Using Ink » VPS http://usingink.com Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:56:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Rackspace Cloud iPhone Client http://usingink.com/2009/12/rackspace-cloud-on-iphone/ http://usingink.com/2009/12/rackspace-cloud-on-iphone/#comments Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:17:08 +0000 yevgeny http://usingink.com/?p=57 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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