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4. Select firewall settings for the virtual server.
5. Select an instance type to indicate which resources (storage,
processor speed, amount of RAM) will be available to the virtual
server.
After a few minutes, your server is ready to be accessed over the Internet
if using a public cloud provider. Private clouds make the virtual server
accessible over a private network. Either way, this is much quicker and
does not require a capital expenditure, as buying a physical server would.
Figure 3-5 shows the Rackspace.com web page for creating a Windows
Server 2012 virtual server.
FIGURE 3-5 Creating a Windows Server 2012 virtual server
Content Distribution Network Content distribution networks (CDNs) are
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