A Questionable Thing

yevgeny — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 07:49:02 +0000

Rackspace Cloud Files CDN will redownload your file from the US storage every time you put something new after the question mark:

http://[container].cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/object,
http://[container].cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/object?something,
http://[container].cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/object?something-new.

You’ll end up having a low download speed for those URLs even though they point to one file.

So, the front side of Rackspace CDN thinks these are different objects. And the source Rackspace server sees no difference between the URLs.

This behaviour is a traffic waste.

Rackspace Cloud iPhone Client

yevgeny — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:17:08 +0000

There’s an official iPhone application to manage your Rackspace Cloud account. As of today, it’s not very useful. I’d like to mention some functions which the app v. 1.1 currently lacks.

You can neither stop nor destroy Cloud Servers.
No price list for server instances.
No usage stats.
For Cloud Files there is no option to view a public URL of a file or to see a CDN container identity. You can do it only with an ‘Email Link to File’ option.
No ‘refresh’ button in ‘Servers’ menu, which means you can’t quickly see when a server was created. And, strangely, even after reopening of the app, you will see your new server only in a couple of minutes. There is no such lap in Rackspace Cloud management panel.

What this app allows you to do is basically create new server instances. But ongoing development promises that the app will be more flexible.

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A Questionable Thing

Rackspace Cloud iPhone Client