mailhooks. You create an account, assign a callback url, and a pattern to match. Then you get a subdomain that you can send email to. Something like accountname.mail.appdomain.com. This is how it might work. Pattern: ^(?P\w+)-reply$ Account: accountname Callback: http://www.someotherapp.com/reply/crea...

Does RackSpace have a read-write file system?

I deployed a Ruby on Rails app to Heroku, and I realized they have a read-only file system (http://docs.heroku.com/constraints#read-only-filesystem). This means I can't cache images locally, for example. I was using a Ruby gem called "Rio" (Ruby Input/Output), and that let me save files to my /public/images directory. Are there any go...

Why is loading an image timing out in application on RackSpace

I have 30 seconds to load this image, and it seems to be taking longer on Rackspace, but not when I run it locally. If I go over 30 seconds then the load balancer ends the request, so I get an error. The code is pretty simple: Image Logo = Image.GetInstance(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(@"~\images\logo.bmp")); I have it running ...

What projects have a similar aim to the libcloud project, and how mature are they?

libcloud is a standard client library for many popular cloud providers, written in python: http://incubator.apache.org/libcloud/ ...

Rackspace Cloud Sites: Compute Cycles exploding. Very expensive.

Hi All, Since last week my compute cycles (CC) went through the roof (Rackspace Cloud Sites). Normally I stay under the 10,000 cycles per month . Now this month I already have more than 75,000 compute cycles. I don't have more visitors and I did not change anything in the code. I looked in the raw log files, that didn't help either... ...

Rackspace cloud files: Image Upload to rackspace cloud files using PHP

I am doing a project where user can upload images like profile image or image for their image gallary. right now its uploading all the images to my server. Now, i want to upload all this image to my rackspace cloud files directly using php script. For example: user select a file press submit with some information the selected file w...

RackSpace Cloud Strips $_SESSION if URL Has Certain File Extensions

The Situation I am creating a video training site for a client on the RackSpace Cloud using the traditional LAMP stack (RackSpace's cloud has both Windows and LAMP stacks). The videos and other media files I'm serving on this site need to be protected as my client charges money for access to them. There is no DRM or funny business like ...

Image Upload to rackspace cloud files using PHP

I am trying to upload file to rackspace cloud file using the following code: Upload.html <form action="upload.php" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="POST"> File: <input name="upload" type="file" /> <input name="submit" type="submit" value="Upload To Rackspace!" /> </form> Upload.php <?php // include the API requir...

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...

Mono and Apache are serving files with no ASP.NET processing

On a new Rackspace Cloud Server box (Ubuntu 9.10), I've installed apache2, libapache2-mod-mono, and mod-mono-server2. I've disabled mod_mono and enabled mod_mono_auto, but whatever I do, requests for Default.aspx return the actual contents of Default.aspx (in this case, "This is a marker file generated by the precompilation tool, and sh...

How do i remove a file from Rackspace's Cloudfiles with their api?

Hey, I was wondering how do i remove a file from Rackspace's Cloudfiles using their API? Im using php. Devan ...

Rackspace Cloud Sites Apache Server Variables

Ran into an issue with the server variable HTTPS not being set when .htaccess was processed. I found the answer here: http://cloudsites.rackspacecloud.com/index.php/How_do_I_force_SSL_on_my_PHP_site%3F but my question is, what other variables may not be set or have different results than expected? I'd rather have a definitive lis...

SecurityException when creating new FileInfo on Rackspace

I'm getting the following exception when uploading a file to Rackspace Cloud Files: Security Exception Description: The application attempted to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy. To grant this application the required permission please contact your system administrator or change the application's t...

newline in Rackspace Cron Job email

I'm running backups against multiple databases hosted at Rackspace. This is working fine. The problem I'm running into is with the results email. I'm using Response.Write to write a message to the web page which is used for logging and is also consumed by the results mail sent out by the job. The problem is I can't seem to get newlines t...

Reading a document from Rackspace CloudFiles using API

Hi - i have been using RackSpace CloudFiles to store certain images. I have the upload code working perfectly but when I try and read the image from CloudFiles it wont display it. The images wont render into the browser. The file is definitely being read as I can see the actual data from it but if I try and put in a header to render it o...

Confused by PHP session problem (Rackspace)

My PHP session fluctuates between different values for no apparent reason. here is my test code that proves it: <?php //test.php ini_set('display_errors',1); error_reporting(E_ALL|E_STRICT); session_start(); print_r($_SESSION); ?> When I refresh that test.php, the $_SESSION has different values (about 3 different arrays in total),...