About Rackspace Cloud Servers

The Servers & Computing Power You Need, When You Need them

Cloud Servers from The Rackspace Cloud put you in complete control of your hosting infrastructure. Each Cloud Server is a fully-customizable, pay by the hour, virtualized server instance that you launch, maintain, and control with full root access.

How Cloud Servers Works

1. SELECT A SIZE FOR YOUR CLOUD SERVER
   Sizes are measured in the amount of physical memory reserved for your Cloud Server and range from 256 MB up to 15.5 GB.
   
   
2. SELECT YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM
   Choose from a variety of popular Linux Distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, Centos, Fedora, Arch and Red Hat Enterprise Linux).
   
   
3. YOUR SERVER IS ONLINE IN JUST A FEW MINUTES
   Using our online control panel and API, you can upgrade, downgrade or remove a Cloud Server as your needs change.

Cloud Computing – Starting at $10.95/m or 1.5¢/hr

Pricing for Cloud Servers starts at $10.95/m or 1.5¢/hr plus bandwidth. Since you can pay by the hour, it's really easy and affordable to spin up a new Cloud Server when you need the additional cloud computing power for testing or development–and then simply remove it when you're done. Get our full pricing details.

Scale Your Computing Power Up–And Back Down Again

If your site or application has big fluctuations in traffic or computing power needs – seasonal spikes around the holidays, for example – you can easily add more server capacity, and then remove it once the demand subsides.

Finally, Real SLAs For Cloud Computing

The SLA adopted for Cloud Servers is just as aggressive as the one Rackspace provides for traditional hosted servers. It provides remedies for any downtime event caused by the network, data center infrastructure, the physical host server, or the migration of your instance from one physical host to another (should that be required). Be sure to see our SLA in detail.

Cloud Server Support

With Cloud Servers, we manage the network, the hardware, and the virtualization layer. You get full control of your virtual instance – that means you call the shots when it comes to the OS, server applications and code

About Rackspace Cloud Sites

The Perfect Platform For Websites

• Host Unlimited Websites
• Use Linux, Windows, or both
• Auto-scales across multiple servers
• How Cloud Sites Works

1. UPLOAD YOUR SITE TO THE CLOUD
   You can create a new Rackspace Cloud powered site—and even add some email accounts—in less than five minutes. Load–Balancing, clustering, and redundant storage are all inherited by your application automatically, without any effort.
   
   
2. SCALING HAPPENS AUTOMATICALLY
   Right from the second you upload your Websites to Rackspace Cloud Sites, your sites are hosted on advanced clustered cloud–computing technology designed for high–traffic and high–performance. When your site grows bigger than what's included, you pay inexpensive scale pricing for exactly what you use on the cloud and nothing more.

Cloud Computing Built on Industry Standards

Many of the new cloud hosting platforms require that you use custom–code and architecture before your applications are able to tap into the power of cloud computing. Rackspace Cloud Sites is different because it is designed to run your applications with very little (if any) modification. Cloud Sites is a powerful hosting platform that is built on existing web standards and powered by the proven technology that you know, trust, and use regularly. This means that you get the benefits of a scalable cloud platform – for free – spending zero time coding towards custom APIs or data schemas.

The Many Great Benefits of Cloud Sites

• Powerful Clustering: Scale to millions of hits
• Online Control Panel: Easily create & manage sites
• Automatic backup: File–by–file restore capabilities
• 24x7 Live Fanatical Support®: Live Chat, Phone, or Email
• Enterprise Email: POP, IMAP, & Webmail
• SSL Support: For secure commerce