10 easy steps to building a Windows Server in the Rackspace Cloud

By Selena Frye November 23, 2010, 1:02 AM PST

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Rackspace Cloud

The Rackspace Cloud is an IaaS cloud service that offers cloud hosted servers. The sign-up was pretty straight forward and creating a cloud server was quite easy — it took about 15 minutes.

First, create an account at rackspacecloud.com and log in to it. Then, select Hosting.

Select Cloud Servers

Click Add Server

Select Windows

Select image

Select the image that you want your server based on.

Name your server

Give your server a name and select the server size, and then press Create Server.

Wait while your server is built

The server will now be built. You will see a rotating progress icon.

Look out for this gotcha

Every time I built a server, I received this error. However, If you refresh the page the error should disappear.

Server built

After you refresh the error page, you should see this page, confirming that your server has been built successfully.

Log in with the admin password

By Selena Frye

Selena Frye is a former Senior Editor for TechRepublic. Her background is in technical writing, editing, and research. I edit the Data Center, Linux and Open Source, Apple in the Enterprise, and IT Security blogs.

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