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Overview:
The Rackspace Cloud Hosting can quickly scale to thousands of servers to make resources available as they’re needed. Rackspace Cloud hosting customers never need to worry about buying new hardware to meet increasing traffic demands or huge traffic spikes. With over 40,000 customers and a goal of 100,000 customers by the end of 2010 qualifies them for one of the best cloud servers out there.
The Rackspace Cloud Hosting can quickly scale to thousands of servers to make resources available as they’re needed. Rackspace Cloud hosting customers never need to worry about buying new hardware to meet increasing traffic demands or huge traffic spikes. With over 40,000 customers and a goal of 100,000 customers by the end of 2010 qualifies them for one of the best cloud servers out there.
Rackspace Cloud offers three hosting products: Cloud Servers for on-demand computing power; Cloud Sites for robust web hosting; and Cloud Files for elastic online file storage and CDN.
Features:
On-Demand Servers With Root Access, Scale Up & Down At Any Time, Open Source APIs, Pay by the hour for each instance, No long-term contracts—pay only for what you use, Bandwidth available for 7¢/GB in and 22¢/GB out.
Summary:
Rackspace Cloud Hosting is simple to set up… It’s as easy as 1… 2… 3…
- Step One: Build Your Cloud Server. Pull out your credit card, pick your server size and click ‘build’. It’s that simple.
- Step Two: Run Exactly What You Need. Ruby on Rails. Python and Django. PHP, Java and more – it’s your call. How about an application server? Apache, Mysql, Mongrel – Cloud Servers can run anything you need.
- Step Three: Scale to Meet Demand. Need a bigger server? Hit the upgrade button and resize instantly. Want to add servers based on
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Reliability and Uptime:
Rackspace Has over 40,000 users across the world and have a 95.99% uptime.
Customer Support:
Rackspace prides itself on its Fanatical Support. They are always prompt to answer all tickets, emails, tweets, and texts. Voted top support in the industry by users
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John says:
Been with Rackspace for a year and have loved their service. They have the best support on the planet. Getting our sites were a pain to get set up and didn’t work exactly how we wanted but we were able to get everything up and going. A+ customer service getting those all up and running. They are pretty decent as far as pricing goes and it’s a month-to-month contract so I’m not locked into a long contract like a lot of other hosting companies.
5th May 2010 at 1:23 am
Shaylene says:
In the beginning I loved Rackspace/Mosso Cloud and thought they were the best. But as time grew on my servers started going down all the time. Pain in the butt. Way over priced for how often they go down.
7th May 2010 at 10:16 am
Julio says:
Overloaded, slow machines, database servers going down, and a mediocre to poor control panel. Also, no Django, no Rails, no SSH, and no ability to brand the control panel for reselling hosting– which they’d been promising for over a year on their support forum.
13th May 2010 at 6:25 pm
Andrew says:
STAY AWAY from Rackspace. Uptime is terrible, upgrades take forever and usually get done incorrectly, and not to mention, the customer service people treat you like complete garbage.
If you’re thinking about hosting with them, definitely reconsider and go somewhere else.
4th June 2010 at 12:00 pm
Fernando says:
Easy to use. Create up to 50 servers. Fast to scale. Billing is reliable.
Support people answer questions by chat very fast.
Price is affordable
Yesterday I created 3 servers and they were up and running in minutes.
23rd June 2010 at 11:25 am
Jay says:
Our project required dedicated cloud server, so we thought it would be good to go with Rackspace – but it was a terrible experience for all of of our developers. Their, customer support is active, but the tech guys, never bother to solve the issue. We bought 3 cloud servers and used for 8 months and finally removed all of our projects from here.
I would like to tell the Rackspace people that their tech support is worst and their knowledgebase, on which they boast are not complete. We had a terrible time setting up the mail server and server goes down for no reason.
15th July 2010 at 12:18 am
Amy says:
Everything looks slick and professional on the surface, but in the end just about every site I have launched on CloudSites has caused customers to call me and complain about downtime and infrastructure errors (the infamous” No Suitable Node” error). They are not Fanatical about helping you get real answers back to your customers.
One ticket I had with them took 2 months to finally resolve: an entire month to convince them it wasn’t my fault and attract an intelligent tech by making a lot of noise, and another month for them to implement the patch that finally fixed it.
Almost every encounter with their support I have had has involved receiving duplicate “suggestions” on how to fix my own code with technicians ignoring the history of the problem and the possibility of it being a real cloud infrastructure issue.
If scalability is worth mysterious NSN errors that require you to audit and modify your code to conform to a mysteriously quirky infrastructure, by all means the Cloud is good for you. But don’t expect to get real help consistently unless you call in and repeat yourself and the phrase “this is unacceptable service” about 20 times.
22nd July 2010 at 3:34 pm