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