Extremely simple and extremely flexible pricing for Cloud Servers: you just pay for the server instances, cloud computing power and bandwidth that you use. There are no contracts or upfront costs.
When you use Cloud Servers, you pay for each instance (virtual machine) by the hour. For your convenience, the monthly totals are also listed.
| Server Size (Memory / Disk) | Hourly Cost | Monthly Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 256 MB / 10 GB | 1.5¢ | $10.95 |
| 512 MB / 20 GB | 3¢ | $21.90 |
| 1024 MB / 40 GB | 6¢ | $43.80 |
| 2048 MB / 80 GB | 12¢ | $87.60 |
| 4096 MB / 160 GB | 24¢ | $175.20 |
| 8192 MB / 320 GB | 48¢ | $350.40 |
| 15872 MB / 620 GB | 96¢ | $700.80 |
Contact us for information on larger deployments
Bandwidth for your Cloud Servers is calculated separately.
| Bandwidth Out | 22¢ / GB |
| Bandwidth In | 8¢ / GB |
We offer full image backups on our 256 MB, 512 MB, 1024 MB, and 2048 MB Cloud Servers. Full backups of your Cloud Servers are priced according to the amount of data you are backing up. At any time, there are three backups stored – a daily, a weekly, and a variable backup – and these backups stay attached to the server unless that server is resized above a 2048 MB Cloud Server or until it is deleted. A backup can be used to restore a server or a new server can be cloned from the backup.
For now, backups for 256, 512, 1024, and 2048 Cloud Servers are free of charge.
Soon all servers will support backup. Backups will transfer over to Cloud Files free of charge. Once there, the storage costs only 15¢ per GB (for as much storage as you need), and 1¢ per 500 requests.
Cloud Servers are backed by Rackspace® Fanatical Support®. Included for free, you'll have access to our forums, online resources, and to group chatrooms manned by Rackspace Cloud experts.
Use this handy calculator to run some rough numbers of what it might cost to use Cloud Servers for your project.
Check out our API page here.
Interested in building a solution on top of Rackspace's cloud products? Contact us at cloudpartners@rackspacecloud.com.
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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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Cloud Sites is used to quickly host very scalable and reliable websites.
Unlike traditional web hosting, this is not a massive amount of customers crammed on one server. Instead, it's a massive amount of servers that power each visit to your web site.
You'll want Cloud Sites if you're looking for web hosting without the hassles of managing a server or the poor performance and reliability common with virtual hosting.
Cloud Files is unlimited online storage for media, files, and backups.
If your web application needs a lot of storage for images or user-generated content, Cloud Files can store it all for pennies per gigabyte.
You'll want Cloud Files if you've ever asked yourself, "How are we going to store all that?" The best part is that you only pay for the online storage and bandwidth you are currently using. Cloud Files is big online storage without the big costs.
Cloud Servers allow technical users to get custom servers in minutes with full root access.
With Cloud Servers get what you want when you need it, Cloud servers are both instant and disposable. Make a new Server for staging and four new Servers for production. Delete one; create three more. You only pay for what's provisioned and Cloud Servers start at under 2 cents an hour!
