Resizing cloud servers in the control panel

admin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:16:30 +0000

At any point you can resize your server in the control panel. This process is very simple. You first select the server you wish to resize from your control panel. On the overview page for that server, there is a “resize server” link:

Once you click the resize server link, you then pick which server you want to resize too. You can either downsize or upsize the server. WIth Rackspace Cloud Servers, your data is persistent as well as the IP. This is one of the key differences currently between Rackspace Cloud Servers vs. Amazon’s EC2 offering. The resizing process can take as little as 5 minutes and sometimes up to 30, but it all depends on how much data you have. The server is not down this entire time. Instead, its only down towards the end of the resizing process to reboot the server and complete this process.

Operational Stats on Cloud Servers Control Panel

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:23:00 +0000

From within the control panel, its simple to view a few stats of your cloud server. You can take a snapshot of the server’s stats at any given time and it will remain in your control panel. This is great for determining load during peak times, marketing events, etc…

As you can see, you have the ability to view record CPU utilization, hard disk read/write, and network read/write.

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Resizing cloud servers in the control panel

Operational Stats on Cloud Servers Control Panel