When working with Rackspace Cloud Servers you’re given a vanilla box with nothing on it. This is known to anyone with experience using Rackspace’s Cloud Servers.Which means, when you create a cloud server that hasn’t been spun from your default cloud image, you need to setup a few things. You need to install Apache, MySQL, PHP, etc. All of this depending on how you’re going to use your cloud server. In this article, I’ll be talking to Linux servers instead of Windows (for Windows, contact me).

One thing that many people forget to do is open up the firewall and then finally, save the firewall settings.

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