NOTE: This article is written for our Classic Cloud Control Panel. You can access this interface from the New Cloud Control Panel by clicking your username in the upper-right of the control panel and selecting "Classic Cloud Control Panel".

Hello and welcome to the Rackspace Cloud!

Now that your account has been activated, the first thing that you'll want to do is to log in to the Clasic Cloud Control Panel to access your account.

• Just open a browser to:  http://manage.rackspacecloud.com

• Log in with the username & password that you selected when you created the account.  Those credentials are only for accessing the Classic Cloud Control Panel.  When you create a Cloud Server, the credentials for each individual server will be emailed to the Primary Contact on your account.

The Classic Cloud Control Panel has 3 main sections

1. The Left Navigation menu (green box)
2. Details Section (blue box)
3. Cloud News (purple box)

Left Navigation Menu

Your "Go To" menu, where you access all your assets, support, and manage account information.

Details Section

This dynamic section displays the specific data associated with your selections from the left navigation menu. 

Cloud News

This dynamic section viewable from the Home Screen will show the latest news including new features releases, pricing updates, industry news, and strategic initiatives. This is NOT the place to see maintenance announcements.  Any news of service impacting events will still be reported from the Cloud Status page.

Left Navigation Menu

• Home - Takes you to the Welcome page with Account Activity Summary displayed. 

Click on the tab labeled 'Getting Started' from the Welcome screen.  This will show you a brief overview of some key concepts for our products, and is a handy 'quick-reference' guide.

• Hosting - Create and manage your devices and services like Cloud Files, Cloud Servers, and Cloud Load Balancers.  You will only see the Cloud Sites option if you are subscribed to our Cloud Sites product (optional).  The same is true of the 'Clients' tab below Load balancers.  This tab is for setting up clients, client plans, and messages for Cloud Sites resellers

• Your Account - Manage your billing, account information, and API key.

• Support - Access all of our support resources - Developer Guides, Cloud Status, Knowledge Center, Problem Ticketing System, and Live Chat.  All these resources are also available from links at the top of the page.

• Logout - Logout of the control panel.

That just about covers the basic navigation of the Classic Cloud Control Panel.  In the next article, Generating Your API Key, you will learn where to go and activate an important feature for using the scripting interface with our products.