5 May
Hello Everyone,
Today we sent out our first Newsletter. We are currently testing the system to ensure there are no bugs in future newsletters, so we’ve kept this month’s newsletter short and sweet.
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Missed out on May’s Newsletter? You can view it here.
23 Mar
We’ve received a couple of emails lately asking “what is Cloudapp.net, I keep seeing it in URLs but I can’t find any information about it?”. Well, we’ve done our research for you.
It is part of Microsft’s Azure Cloud service which ‘provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage web applications on the internet through Microsoft® datacenters.’
More information on this service can be found here.
24 Feb
Midphase are soon to launch their new Cloud platform which may well follow the same kind of structure of VPS.Net which is also part of the UK2.Net group, although they are keeping all details under wraps at the moment.
Whilst they are not giving much information away about the Cloud platform they have said “Get More Bang For Your Buck!” – so could we be looking at a new cheap Cloud VPS supplier? Only time will tell.
We will keep you up to date as this develops.
19 Jan
Ever mistakenly deleted the wrong VPS? With VPS.NET you can now recover your VPS within 48 hours – all done automatically! Unfortunately after 48 hours your VPS will be permanently deleted though.
Source VPS.net
“The recovery time for a deleted VPS takes just as long as creating a new VPS. There’s no support tickets required; it’s all entirely automated, making things totally easy for you, and removing any chance for embarrassment.
Now the coolest part of all of this (and my favorite when introducing a new feature) is there is absolutely no charge for using the recovery service. No charge for making it available, and definitely no charge if/when you need to use it. All of it’s totally free.”
Enjoy
6 Jan
8 Aug
We have been busy over the last couple of months and we are pleased to annouced we have completed our review of Gigenet Cloud Servers. As with all of our reviews we actually test the services ourselves with live websites to bring a first hand experience of the service which we believe is important to help you make an informed decision when choosing your Cloud Server provider.
You can find the review here: Gigenet Cloud Server Review
We hope you find the review useful.
11 Jul
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VPS.NET will soon be adding the Windows operating system to their support cloud servers.
A recent post of the VPS.NET Blog states:
I wish we could be sitting on the beach, sipping Pina Collates, talking about how awesome Windows is on VPS.NET. Unfortunately the launch didn’t happen – not yet at least. I can’t even tell you how close Windows is to being ready. Even as a Mac user, I’m ridiculously giddy with excitement thinking of the Windows launch. For those of you who like an ETA, I’m told that Windows WILL be ready to go next week. Again, we’re just waiting on hardware.
We will keep you up to date!
7 May
Win An Ipad
VPS.Net are giving away an Ipad.
For you chance to win all you have to do is send them a postcard (presumably a local one). We believe this competition is open to everyone from all countries. It is also open to users that do not currently use VPS.Net.
Not only that you will get $10 off your next hosting bill (or $10 off your first month if you are a new customer).
The Rules Are:
For more information click here.
10 Apr
We have searched the Internet to show you that a range of sites can use Cloud Files whatever the content is.
Homeoogle Screenshot
Homeoogle allows you to customize your Google™ homepage with wallpapers. All the wallpapers appear to use Rackspace Cloud Files.
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tweetmeme.com Screenshot
TweetMeme is a service which aggregates all the popular links on Twitter to determine which links are popular. Tweetmeme seems to be using a mixture of Amazon s3 and Rackspace Cloud Files.
4 Apr
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You may have seen our previous blog post here for uploading files to Rackspace Cloud using the PHP API. Despite the relatively easy script it wasn’t plain sailing for us and we had to troubleshoot a number of errors. We wanted to share our fixes with you as we couldn’t find any resolutions on Google.
The first error we got was;
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'InvalidResponseException' with message 'Unexpected response (): ' in /home/uname/public_html/rackspaceupload/cloudapi/cloudfiles.php:206 Stack trace: #0 /home/uname/public_html/rackspaceupload/upload.php(12): CF_Authentication->authenticate() #1 {main} thrown in /home/uname/public_html/rackspaceupload/cloudapi/cloudfiles.php on line 206
Now from the error message you would assume that it has something to do with your username or API key due to it mentioning the authentication function. Although if it was an issue with authentication you would probably see ‘AuthenticationException’ as the exception. In this case we found that Curl Open SSL was not installed despite having Curl installed. So ask your server administrator to install it for you if you receive this error.
Another big error we got was;
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'BadContentTypeException' with message 'Required Content-Type not set' in /home/uname/public_html/rackspaceupload/cloudapi/cloudfiles.php:1645 Stack trace: #0 /home/uname/public_html/rackspaceupload/cloudapi/cloudfiles.php(1962): CF_Object->_guess_content_type('/tmp/phpyese5G') #1 /home/uname/public_html/rackspaceupload/upload.php(19): CF_Object->load_from_filename('/tmp/phpyese5G') #2 {main} thrown in /home/uname/public_html/rackspaceupload/cloudapi/cloudfiles.php on line 1645
This error took us a very long time to figure out, with some help from Rackspace Support we finally reached a resoltuion. We solved this by doing two things, first we installed the PECL Fileinfo Module, this module is to get file information, we the needed to install the PHP module ‘mod_mime_magic’. This then solved this issue and we can now upload to Rackspace Cloud.
Got another error? Having trouble resolving these errors? Fell free to leave a comment below and we will offer you any advice that we can.
We accept no responsibility for anything that happens to your server if you follow our advice, we are just supplying you with information on how we solved these issues.