This introduction covers everything you need to know as a new Rackspace customer, including how to manage your account, create servers, set up security, and schedule server imaging.

Manage server images

• Create a cloud server

• Save a cloud server image

• Restore a server from an image

• Image limitations

Remote access

• Remote connection from Windows to a Linux server

• Remote connection from MacOS to a Linux server

• Remote connection to a Windows Cloud Server using RDP

Cloud Server security

• Basic Linux cloud server security

• Windows firewall rules

Upload your content

• CentOS - installing vsftpd

• CentOS - configuring a user in vsftpd

DNS & domain management

• Transferring your domain to the Rackspace Cloud

• Managing DNS

Manage your account

• Billing services overview

• Navigating the Cloud Control Panel

• Generating your API key

Manage your server

• Start a console session

• Manage a cloud server

• Reboot your server

• Stop your server

• Rescue mode

• Rebuild a cloud server

• Resize standard servers

• Resize up compute and memory servers

• Troubleshooting low disk space for a Linux cloud server

• Using server logs

• Reset your server password

• Deleting your server