Central page for documentation http://docs.rackspace.com/
Network
I needed to use internal network to communicate first generation server and new generation server , to fix the routing table the racker send me this article
http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/updating-servicenet-routes-on-cloud-servers-created-before-june-3-2013
on linux ubuntu I have resolved this problem
I have used the procedure with the script and its update only the internal network so there are not interruption of service
If you disconnect the public network from a server and after you reconnect again you obtain different public ip
Backup & Snapshot
For those information there is a separate page Rackspace Backup and Snapshot
Storage
after attach a volume to a server are necessary some things to be operative http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/prepare-your-cloud-block-storage-volume
Cloud Files
to move data from a linux machine to cloud files service there is a simple utility https://github.com/cloudnull/turbolift all information on readme
cost of the service http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/files/pricing/ can be interested facing with s3 cost http://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/
Performance Server
This new kind of server, will be give with two volume disk. One the system disk and the other is the data disk.
Rackspace suggest some things
- in windows the data disk is not ready to use, so you mus partition and format, there is a guide for this here http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/preparing-data-disks-on-windows-performance-cloud-servers
- use the data disk for all kind of data of the sql server: master, model, and tempDB
- memorize in the data disk all the data of the websites , except if you are using an auto-scale with very small machines
- use cloud backup for this volume, the image don't backup the data volume http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/getting-started/cloud-backup
vyatta vrouter
It's possible change the default behavior of rackspace, instead to connect the server directly to the network with public ip address is possible use this particularly rackspace server called vyatta like router firewall vpn system.
- to use is necessary upgrade the type of account from here http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/vrouter/
- some good faq are here http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/brocade-vyatta-vrouter-faq
- a guide that explain how it works is here http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/accessing-rackspace-services-via-isolated-networks-through-the-vyatta-network-appliance
from the command line it is a bit like the cisco ios command line. I think that the amazon web interface is more simple to understand and use. I avoid this solution it's to complicated
api rest
Reboot a server from command line
very interesting
https://gist.github.com/kenperkins/8225306