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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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.

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.

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

Just click on the banner below and use coupon TURNK30 at the checkout. You can see our review of this service here.

You can find the review here: Gigenet Cloud Server Review

We hope you find the review useful.

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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!

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:

• The post card MUST be post marked by June 4th.
• It has to feature a location or land mark.
• Your email address must be on the post card.
• Only one email address can be on each post card.
• One $10 discount per client.

For more information click here.

Homeoogle

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Homeoogle allows you to customize your Google™ homepage with wallpapers. All the wallpapers appear to use Rackspace Cloud Files.

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Tweetmeme

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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.

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We are having trouble finding more examples of CDN Files Clouds. Do you own a site that uses a CDN Files Cloud? Let us know and we’ll put your site up here! Contact us below:

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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.