Articles relating to the Rackspace cloud products.
If you create a virtual machine using the CentOS 7 image, you will initially be able to log in but if you perform a system update and then reboot, you may well find you are […]
Install XWiki and all dependant programs on a 4 GB cloud server. This means: 1) Java 2) Tomcat 3) MySQL/MariaDB 4) XWiki 5) Nginx Here we use Nginx as a reverse proxy to firstly redirect […]
Log into the Rackspace cloud control panel and click on on the DNS tab at the top of the screen. Then click on Create Domain, fill out the details, and click Create Domain again to […]
Rackspace provides a great easy to use tool for managing your DNS. The first thing you need to do is create a zone file for the domain you want to manage. To do this, first […]
Rackspace cloud load-balancers allow you to easily distribute the traffic across multiple nodes. Every time you create a new cloud server, it is assigned a new public IP address. If you were to image that […]
First you need to prepare the machine that you are going to use. I’m using a Rackspace cloud server. In which case, all I need to do is spin up a server and update the […]
Assuming you’ve already “spun-up” a Linux cloud server of your choice, the first thing to do is update the system. Here I’m using Ubuntu Server 13.10. SSH onto your box with the below command, replacing […]
To avoid any unnecessarily high Rackspace bills, make sure you delete any unused cloud servers or products. Here I have three servers. One is in production, another is occasionally used for testing and development. I […]
Assuming you’ve already created yourself a Rackspace cloud account and that you’ve just logged in, you will see a list of cloud servers (if you have any yet). These are your current servers. If a […]
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