https://www.justincarmony.com/tags/rackspace/ Recent content in Rackspace on Justin Carmony Hugo en-us Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:19:40 +0000 https://www.justincarmony.com/2010/12/30/cloudfiles-with-cdn-hosts-clipish-library/ Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:19:40 +0000 https://www.justincarmony.com/2010/12/30/cloudfiles-with-cdn-hosts-clipish-library/ <p><a href="https://www.justincarmony.com/images/wp/2010/12/rackspace_logo.gif"><img src="https://www.justincarmony.com/images/2010/12/rackspace_logo-150x150.gif" alt="" title="rackspace_logo"></a>Over the last two days we&rsquo;ve moved our <a href="http://www.clipish.net/">Clipish</a> Library from serving the files locally on our web server to <a href="http://www.rackspacecloud.com/cloud_hosting_products/files/">Rackspace&rsquo;s Cloud Files</a> service. It is similar to <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/s3/">Amazon S3,</a> however since we were already using Rackspace Cloud Servers, we thought it would be easier to just keep it all under the same roof. The actual changes in code for using Cloud Files only took about 2 hours, but I had to write a script to loop through our entire library and populate Cloud Files with our current library. What is great is in the future when we add items, our code will automatically add files to Cloud Files via their API. Here is our network graph after switching (Item #3):</p>