Friday, May 11, 2012

Some Rackspace Cloud Feature Requests

I have a client who does CNC machining, and often times the sizes of the design can clog his inbox.

He also wanted to increase the size of an email that could be transmitted, around 20 MB or so (the same as gmail).

They're willing to pay for it! As with all things, though, I'd like to be able to customize it for them without having to go through a third party (ticketing system or live chat).

I have encountered similar sort of situations with drafting/engineering companies before and ended up with a dropbox type solution. You probably already considered that though. Bigger mail file size would be good. 20mb is what gmail allows i think too though.

I know it seems crazy, but I like to prepay bills to be sure they're paid because, frankly, who knows what's going to be going on with my debit card.

I'm sure most of your customers are companies where this is never a problem, and Rackspace has ALWAYS been cool about waiting two days, but being able to carry a small credit balance would be sweet.

Sunday, May 6, 2012

Silverline

Has anyone had any experience using Silverline? https://silverline.librato.com/

I'm thinking about using it but wondered if anyone here has used it or has any thoughts about it.

Also if you know of an alternative that would be interesting to look into as well.

We're trying to identify processes that are causing the server to crash intermittently, this might do that and keep them under control.