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Rackspace Public Cloud offers an expansive set of tools and technologies to help your business achieve and maintain growth. Backed by thousands of engineers and industry experts, the Rackspace Public Cloud allows you full control of your environment by eliminating vendor lock in and granting access to cutting edge features.Easy to Start
Spin up a server in under a minute, using our control panel or the OpenStack Compute API — so you can focus on writing code and deploying your apps.
Easy to Grow
Get everything you need to grow, on a hybrid OpenStack cloud that scales with your business — including 24x7x365 human expertise
Easy to Manage
A single control panel provides visibility, control and easy access to powerful management tools.
Infrastructure &
Service Options Matched to Your Needs
Rackspace offers two choices of managed support plans that include ongoing, one-on-one engagement with a Technical Onboarding Manager for your first 60 days. The Technical Onboarding Manager helps to make the transition to Rackspace simple by offering recommendations for strategic and effective use of Rackspace products and technologies.
Managed Infrastructure
When you already possess the skill set and knowledge to perform day-to-day system administrator tasks, but want on-demand guidance and best practice recommendations. Our team can help you improve the availability, scalability and security of your OpenStack cloud.
Managed Operations
All the features of Managed Infrastructure plus we’ll do the heavy lifting for you. Our cloud engineers perform frequent system administrator tasks to improve reliability and performance. Plus, they’ll perform routine maintenance and troubleshooting of your OpenStack cloud.
Free with your Account
Your OpenStack Public Cloud account includes the tools you need for free, in a single control panel:
Auto Scale
Automatically grow or shrink your environment to handle changes in your site’s traffic.
Orchestration
Powered by OpenStack Heat, build your own custom templates or quickly deploy one of our production-ready templates from our Application Catalog.
Monitoring and alerting
Know how your systems are performing at all times with customizable enterprise-grade monitoring.
Availability reporting
Get actionable insights into infrastructure health from Rackspace Intelligence, to improve system performance and availability.
Consistent API
Code directly against Rest APIs or use one of our language-specific SDKs.
Estimate your monthly costs
Quickly estimate the cost of your cloud environment. We help you get set up, and we're there whenever you need us - 24x7x365.
"Corporation Wiki would not be where it is today were it not for the ability to help scale, support, and maintain a high performance infrastructure from Rackspace."Mike Prince, Founder
We're a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant
for Cloud-Enabled Managed Hosting
- Hosting provider for over 69% of the Fortune 100
- #1 hosting provider for the Internet Retailer Top 1,000
- CIO Review's Most Promising DevOps Solution Provider; 30+ DevOps certifications in Chef, Windows PowerShell and Salt
- Microsoft Hosting Partner of the Year and Gold Certified; 200+ Microsoft certifications, including MCITPs, MCSAs, MCSEs, and MCTSs
- Red Hat® Premier Hosting Partner; 160+ RedHat certifications, including RHCEs, RHCSAs, and RHCAs
- Oracle Gold Partner, MySQL Certified Hosting Partner
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