Shortly after the 1.03 release Rackspace Cloud Files Sync has been updated to version 1.04 and was just released minutes ago. Rackspace Cloud Files Sync is a small application one can use to create a online backup of any directory on your Windows PC. It’s also possible to restore a backup back to your hard disk. Its main [...]

Rackspace Cloud Files Sync has been updated to version 1.03 and was just released minutes ago. This release fixes a critical bug that made the application freeze when syncing with an existing directory. The source code has also been licensed under the Modified BSD License. Rackspace Cloud Files Sync is a small application one can use [...]

Rackspace Cloud Files Sync has been updated to version 1.02 and released. This release fixes a critical bug that made the application crash when syncing with an existing directory. Creating backups and restoring them to any folder should just work again now. However, due to some strange and yet unresolved bug the responsiveness of the [...]

Rackspace Cloud Files Sync 1.01 was released today. Due to undocumented changes in the Cloud Files API the Sync application stopped working. Making backups and recovering them should now work again once more.

I’ve updated htbaapub.rackspacecloudfiles to version 1.08 to support the undocumented changes to the Cloud Files API. This release depends on the version 1.04 of htbaapub.rest.

I’ve just released a new version of WebService::Rackspace::CloudFiles, namely version 1.01. It should appear on your favorite CPAN mirror soon. If you really can’t wait you can get it from GitHub. This releases fixes some issues with HEAD requests. Although the module fully implemented the specification supplied by Rackspace it turned out that their specification [...]

After a few months (81 days to be precise) of using Rackspace Cloud Servers I’ve decided to move to a normal VPS server. My new provider will be Tilaa, a Dutch company. They’re cheap and quality so far is great with great Ping times. I’ve disabled comments for the time being. As soon as you’ll [...]

A month has passed since I’ve moved to a Cloud Server from Rackspace and so far I’m pleased with the whole experience. It did take a bit of tweaking before I got everything working the way I wanted. This mostly consisted of properly configuring PHP FastCGI as it’s a big resource eater. Another help was [...]

Wanted to share that Rackspace has an excellent collection of configuration guides for Ubuntu 10.04 server. Aside from Ubuntu they’ve got guides for every other big Linux distribution as well, such as Fedora, Red Hat, Debian and CentOS. I don’t use those distributions myself but thought it would be nice to mention it. Check their [...]

Yesterday the provider that hosted my blog let someone loose on the MySQL database causing my website to be unavailable. It was that very moment I decided I had enough of shared hosting. I’ve moved the website to a Rackspace CloudServer, which basically is a VPS of which I have full control. It’s a lot [...]