How It Works

Overview

Get ready to experience pay-as-you-grow, highly available, elastic, enterprise-grade cloud. ReliaCloud Cloud Servers are complete computing environments that you can provision 24 hours-a-day, with full administrator access. Once you register for an account, you can begin building new cloud servers immediately. Spin one up in a minute! That fast enough for ya?

Building a Cloud Server

It's really simple with ReliaCloud. And you can run your cloud server for an hour, a day, a month, or a year -- the choice is yours.

  1. Select a size for your cloud server model. Sizes range from small server models that include a minimal amount of CPU, memory, and storage, all the way up to really big server models that have tons of resources. Each server model is priced at a different rate depending on the size.
  2. Choose an operating system template for your cloud server. We support a variety of commercial and open-source operating systems -- including Windows, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, FreeBSD, and OpenSolaris. You'll pay a different rate based on the operating system template you choose. But note: all of the open-source templates are free!
  3. Your new cloud server is online in less than 60 seconds! You can easily manage your new cloud server using the ReliaCloud Portal. This portal allows you to upgrade, pause, and remove your cloud servers as your needs change. You can also set up load balancing, manage your cloud network security rules, and request live support from our staff.

Five Star Support™

Our team of award-winning, certified technologists provides live support for your cloud servers -- 24x7x365. If you have a question at 2:00 in the morning about your cloud infrastructure, we’ll be there to support you. We manage the data center infrastructure, cloud portal, physical hosts, and virtualization layer. You have total control and management of the cloud server OS, your applications, and your data.

Enterprise-Class Service Level Agreement (SLA)

ReliaCloud is different from most cloud providers! We’ve built a cloud platform with enterprise-grade reliability and security. All our cloud servers are persistent and highly available. That means if one part of our cloud platform fails, your cloud servers will restart somewhere else in our cloud. Your cloud servers are hosted behind Cisco hardware firewall systems. It’s that level of reliability and security that allows us to guarantee customers a superior SLA of 100%. Okay, now breathe out slowly. Can you say "peace of mind"?