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

Rackspace Cloud

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.

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

Select Cloud Servers

Select Cloud Servers

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

Click Add Server

Click Add Server

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

Select Windows

Select Windows

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

Select image

Select image

Select the image that you want your server based on.

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

Name your server

Name your server

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

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

Wait while your server is built

Wait while your server is built

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

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

Look out for this gotcha

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.

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

Server built

Server built

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

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

Log in with the admin password

Log in with the admin password

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