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

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• 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