If I'm going to sell a cloud server based solution, I need to bill customers back if they use a lot of disk space or bandwidth. Otherwise they might use my application for an unintended purpose (i.e. host ****... who knows).

Imagine an API where I could query servers by name and date range to determine the cost incurred by named server through a given date range

It would be great to be able to put a sign-up for on our website which would enable users to sign up for hosting, input their billing info, and purchase and/or transfer their domain name(s).

I'd like to make use of the 'rebuild' command with Cloud Servers. Rebuilds seem faster than doing a delete/create and you get to keep the same IP information. The problem with the existing rebuild command when using the Cloud Servers API is that it doesn't support 'personalities'.

Currently, all objects in a container must be deleted before the Container can be removed. If a container has thousands (or millions) of objects, that means you have to loop through each object deletion. Using the console is not efficient... the API must also have this option.

For the users who only want users to use HTTPS traffic through a loadbalancer (Secure web apps), it would be great if the HTTPS loadbalance had an option to redirect any HTTP traffic directly to HTTPS, without having to pay for a separate (practically redundant) loadbalancer for HTTP redirects.

If the physical host load (and possibly other metrics) were available as an API call, a monitor system could be configured to send an alert when it exceeded a threshold, etc.

Similar to the request for URL token authorization for download, the API should allow us to generate a "tokenized" Container destination that anyone can upload to. That way, an app doesn't have to provide upload to a Cloud Server and THEN push to Cloud Files, transferring the full file twice.

Building on top of CloudServer would be easier if there were a non-email way to get alerts of possible trouble or failures in the infrastructure. Either IDing an endpoint the customer (me) would set up to ping, or providing a status API call would be preferable to dealing with email for these

For testing purposes it would be great if there was one HTTP request for resetting the storage (deleting all containers/objects). That would save us the energy to loop through all containers, then all objects and delete them one by one and then delete the containers. That's a PITA to implement!

I have a team managing my managed services servers, however I can only link one managed services account to the cloud account used for our company. I want to be able to link that cloud account to any and all managed services control panel users, so that the team can continue to administrate them effectively

After updating a Cloud Server admin password via API (http://docs.rackspace.com/servers/api/v1.0/cs-devguide/content/Update_Server_Name_Administrative_Password-d1e2243.html) the new password is sent in plaintext over email. This should NEVER happen.

It would be great to have PHP API for Cloud servers as do other competitors. It is the main barrier that has my company, and I think other people to use Cloud Servers.

It would be great when requesting a list of object in a container you could sort on meta data such as date added rather than always having the data returning in alpha order

When attempting to get a list of domains in the Cloud DNS API, we only get the domains owned by our top-level account, but would like to be able to manage all the domains of our clients as well. It would be totally awesome if the DNS API were expanded to be able to do that. It looks like it would have some of that functionality since it has an "accountId" tag already?

It would be nice and really helpful if I could create server-specific API keys so that that key could only manage one (or more) selected server(s). This would really help with building and testing stuff, I wouldn't like to give full API access to coders to test the code.

I would like to be able to query the API to see when a server was booted up. That way I can easily make sure I don't have any servers running for longer than they should. This data is available for EC2 and it should be available for Rackspace as well.

Could we have an API to upload files straight to the cloud server file system?

it'll be more convenient if there is a way to test and debug our API applications without competing with a real world api calls :
for example authentication to https://sandbox.auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0. or similar and return Server-Management-Url https://sandbox.servers.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0/2222/servers

all other aspects are the same(actions, limits, responses ..etc)

We need to create a 100+ server environments. Doing it via the web is too slow. The API has a 10 per min 50 per day limit. I was told this is done to prevent user errors. Therefore, I suggest that an account owner should be able to modify this limit if it knows it needs to create many servers.