6 Tips For Hosting WordPress On Rackspace Cloud Sites

// December 21st, 2009 // 17 Comments » // Community

By Melvin Ram, CEO of Web Design Company

At Web Design Company, we build websites almost exclusively using WordPress. It’s a great content management system (even for websites that don’t have a blog) and allows us to give our clients a lot of control over their websites.

Recently we switched over to Rackspace Cloud Sites for all our WordPress hosting. The biggest reason for the switch was that it gives us peace of mind that if any of our websites or our … Read More >

Rackspace Cloud Files Features: Referrer Restrictions & File Manager Update

// December 18th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Development

By George Israel, Cloud Files Product Manager

Clouds can be ephemeral, but the Cloud Files team’s commitment to serving our customers is permanent. We are working vigorously 24/7, just like your websites, to roll out some of the most requested features. To that end, we have launched Referrer Restrictions for Cloud Files CDN through our API and have also made an update to the Cloud Files Manager. Read more.

Referrer Restrictions

Pirates don’t all live on the High Seas. They exist on … Read More >

The Coolest Business on The Rackspace Cloud Wins 2 Tickets to Super Bowl 2010

// December 17th, 2009 // No Comments » // Community

Angela Bartels, Cloud Maven

Everyday we see new and innovative ways customers are utilizing our cloud-computing platform to run their business. Though I might be a bit biased, I think some of the coolest applications on the web today are on The Rackspace Cloud. You’ve seen our success stories but we’ve only scratched the surface. We are eager to learn how you’re using The Rackspace Cloud. If you are doing something really cool on The Rackspace Cloud, we want to … Read More >

Rackspace Cloud Now Offers Relational Database-as-a-Service through Partner FathomDB

// December 17th, 2009 // 9 Comments » // Community, Development, In the news

Michelle Greer, Sr. Mgr. Corporate Development

The Rackspace Cloud is proud to announce its partnership with FathomDB, a relational database-as-a-service that got quite a buzz when it launched. FathomDB is a service that will make the day-to-day operations of running a database much simpler, allowing you to focus on higher end tasks of your application.  We see this as a product that will help push MySQL to do bigger and better things.  It is one of the many useful services … Read More >

ThinkFlood Opens The Flood Gates For The RedEye System On The Cloud

// December 15th, 2009 // No Comments » // Community

Angela Bartels, Cloud Maven

With multiple tech devices in your home – television, stereo, DVD player, etc – comes multiple remote controls. Not only does it get confusing but often times, you lose them! ThinkFlood designed the RedEye system specifically to solve this problem.

With the RedEye system you can use your iPhone or iPod touch to control your TV, stereo, cable box, DVD player, and many other devices that receive standard (infrared) signals. ThinkFlood thinks of it not just as … Read More >