Tagged: cloud server hosting

Rackspace Cloud Server: End of Support for some Linux Images

Just got this message from Rackspace.com that effecive December 5, 2011, they will be stopping sale and support for some older Linux distribution images in their Rackspace Cloud hosting offerings.  Hopefully, this means more recent Linux distrubutions are supported including CentOS 5.7, 6.0, 6.1. Hello! Currently, the following Linux Distributions...

Amazon AWS outage in April explained

The Amazon AWS outage on April 21st, 2011 brought down many popular sites including Reddit, Foursquare, HootSuite, Quora and Buddy Events app for Facebook. There’s been many blogs and web sites with write ups analysing the reasons why the Amazon AWS outage occurred but I came across what I consider...

Rackpace.com Cloud Server – CentOS 5.5 64bit install and setup

Virtual cloud server hosting services make it alot easier to test new server installations and setups. I created a new Rackpace.com Cloud server 4GB/160GB disk instance powered by single Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processor 2374 HE with CentOS 5.5 64bit linux operating system to migrate and test my custom bash shell...