Cloud Servers are a new, affordable way to get the processing power that you need for your website or application. Try one out for a day with the change in your couch.

About Rackspace Cloud Servers

The servers 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.

Using Cloud Servers

1. Select a size for your Cloud Server

Cloud server sizes are measured in the amount of physical memory reserved for your instance 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 Cloud Server is ready for use in just a few minutes

Using our online control panel (and soon our full APIs), each Cloud Server can be upgraded, downgraded, or removed as your needs change.

Starting at $0.015 Per Hour

Pricing for Cloud Servers starts at $0.015 per hour plus bandwidth. Since you can pay by the hour, it's really easy and affordable to spin up a new Cloud Server for testing or development—and then simply remove it when you're done. Get our full pricing details.

Scale Up—And Back Down Again

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

Real Solid SLAs That Mean Business

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 and take a look at how we fanatically support Cloud Servers.

Support for Cloud Servers

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

1.5¢

per hour

Pricing Details

Cloud Servers APIs on the way

Rackspace is fully committed to providing APIs for all of our cloud products. After all, APIs are what make a cloud, well, a cloud. For an early look at our APIs, send us an email at Cloudserver_API@rackspacecloud.com.

Join The Ecosystem

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

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