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3-2-1 backup rule for the cloud

About Cloud Server images

About regions

Add a Cloud Network interface to a Cloud Server

Add a disk to a cluster shared volume on a Windows failover cluster

Add a Linux user with document root permissions

Add a new WordPress user

Add a user to the local administrators group in Windows Server 2012

Add an additional RDP license to Windows Server 2012 R2

Add and remove GlusterFS servers

Add and remove roles and features on Windows Server

Add disk space after resizing a Windows Server 2012 Cloud Server

Adding an IP to a Windows Server

Address Cloud Computing Security Concerns with Private Cloud

Advanced security steps for Linux

Allow web traffic in a firewalld software firewall

Allow web traffic in iptables software firewall

Allow web traffic in ufw software firewall

Apache Cannot be Started After Reinstall

Application and load testing guidelines

Attach a Cloud Block Storage volume to a Windows OnMetal server

Back up your files with rsync

Base service commands

Basic application pool troubleshooting

Basic firewalld firewall management

Basic iptables firewall management

Basic Linux directory permissions and how to check them

Basic Linux User Management

Basic Nginx troubleshooting

Basic settings in the Postfix main.cf file

Basic types of Linux users and how to check them

Basic ufw firewall management

Best practices for firewall rules configuration

Bind mount an SFTP user after using chroot

Bind mounts in Linux

Block an IP address on a Linux server

Block an IP address on a Windows Server

Block IP range from countries with GeoIP and iptables

Boot a server from a Cloud Block Storage volume

Build your application on the Rackspace cloud

Capture packets with tcpdump

Change a Linux server's hostname

Change the kernel version on a Linux cloud server by using rescue mode

Change the MySQL timeout on a server

Change the SSH Port in CentOS and Red Hat

Change the SSH Port in the Linux Ubuntu operating system

Changing Linux permissions

Check database for corruption

Check for a security compromise: back doors and intruders

Check for a security compromise: Rescue mode investigation

Check for Windows Updates in Windows Server 2016 and 2019

Check Linux configuration files for syntax errors

Check Linux file permissions with ls

Check listening ports with netstat

Check network connectivity on a Linux server

Check port use in Linux

Check Rackspace Cloud status

Check running services on Linux

Check the System Load on Linux

Check the version of Wordpress in use

Check Windows Server uptime

Checking Linux Repositories and Logging

Checking your Network Connections on Linux

Choosing your cloud server flavor

Cloud Backup—Basic troubleshooting on Windows Server 2012, 2016, and 2019

Cloud Feeds FAQ

Cloud Feeds overview

Cloud server emergency console

Cloud server image limitations

Cloud Servers

Cloud Servers FAQ

Cloud Servers PCI-DSS compliance

Cloud-to-cloud migration

Command-line Elliptic Curve operations

Command-line text editors in Linux

Common Windows issues: Key Management Server activation

Common Windows issues: Why resetting a password fails on a domain controller

Complete a CSR in IIS

Compression and archive methods in Linux

Configure Active Directory performance monitoring

Configure Active Directory with integrated DNS

Configure always-on MSSQL server failover clusters

Configure an IIS FTP site

Configure an Internet Connection Firewall for IIS

Configure Apache for SSL termination on a Cloud Load Balancer

Configure Apache on the Ubuntu operating system

Configure basic security

Configure flash drives in High I/O instances as data drives

Configure load balanced sites with SSL offloading by using IIS

Configure Log Shipping for MSSQL Server

Configure MariaDB server on CentOS

Configure MSSQL database backups

Configure MySQL server on the Ubuntu operating system

Configure MySQL source-replica replication

Configure MySQL source-source replication

Configure password expiration in Windows

Configure vhosts on a LAMP stack

Configuring IP Security in IIS

Connect to a cloud server

Connect to a cloud server with Filezilla by using SFTP

Connect to a MySQL database remotely

Connect to a server by using SSH on Linux or Mac OS X

Connect to Linux from Mac OS X by using Terminal

Connect to Linux from Windows by using PuTTY

Connect to your OnMetal Server through cloud-init

Considerations for migrating to a General Purpose or I/O cloud server

Copy files with SCP and Rsync

Create a chroot jail

Create a cloud server

Create a DNS Server

Create a general purpose Cloud Server

Create a Linux swap file

Create a new user and grant permissions in MySQL

Create a site-to-site IPsec VPN connection between Vyatta and FortiGate

Create a sudo user in CentOS

Create a sudo user in Ubuntu

Create an image backup (cloning)

Create an image of a General Purpose v1 Cloud Server

Create an image of a server and restore a server from a saved image

Create an Inbound port allow rule for Windows Firewall 2008

Create and configure a user in MSSQL

Create and delete local users on Windows Server

Create and drop roles in PostgreSQL

Create and edit users in MySQL

Create and remove swap files in Ubuntu

Create CentOS NGINX virtual hosts

Create files by using the command line in Linux

Create OnMetal Cloud Servers

Create redirects in Nginx

Create scheduled tasks on a Windows server

Create your first website on Cloud Servers quickly

Create, manage, and delete users and groups in Active Directory

Creating Apache redirects

Cross-Reference Origin Sharing (CORS)

Delete downloaded Windows updates

Design and build Cloud Servers for stability

Detailed Permissions Matrix for Cloud Feeds

Determine DFSR staging quota

DFS replication installation

Differences Between Hardware and Software Firewalls

Differences Between nobootwait and nofail in Linux Filesystems

Disable a virtual host in the Ubuntu operating system and CentOS for Apache and Nginx

Disable Desktop Activity Moderator

Disable HTTP compression on Apache servers

Disable HTTP compression on Apache servers

Disable maintenance mode in Magento

Disable TCP Offloading in Windows Server 2012

Disable the administrator user in Windows

Disable third-party applications with a clean boot in Windows

DocumentRoot location in CentOS

Domain redirect types

Dovecot on RHEL/CentOS based distributions

Drop tables in MySQL

Enable file downloads in Internet Explorer

Enable PHP cURL on an Ubuntu LAMP stack

Enable services in Linux

Enable SSH public key authentication

Enable SSH remote root login on CentOS and the Ubuntu operating system

Enable SSL and Remote Connections for MySQL

Enabling TLS 1.2 on a Windows Server

Ensure servers reboot successfully

Expand and shrink volumes with Disk Management

Extend a volume in Windows Server with diskpart

FAQ for Seamless sign-on between MyRackspace and the Cloud Control Panel

Force a password change on the next login

General package installation guidelines

Generate a certificate signing request

Generate RSA keys with SSH by using PuTTYgen

Get started with Cloud Servers

Get started with GlusterFS - considerations and installation

Get started with Magento on Debian 10

Get Started with Tasksel on Debian

Get support by using Live Chat

Get the database size in MySQL

Grant sudo access in Debian and the Ubuntu operating system

Grant sudo access in RHEL and CentOS

grep basics

Group Policy fundamentals in Active Directory

Guide to Windows resource monitoring

Hidden base images

High CPU caused by Sophos in Windows

High Performance Computing Cluster in a cloud environment

High-level steps for migrating from Amazon Web Services

How to Easily Write Commands Using the Powershell cmdlet Show-command

How to enable SSL/TLS perfect forward secrecy in Apache or Nginx

How to keep SSH sessions alive

How to monitor system authentication logs in Ubuntu

How to resolve MySQL service starting and stopping unexpectedly

How to run chkdsk in Windows

How To Use journalctl to View and Manipulate Systemd Logs

How to use MySQLTuner in Linux

HTTP response status codes

IIS SNI overview

Import a MySQL Database

Import Database to a Local MySQL Instance

Increase the size of a cloud boot-from-volume server system disk

Install a LAMP stack on Debian 10

Install a LAMP stack on Debian or Ubuntu-based distributions

Install a LAMP stack on Fedora 31

Install a LAMP stack on RHEL 6-based distributions

Install a LAMP stack on RHEL 7 based distributions

Install a MariaDB server on CentOS

Install Active Directory Domain Services on Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise 64-bit

Install Active Directory on Windows Server 2012

Install an SSL certificate

Install and configure FTP and SFTP by using Filezilla

Install and configure phpMyAdmin

Install and use the Lets Encrypt Certbot utility on CentOS 7 with Apache

Install Apache and PHP on CentOS 7

Install Apache on CentOS 8

Install Apache on Debian 10

Install Auter on CentOS 6

Install EPEL and IUS repositories on CentOS and Red Hat

Install FTP on Windows Server 2012 (R2)

Install fwbuilder

Install GitLab on CentOS 7

Install GitLab on Debian 10

Install GitLab on Ubuntu 18.04

Install IIS and configure a website

Install IIS on Windows 2012

Install IMAP for PHP 7.1 on the Ubuntu operating system

Install licensing services to Cloud Servers for Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 to prevent a licensing error

Install MySQL on Windows Server 2008 R2 and 2012

Install MySQL Server on the Ubuntu operating system

Install Nextcloud on Debian 10

Install Nextcloud on Fedora 31

Install Nginx on CentOS 6

Install Nginx on Fedora

Install Nginx on Ubuntu

Install Nginx on Windows

Install PHP modules

Install PHP on Windows Server 2012 and later

Install python-novaclient on Windows

Install python-openstackclient on Linux and Mac OS

Install the WSUS server role

Install WordPress multi-site

Install WordPress on Linux with Apache

Installing a LAMP stack on Ubuntu 18.04

Installing and configuring vsFTPD

Installing Apache on Fedora 31

Introducing the Rackspace Cloud Control Panel

Introduction to encrypted authenticated tokens

Introduction to firewalls

Introduction to iptables

Investigate a compromised Windows server

Investigate compromised servers

Investigating Cryptocurrency Malware Compromise on a Windows Server

Keep a cloud server up-to-date

Launch a Windows web farm with Web Deploy

Launch on the Rackspace Cloud

Learn more about Cloud Servers

Limit File Upload Size in NGINX

Limit SSH access by IP address

Limits on DNS lookups

Linux .htaccess tips and tricks

Linux Clustering Concepts

Linux device does not show the correct disk space after a resize

Linux file management commands to create, copy, move, and delete files

Linux file permission concepts

Linux log files

Linux Out-of-Memory Killer

Linux Patching details

Linux reboot and shutdown commands

Linux server security best practices

Log in to a Linux server with an SSH private key on a Windows client

Log in to your server via RDP (Windows)

Log in with an SSH private key on Linux and macOS

Log off existing sessions in Linux

Manage a cloud server

Manage disks with DiskPart

Manage Linux user groups

Manage OnMetal Cloud Servers through the API

Manage packages in RHEL-based distributions

Manage security groups and rules

Manage SSH Key Pairs for cloud servers with python-novaclient

Manage the Windows Server 2012 firewall

Managing Duplicate Cron Job When Executing Scripts

Managing password policies

Manually enable automatic updates on Debian and Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 public Cloud Servers

Manually enable automatic updates on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS public cloud servers

Manually enable automatic updates on Windows 2012 and Windows 2008 Public Cloud Servers

Manually grant RDP access to an Active Directory user

Mapping of Amazon Web Services resources to Rackspace resources

Media Server Comparison

Memory monitoring and management

Migración de nube a nube

Migrate a .NET application from Amazon Web Services

Migrate a First Gen server to a Next Gen server with minimal downtime

Migrate a Java web application from Amazon Web Services

Migrate an application based on Backbone.js, Node.js, and MongoDB from Amazon Web Services

Migrate between server flavors

Migrate From Parse To Rackspace

Migrate Remote Desktop Services CALs

Migrate to a General Purpose or I/O server

Migrate to Rackspace from another hosting provider

Migrate to the Rackspace Cloud from Amazon Web Services

Migrating a Linux server from the command line

Migrations in the Rackspace Cloud

Modify the password policy in the Windows Active Directory Group Policy Manager

Mount a partition and chroot into your primary file-system from rescue mode

Multifactor authentication from the MyRackspace Portal

Multifactor-authentication from the Cloud Control Panel

MySQL connection methods

MySQL Event Scheduler

MySQL Java Database connectivity communications exception

MySQL user and database basics

Network configuration for eth0 changed to DHCP after upgrading RHEL/CentOS

New features in General Purpose and work-optimized Cloud Servers

Next steps after creating a LAMP server

Nginx and Apache default paths

Nginx Whitelist certain IP's

Nova-agent (Linux) and Rackspace agent (Windows)

ObjectRocket documentation

OnMetal Cloud Server Overview

Open ports in the Linux firewall to access POP and IMAP mail servers

Other Cloud Server use Scenarios

Overview of FTP and SFTP

Overview of the Managed Windows Patching service

PayPal requires TLS 1.2

Permissions matrix for Cloud Servers

PHP Errors

PHP memory limit

Pitchfork - the Rackspace Cloud API web application

Pitchfork flavor_id quickstart

Pitchfork&colon; Create server

Plesk: Introduction

Plesk: Manage email accounts

Plesk: SSL Installation

Post-migration considerations when migrating from Amazon Web Services

Prepare a Cloud Server to be a mail server

Prepare data disks on Linux Cloud Servers

Prepare data disks on Windows 2012, 2016, and 2019 Cloud Servers

Prepare for high-traffic events

Prepare to migrate a Linux server

Prepare to migrate a Windows server

Prevent issues with Windows server reboots

Prevent spam in Postfix

Private and Public Access to Your Cloud Server

Private Cloud is RAD: How to leverage Private Cloud for Rapid Application Development

Provision cloud resources when migrating from Amazon Web Services

Purchase or renew an SSL certificate

Rackspace Cloud Essentials - Choose the right-size cloud server

Rackspace Cloud Essentials - Configure a user in vsftpd for CentOS

Rackspace Cloud Essentials - Enable your domain to be served from Rackspace Cloud

Rackspace Cloud Essentials - Install vsftpd for CentOS

Rackspace Cloud Essentials Guide - Building Your Cloud Inventory

Rackspace Cloud essentials: Check the SSH host fingerprint of a server with the web console

Rackspace Cloud Servers features that are not available on the Fortigate-VM

Rackspace Name Servers

Rackspace Open Cloud reference architecture

Rackspace Product Release Phases

RDP Connection Failures: Expired Self-Signed Certificate

RDS client disconnected codes and reasons

Reboot a server

Rebuild a cloud server

Recover from a failed server in a GlusterFS array

Regex Cheat Sheet/Basics

Remote Desktop services sessions are not kept alive

Repair a system image with DISM

Rescue mode

Reset a Cloud Server network with Pitchfork

Reset a local user password on Windows Server

Reset a MySQL root password

Reset a server password

Reset an Active Directory user password

Reset the root user password from rescue mode

Resize a Cloud Server

Resize standard and general purpose servers

Resize up compute and memory servers

Resolve errors after building a server from a saved image

Restart Apache

Restrict SSH login to a specific IP or host

Review MSSQL Server Agent logs

Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) permissions matrix for Cloud Hosting

Sample logrotate configuration and troubleshooting

Schedule reboots in the Ubuntu operating system

Scheduled images FAQ

Serve multiple domains by using virtual hosts

Serve Your Domain From a Rackspace Cloud Server

Set or change a user password in Linux

Set the date, time, and timezone on a Linux server

Set up a Mail Relay

Set up an Apache vhost on Ubuntu 20.04 and Debian 10

Set up and use SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

Set up Apache virtual hosts on the Ubuntu operating system

Set up CORS on Cloud Files

Set up cron jobs for action scripting

Set up Lsyncd locally and over SSH to sync directories

Set up MySQL source-replica replication

Set up Python on IIS 7.5

Set up SFTP users in Linux-based systems

Set up two-factor authentication by using Google Authenticator

Set up virtual hosts on CentOS

Setup a Name-Based Virtual Host in Apache

Shut down a Rackspace Cloud Server

Slow Windows logins

Sophos Error due to EOL on Windows Server 2008/2008R2

Speed up rsync when migrating a Linux server from the command line

SQL Server database recovery models

SSH - "REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED"

SSL certificate browser error

Start an Emergency Console session

Support ticket statuses

Supported Operating Systems and Browsers in Rackspace Public Cloud

Swap space on cloud servers

System disk and data disk FAQ

Terms of Service

Testing network services with Netcat

The Hosting Spectrum: Which solution fits your business?

Too many connections error in MySQL

Traditional colocation vs. Rackspace Managed Colocation

Transfer files by using WinSCP

Transfer files to or from a Linux server without FTP

Transfer your DNS hosting to Rackspace

Transport Layer Security (TLS) registry settings

Troubleshoot a downed Linux cloud server

Troubleshoot a downed Windows cloud server

Troubleshoot copy and paste errors with Remote Desktop

Troubleshoot GlusterFS

Troubleshoot high CPU usage on Windows Server

Troubleshoot IIS high resource usage

Troubleshoot MSSQL job failures

Troubleshoot nova-agent or Rackspace Cloud Server Agent

Troubleshoot provided host name not valid error

Troubleshoot remote access to SQL Server

Troubleshoot Remote Desktop services

Troubleshoot SQL Server backup failures by using Windows Event Viewer

Troubleshoot SSH

Troubleshoot Windows Server 2008 boot failure after exiting rescue mode

Troubleshoot Windows Server networking issues

Troubleshoot Windows server shutdowns

Troubleshoot WordPress internal server error

Troubleshoot WordPress refusing an FTP connection

Troubleshoot yum failing check update

Troubleshooting DFS Replication

Troubleshooting low disk space for a Linux cloud server

Troubleshooting low disk space for a Windows cloud server

Truncate and shrink log files in SQL Server

Understanding logrotate utility

Update OpenSSL on Ubuntu

Update ServiceNet routes on cloud servers

Update your AnyConnect version in the Rackspace Portal

Updating Apache to the Latest Version in Linux

Upgrade Apache HTTP Server 2.2 to 2.4 in RHEL and CentOS 7

Upgrade Citrix (XenServer) Tools for Windows cloud servers

Upgrade resources for General Purpose or I/O optimized Cloud Servers

Upload files as ASCII or binary with FTP

Use an API call to stop a cloud server

Use Cloud Servers tags

Use CloudFlare with Rackspace

Use Event Viewer to troubleshoot system freezes

Use fail2ban on Ubuntu

Use Find and Locate to search for files in Linux

Use firewalld on RedHat Based Distributions

Use Holland and Cloud Backup to back up MySQL databases

Use iptables with CentOS 7

Use NTP to Sync Time

Use PowerShell to disable weak encryption

Use sar to monitor resources in Linux

Use scheduler hints to create a server

Use SFTP and SCP

Use Systemctl to manage services

Use task states with server imaging

Use the Linux grep command

Useful python-novaclient commands

Using rsync to Synchronize Files

Using server logs

Using SNI to host multiple SSL certificates in Apache

Using the Apache2Buddy script for performance and stability

Using the python-novaclient with Rackspace Cloud Servers

Using Windows Performance Analyzer to troubleshoot performance issues

Vhosts and server blocks basics

Vhosts basics

View information about available cloud servers

View password change logs in Linux

Viewing system users in Linux

What are inodes in Linux?

What does Rackspace do in the cloud?

What is a 500 Internal Server Error

What is Email Spoofing?

Wildcard SSL overview

Windows bug check analysis

Windows Event Viewer overview

Windows Local Group Policy

Windows low-disk diagnostics

Windows low-memory diagnostics

Windows LSA Spoofing Vulnerability CVE-2022-26925

Windows Server 2016: Scheduled reboot for updates skipped for 7 days

Windows server security best practices

WordPress plugin installation errors

Wordpress security best practices on Linux

Work with ZIP files in Linux

‘Types of SSL certificates’

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