Scale Servers On-Demand

1 to 50 servers in minutes
Choose a server size and pay for what you use
Accessible via online control panel and open API
Easily Control Your DNS

Fully customizable with root access
Fanatical Support always included
No long-term contracts, pay for what you use
Up to 30 GB servers

All Cloud Servers™ are backed by Fanatical Support^® and the confidence of our industry-leading SLAs.

How It Works

Select a Size for Your Cloud Server
Cloud Server sizes are measured by the amount of physical memory reserved for your instance and range from 256 MB up to 30 GB.
Note: Windows Cloud Servers can not be resized down.

Select Your Operating System
Choose from a variety of popular 64-bit Linux® Distributions—Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, CentOS, Fedora, Arch and Red Hat Enterprise Linux—or Windows® Images—Windows Server 2008. You can also add a SQL Server 2008 R2 database to your Windows image.

Your Server is Online in Just a Few Minutes
Using our online control panel and API, each Cloud Server can be upgraded or removed as your needs change. You can even manage your Cloud Servers on-the-go via your iPhone^®, iPad®^®, iPod^® touch and Android.

"You install your operating system image, configure it and then, from their control panel you can then back it up with 1 click. You can also schedule backups. This was so much easier than EC2."

Cloud Computing—Starting at $10.95/month or 1.5¢/hour

Pricing for Cloud Server starts at $10.95 per month or 1.5¢ per hour 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.

Cloud Load Balancing

Rackspace Cloud Load Balancers allow you to quickly load balance multiple Cloud Servers™ for optimal resource utilization. Learn more about our cloud load balancing solution.

Mix 'n Match to Fit Your Needs

Accommodate traffic spikes, test & development needs, and other variable load applications with a mix of Dedicated Servers and Cloud Servers operating seamlessly together. Learn more about hosting options.

Let Us Manage Your Cloud Servers For You

In addition to features that Cloud Servers offers, you can also enjoy a level of managed service. This way you can manage your business, while we manage your cloud. Cloud Servers with a managed service level is ideal for any business or IT department that needs the on-demand availability, flexibility, and scalability of cloud computing, but doesn't have the in-house resources to manage it directly 24x7x365. Learn More

Need Help with Email Deliverability?

Rackspace & SendGrid have teamed up to offer you 40,000 emails per month free, just for being a Rackspace customer. SendGrid is the easy way to manage your transactional and bulk email needs. Learn More

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

Microsoft® SQL Server - 2008 R2 Available

Select one of our SQL 2008 R2 images to add a SQL 2008 R2 Standard or Web Edition database to your Windows Cloud Server. With pay as you go pricing, you can spin up a SQL Server instance in just minutes. To find out which SQL edition is right for you, click here.

Cybernautic hosted a project for Extreme Makeover: Home Edition using Cloud Servers™ and Cloud Sites.

Razorfish, the marketing powerhouse agency, leverages Cloud Servers™ for client projects and for test and dev environments.

Zapproved utilizes Cloud Servers™ as email servers while their public facing website resides on Cloud Sites.

Power your projects with Cloud Technology

More Customers

"When we set out to look for a cloud computing solution, we didn't hesitate to look at Rackspace Cloud as we've been extremely pleased with the support we receive from dedicated server team. We also have our staging environment running on the Cloud Servers for Windows Beta. The fact that we can easily create new server instances for load testing with a significant cost savings compared to traditional dedicated hosting can't be understated."