Cloud Servers | Cloud Computing

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Cloud Servers are a new, affordable way to get the cloud's computing power for your websites or applications. Test drive Cloud Servers for a day with the change lying down the back of your couch. 30 days risk free.

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.
Server Sizes Screenshot

2. SELECT YOUR OPERATING SYSTEM

Choose from a variety of popular Linux Distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, Centos, Fedora, Arch and Red Hat Enterprise Linux).
Server Operating Systems

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

Starting At

$10.95/m
or 1.5¢/hr

per hour

Pricing Details

Pay as you Go!

Cloud Servers API is here!

Check out our API page here.

Join The Ecosystem

Interested in building a solution on top of Rackspace's cloud products? Contact us at cloudpartners@rackspacecloud.com.

What people are saying

  • @elpinturrichio: I tried Rackspace Cloud recently and liked it - flexible, easy, nice customer service

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  • @chewbocka Go for the Rackspace Cloud .... best hosting. ever.

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  • YellowLlama i'm gonna be moving all my sites to RackSpace Cloud Sites... had a chat with them now.. quite impressed. good pricing. cheers

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