cloudfiles

I am trying to save an XML file to a non CDN Container from Sydney: public void Save(XDocument document) { using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream()) { document.Save(ms); ms.Position = 0; RackspaceCloudIdentity identity = new RackspaceCloudIdentity { Username = "username", APIKey = "xxxxxxxxxxx", CloudInstance = CloudInstance.Default }; CloudFilesProvider provider = new CloudFilesProvider(identity); provider.CreateObject("XMLFiles", ms, "xmlFile1.xml", region: "syd"); } } For a 1MB file, it takes about 50 seconds to upload (very long). And, trying to download the file back, returns an empty

I'm in a situation where I need to push image storage for a number of websites out to a service that can scale indefinitely (S3, CloudFiles, etc.). Up until this point we've been able to allow our users to generate custom thumbnail sizes on the fly using Python's Imaging library with some help from sorl-thumbnail in Django. By moving our images to something like S3, the ability to quickly create thumbnails on the fly is lost. We can either: Do it slowly by downloading the source from S3 and creating the thumbnail locally con: it is slow and bandwidth intensive Do it upfront by creating a pre

I am working on a Ruby on Rails app that communicates with RackSpace cloudfiles (similar to Amazon S3 but lacking some features). Due to the lack of the availability of per-object access permissions and query string authentication, downloads to users have to be mediated through an application. In Rails 2.3, it looks like you can dynamically build a response as follows: # Streams about 180 MB of generated data to the browser. render :text => proc { |response, output| 10_000_000.times do |i| output.write("This is line #{i}\n") end } (from http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Base