Archive | July, 2011

RackSpace DNSaaS

Posted on July 20, 2011 by admin in DNS, RackSpace

Looks like RackSpace is doing DNS as a service with an API. Here are the links: Retail Site http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/dns/ API Developers Guide http://docs.rackspace.com/api/ Tutorial http://www.collazo.ws/2011/07/08/using-rackspace-dnsaas-with-curl-part-1 This should make it much easier to do bulk DNS operations in the cloud. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet [...]

Looks like RackSpace is doing DNS as a service with an API. Here are the links:

Retail Site
http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/cloud_hosting_products/dns/

API Developers Guide
http://docs.rackspace.com/api/

Tutorial
http://www.collazo.ws/2011/07/08/using-rackspace-dnsaas-with-curl-part-1

This should make it much easier to do bulk DNS operations in the cloud.

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Plesk Admin Password

Posted on July 19, 2011 by admin in Plesk

On versions prior to Plesk 10, you can find the Plesk admin password in: /etc/psa/.psa.shadow For Plesk 10 and beyond, use this command instead: /usr/local/psa/bin/admin –show-password Even more interesting is the MySQL admin password. For all versions of Plesk, the MySQL admin password is the string contained in /etc/psa/.psa.shadow. In Plesk 10, the password is [...]

On versions prior to Plesk 10, you can find the Plesk admin password in:

/etc/psa/.psa.shadow

For Plesk 10 and beyond, use this command instead:

/usr/local/psa/bin/admin --show-password

Even more interesting is the MySQL admin password. For all versions of Plesk, the MySQL admin password is the string contained in /etc/psa/.psa.shadow. In Plesk 10, the password is the hashed value stored in this file.

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