Imagine being able to provision a server in minutes or upgrade a server automatically. To bring servers up and down as needed. This is the idea behind Cloud Servers. Totally customizable, each Cloud Server gives you full root access to your Linux distribution of your choice. Your price depends on how large a server you buy.

Based on Xen Virtualization technology, Cloud Servers brings the power of the cloud to the traditional server hosting based model. Just like a dedicated server, your Cloud Server provides total flexibility for you to run anything you want from a Java website to a Ruby on Rails application.

With our Cloud Servers you can deploy one in a few minutes vs. waiting for a physical server deployment. You can also resize the plan and bring up multiple Cloud Servers quickly and easily for much less money.

Dedicated servers usually involve contracts and setup fees while they take time to alter the RAM, etc.

We bill daily because it allows us to cater to both your usual 24x7 server customer and also to the developer who may only need a server for a couple of days. For those who need the server for a couple of days only, they pay for the time the server is deployed, based on number of hours.

We show the monthly charge just for the clients who keep their servers running for an entire month. This makes it easier for those to translate what the daily cost would come out too in terms of a monthly equivalent.

Currently the server would either be running or you would have to delete it altogether. There is no "suspension" mode where you are not charged while not receiving traffic to the server.

Short answer, no. Cloud Servers can be resized to a different plan through our control panel, all the way up to 15.5 GB of RAM. Most common VPS offerings only offer the equivalent of 128MB up to 512MB RAM at most. With most VPS offerings, you are not guaranteed the resources that you are paying for, which means other customers could be infringing on your allotment.

We not only guarantee you will have the resources you are paying for when you need them, but you can also burst while additional resources are available.

Yes, you will get a private IP for each Cloud Server that offers free bandwidth between them.

You can login to the control panel and "resize" the server. It usually takes a few minutes, depending on the amount of data you have stored. If the resources you need are not available in that server, it will migrate all your data, including operating system and IP address, to another server in our environment.

Cloud Server host machines have dual quad core processors. Each Cloud Server is assigned four virtual cores and the amount of CPU cycles allocated to these cores is weighted based on the size of the Cloud Server. For example a 4G Cloud Server will have twice the weight of a 2G Cloud Server. In addition to these guaranteed minimum CPU cycles all Cloud Servers are capable of CPU bursting which allows them to utilize excess CPU cycles that are available on the host machine.

Cloud files is not block level storage, so it cannot be mounted. Customers do use cloud files to offload static files, such as media files for example. Typically media files do not change and will not need to be written to as a database would. At this time, you would have to upgrade the RAM in order to get more storage and vice versa.

We are working on this, however, right now you would have to pick from our Linux distributions and would not be able to export an image.

Cloud Files is not block level storage, so it cannot be mounted. Customers do use Cloud Files to offload static files, such as media files for example. Typically media files do not change and will not need to be written to as a database would.

Cloud Files is a cost-effective, internet-based, infinite-sized, redundant storage offering from The Rackspace Cloud. Cloud Files allows users to store/retrieve files via a simple Web Service (ReST: Representational State Transfer). Files can range in size from a few bytes up to 5 gigabytes and your storage grows or shrinks based on your usage. Add as much or as little as you want without worrying about over-buying/under-utilizing or running out of space. With Cloud Files, you pay for what you use and how much you use is up to you.

Developers interested in using Cloud Files should be familiar with any of the following: ReSTful web-services, Python, PHP, Java, Ruby, or C#/.NET.

Cloud Files can be an excellent storage solution for a number of reasons and is well suited for a number of applications:

• Backups/archives of your data
• Serving images/videos (streaming data to the user's browser)
• Secondary/tertiary, web-accessible storage for your data
• Developer friendly for application integration
• Well suited when amount of storage is difficult to predict

There are some applications for which Cloud Files is not an ideal solution, these include:

• Native support within your Operating System. It is not possible to "mount" or "map" the Cloud Files storage system as a virtual hard-disk on your computer.
• Disk mirroring or backup solutions that require byte/block level differences. There are no concepts of "append" or "file locking" operations within Cloud Files.
• Data can be organized into storage compartments called "Containers," but they cannot be nested. Since there is only one top-level of Containers, you will not be able to upload a nested directory/folder structure into Cloud Files unless a transformation is performed to flatten the structure.

Pricing for Cloud Files is broken down to storage usage, data transfer, and requests.

Storage:

$0.50/GB

Data Transfer:

Data Transfer In $0.40/GB

Data Transfer Out $0.60/GB

Requests:

• $0.05 per 500 PUT, POST, or LIST requests < 250KB
• FREE PUT, POST or LIST request for files > 250KB
• FREE GET, HEAD or DEL Request

Other CDN costs:

• No request/operation charges
• No bandwidth charge from Cloud Files to CDN

There sure is an SLA.

You can create a new account simply by visiting and selecting the "Cloud Files" product.