Getting Started on American Cloud
Welcome to American Cloud Documentation
Getting Started on American Cloud
Our goal at American Cloud is to be a comprehensive yet simple to use cloud provider. At American Cloud we value our
customer’s freedom to have their own opinions and beliefs. To this end, American Cloud offers a variety of cancel-proof
and user-friendly cloud solutions, all of which can be managed using our custom Web UI. This guide will walk you through
signing up for an American Cloud account, accessing the Web UI, creating your first services, and understanding how
billing works.
1. Sign Up for an Account
2. Navigate the Web portal
3. Create Your First Compute Instance
4. Create Additional Services
5. Understand Billing
6. Explore American Cloud Guides
Sign Up for an Account
First, you need to create an American Cloud account to start using our services. If you already have a American Cloud
account, you can skip to the next section.
1. Navigate to americancloud.com and choose Sign Up Now. You will need to choose between "Organization" or "Personal".
- Organization: Organization: Enter the organization or company name, full name, email address, phone number, and
password.
- Personal: Enter your full name, email address, phone number, and password.
2. A confirmation email will be sent to the email address you provided. Click the link in that email to confirm your
email address.
3. Within the Billing section, fill out the required billing information and choose the initial amount of funds to load
to your American Cloud account wallet. Then choose Proceed to Checkout. The following page will be for entering
payment information. Verify the information is correct and check the box "I agree to pay the above total according
to my card issuer agreement”. Click Pay Now.
4. Most accounts are activated instantly and you can start adding services right away. A small number of accounts may
require manual review prior to activation.
Navigate the Web UI
American Cloud’s web portal is the gateway to our platform. It enables you to manage your account, view your bills, and
manage/add services. Below is a quick breakdown of the Web portal
- Services: Manage and create Cloud Compute and Kubernetes instances.
- Networking: Manage and create DNS, load balancers, and networking instances.
- Storage: Manage and create block storage and snapshots.
- Billing: Manage and view your payment methods and invoices.
- Support: Open and manage support tickets.
- Profile: Manage and update your address, email, phone number, and 2FA.
For a full overview of the web portal and its features, see our in depth user guide.
Create Your First Compute Instance
Compute Instances are virtual machines that can be created in a few easy clicks and used for many different
applications. You will have the ability to customize your virtual machine to best fit your application computing needs.
Use the below guide for further instructions on how to deploy a Compute Instance.
- Deploy a Compute Instance
Create Additional Services
In addition to Compute Instances, American Cloud has a vast selection of other services that will complete your cloud
computing needs. If any of the below would be useful for you, they are only a few clicks away from being created.
Compute
- ACKS (American Cloud Kubernetes Service): Managed Kubernetes clusters that simplify container orchestration.
- Bare Metal (COMING SOON!): Dedicated single-tenant hardware for advanced workloads.
Storage
- Block Storage: Scalable, high-speed, fault-tolerant, and portable (detachable) storage volumes used to add
additional storage to a Compute Instance.
- Object Storage: Scalability, advanced security features, an S3-compatible API, and easy-to-use management tools.
- Snapshots: Fully managed automatic daily, weekly, and biweekly snapshots of your American Cloud Compute Instances.
Networking
- Load Balancers: Fully configured load balancers with health monitoring and automatic failover.
- Network Access Control Lists(ACLs): Customizable ACL lists used to control access to Compute Instances.
- Domain Name Service(DNS): A free and comprehensive domain management service included for all American Cloud
customers.
Understand Billing
American Cloud services can be paid by either preloaded funds in your wallet or via the primary credit card linked to
your American Cloud account. See the below guide for more billing information and pricing.
- Managing Billing in the Web Portal
All services are charged even if the instance is in a powered off state. To ensure you are not charged for unused
instances please delete the instance.
Explore American Cloud Guides
American Cloud offers a growing library of documentation. This collection covers not only the core products and services
offered, but also addresses topics like networking, security, storage, compute instances, and more. For example: quickly
learn how to deploy One-Click apps such as WordPress, Grafana, MySQL, Docker, PostgreSQL.
American Cloud is here to provide you with an all-in-one cloud computing experience.
