Explore Cloud Servers powered by OpenStack and our next generation API
Standard Instance Virtual Configurations
| RAM | 512MB | 1GB | 2GB | 4GB | 8GB | 15GB | 30GB |
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| Disk (GB) | 20 | 40 | 80 | 160 | 320 | 620 | 1200 |
| vCPUs | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 |
| Public Bandwidth (Mbps) | 20 | 30 | 60 | 100 | 150 | 200 | 300 |
| Internal Bandwidth (Mbps) | 40 | 60 | 120 | 200 | 300 | 400 | 600 |
Standard Instance Operating System Images
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Linux/GNU Variants
Ubuntu
CentOS
Red Hat
Arch
Debian
Fedora
FreeBSD
Gentoo
openSUSE
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Windows Server 2008
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Windows Server 2012
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Network Appliances
Core Capabilities
- Regional Choice
- For geographies with more than one region, regional choice allows you to choose which region you interact with.
- Custom images
- Create custom images and rebuild servers from any image you specify.
- Persistent and elastic
- Cloud Servers is built for applications that expect persistence and applications that dynamically work around failure.
- File injection
- Inject data into the file system of the Cloud Server instance.
- Raid 10 storage
- Provides superior performance and redundancy.
- Public and private interfaces
- Intra-region private bandwidth is free and provides inter-Cloud Server communication as well as access to Cloud Files at no charge.
- Isolated networking
- Enhance the network security of your architecture by creating isolated networks. We place no restrictions on your isolated network. So, you’re free to broadcast or multicast; enabling capabilities like server clustering.
Cloud Networks is available only when you provision new Cloud Servers powered by OpenStack.
Compatibility
- Linux and Windows servers available
- Run the operating system and database that you’re most comfortable with.
- Built to work with all our cloud products
- Additional products like Cloud Databases, Cloud Load Balancers, Cloud Files, and Cloud DNS are integrated in the new control panel and augment your Cloud Server deployment. Learn more about our complete cloud portfolio
- Built to work with our dedicated servers
- RackConnect is a unique solution designed for customers who require the flexibility and elasticity of the cloud, as well as the enhanced security and performance of traditional dedicated hosting. Learn more about RackConnect
- Mobile app
- iOS and Android applications allow you to spin servers up and down wherever you are connected. Learn more about our mobile app
Backup
- Image-level backups
- You can create an image of your cloud server and you can use this image to restore a server or clone a new one.
- File-level backups
- Rackspace Cloud Backup is a file-level backup tool for Cloud Servers and Managed Cloud Servers.
Additional Features for Windows
- Windows images pre-installed with the latest patches
- Rackspace is in sync with Microsoft's patch release schedule and pre-installs the latest patches on Windows on a frequent basis. For servers without a managed cloud account, you can also choose to spin up a Windows server that has not been patched.
- Microsoft SQL Server Standard & Web available
- Choose from Microsoft SQL Server 2012 - Standard and Web Editions.
Security and Networking
- Brocade Vyatta vRouter
- Support for the following four scenarios:
- FIREWALL: Secure your cloud infrastructure with IPv4/IPv6 stateful packet inspection to intercept and inspect network activity. Protect your critical data with advanced firewall capabilities such as zone- and time-based firewalling.
- NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION (NAT): Enhance the security of your network by provisioning application and database servers without public network interfaces, while still allowing these servers to access the Internet for OS updates and patches.
- ROUTER: Allows connectivity between separate isolated Cloud Networks.
- VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK (VPN): Enables you to extend your data center infrastructure into the cloud. Allows secure remote access for clients.
Support
- Fanatical Support
- Call, chat or submit a ticket 24x7x365. Learn more about Fanatical Support
- Managed cloud account available
- We’ll provide monitoring, operating system and application infrastructure layer support, and technical guidance. Learn what else you get with a managed cloud account
- Robust SLA
- Our industry leading Service Level Agreement provides a 100% network uptime guarantee, as well as aggressive commitments for data center infrastructure, host server downtime and migrations with industry leading remediation. Read the SLA
- The Open Cloud Community
- Learn about Rackspace products, ask questions and share your knowledge in our Open Cloud Community.
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OpenStack API v2 Features
- RESTful API
- Programmatically perform operations like builds, deletes, and lists through a RESTful API.
See a complete list of API operations - Custom metadata
- Add or modify custom data about your server that can be queried later.
- IPv6 support
- Use both IPv4 and/or IPv6 address.
- Highly scalable
- Spin up hundreds of servers in minutes. 200 1GB Linux servers now takes only ~20 minutes.
- Highly responsive
- Server details and other actions respond much faster with the new API.
- Asynchronous fault support
- Error codes now occur asynchronously
- Support for links
- Now include self links or bookmark links so you can store URIs.