Tag Archives: cloudfiles

Video encoding with Encoding.com and Rackspace Cloudfiles

Posted on May 31, 2010 by

We have been working with a couple of media centric web-portals which require video encoding, storage and streaming. Initial guidance and research showed us a couple of successful approaches: Heywatch! with Amazon S3 / Amazon CloudFront encoding.com with S3 / … Continue reading →

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Using Rackspace CloudFiles with paperclip

Posted on April 16, 2010 by

Thoughtbot (the makers of paperclip) have not yet integrated Rackspace CloudFiles into paperclip. CloufFiles is the Rackspace CDN storage (similar to S3 but with CDN support). CDN support is very critical when we are streaming large files like videos. Assumption: You … Continue reading →

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