Get started with Cloud Servers

Welcome to Rackspace Cloud Servers! This guide provides
everything that you need to get started, including logging into our
Control Panel, creating servers, transferring
domains to be hosted from your Cloud Server, and logging in to your
server.

The following concepts will help you to get started quickly:

• Cloud Servers are not traditionally hosted servers. Customers
  are given administrative access to virtual private servers that can be
  easily built and just as easily taken down.
• Cloud Servers can resize capacity as your need changes. Billing is
  charged by the number of hours of use at a given rate for the size of
  server being used. For more information, see
  current pricing.
• Customers have root access to Linux servers and administrator
  access to Windows servers.
• The virtual servers are accessible through a remote connection
  client like Remote Desktop (Windows) or an ssh client (Linux). Both
  Windows and Linux servers are accessible through a web console
  from our Control Panel as well.
• Customers can manage Cloud Servers through the Control Panel, or an
  Application Programming Interface(API).
• The hardware that hosts your Cloud Server can be located in any of our
  data centers.

Introduction

• Cloud Servers
• Cloud Servers FAQ
• Cloud SLA

Cloud Servers usage scenarios

• Basic Cloud Server use scenarios
• Other Cloud Server use scenarios

Basic Cloud Server operations

• Create a Cloud Server
• Create an image of a server and restore a server from a saved image
• Create DNS records
• Managing your server
• Reboot your server

Advanced Cloud Server operations

• Cloud Servers Developer Guide
• Cloud Servers API Reference

Managed Services Cloud Server operations

• Cloud Server configuration options
• Linux spheres of support for Dedicated and Managed operations
• Cloud Servers with Managed operations support for Windows