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Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon Lightsail
1. It's highly recommended for users who are looking to build their own VPN service2. Amazon Lightsail provides plenty of outgoing data for any use case (e.g., a $3.50 plan provides 500GB of outgoing data)3. Can be used to deploy containerized applications that require scaling4. Plans ranging from $3.50 to $160 a month, which is awesome
FrontEnd Development Engineer
Genius Systems Pvt. LtdInternet, 201-500 employees
Rackspace Managed Hosting
Rackspace is very well suited as a IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) provider, particularly when you're planning on leaving the infrastructure up for a period of time. They seem to focus a bit more on that aspect of infrastructure. That is to say, they seem to promote running servers for longer periods of time and not spinning up/shutting down servers frequently based on usage spikes.While, they do support that sort of availability -- they don't have features built into their offering, necessarily, that make it a lot easier to implement.Our experiences with Rackspace have been 100% around their cloud platform, but they have another entire part of their business that is centered around hosting/maintaining/supporting physical hardware (bare metal). They have had a great reputation over the last several years (10+) for being top-notch providers in this space, which is one reason we even considered them for our Cloud-based hosting needs. We don't have any direct experience with their "bare metal" offerings, but their reputation is certainly great, and worth noting.
Chief Technology Officer
LoudDoor, LLCMarketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees
Feature Rating Comparison
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Amazon Lightsail
8.8
Rackspace Managed Hosting
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Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
Amazon Lightsail
10.0
Rackspace Managed Hosting
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Dynamic scaling
Amazon Lightsail
9.0
Rackspace Managed Hosting
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Elastic load balancing
Amazon Lightsail
7.0
Rackspace Managed Hosting
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Pre-configured templates
Amazon Lightsail
10.0
Rackspace Managed Hosting
—
Monitoring tools
Amazon Lightsail
4.0
Rackspace Managed Hosting
—
Pre-defined machine images
Amazon Lightsail
10.0
Rackspace Managed Hosting
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Operating system support
Amazon Lightsail
10.0
Rackspace Managed Hosting
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Security controls
Amazon Lightsail
10.0
Rackspace Managed Hosting
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Pros
Amazon Lightsail
- Value instances packages
- Better organized UI
- Easy billing resulting in higher efficiency
- Cheaper than competition
- Better support staff
- Can adjust for any bills you may have incurred by accident
FrontEnd Development Engineer
Genius Systems Pvt. LtdInternet, 201-500 employees
Rackspace Managed Hosting
- Fanatical Support - I can't stress how great their team is. Not only are they knowledgeable, whenever I call in (during the day or in the middle of the night), I never have to wait more than a minute to speak to someone.
- Webmail, Hosted Exchange, and Office365 Support - As an IT team of one, Rackspace's cloud solution and migration team has really helped me over the years to minimize issues for users, but also provide a reliable and flexible email platform.
IT Manager
Modus OperandiMarketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees
Cons
Amazon Lightsail
- Very little documentation
- Fewer support options in Amazon Lightsail
- They only allow one adjustment and force you to terminate the instance that caused the issue before adjusting
- Be aware of your usage in AWS
- Always check for any extra unwanted bills
FrontEnd Development Engineer
Genius Systems Pvt. LtdInternet, 201-500 employees
Rackspace Managed Hosting
- Their backup tools are confusing and could use some clarification. We ended up getting charged for backup licenses on nonexistent servers, and that was frustrating because they would not refund us the fees as they declared it our fault for misunderstanding their terms.
- They need to stop charging for "fanatical" support. Their support service has gotten worse over the years and now they are charging us a monthly fee. It's enough of a rub that we'll most likely move our servers to a different company.
Co-founder, lead developer
IntervalsInternet, 1-10 employees
Likelihood to Renew
Amazon Lightsail
No score
No answers yet
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Rackspace Managed Hosting
Rackspace Managed Hosting 2.2
Based on 2 answers
If I wake tomorrow completely incapable of managing a client cloud operation, our dedicated Rackspace Cloud Engineering Team is deployable as literal extension of our business, immediately addressing all needs and requirements without cause of business disruption for our consultancy, and more importantly for the mission-critical ones of our clients. For this reason alone, Rackspace is our choice of choices!
§ Chief Executive Consultant
╬ ConsultEDInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Alternatives Considered
Amazon Lightsail
Amazon Lightsail is a great platform. Before we started using it, we were using AWS EC2 instances as our primary servers after being dissatisfied with other providers. After Amazon Lightsail's introduction, we were able to reduce our operating costs, improve our quality assurance tasks, and provide much more efficient and better apps with our microservices architecture.
FrontEnd Development Engineer
Genius Systems Pvt. LtdInternet, 201-500 employees
Rackspace Managed Hosting
AWS is more and reliable and will work better for our organization from now on. Rackspace has served its purpose but is a slowly dying service. I will still happily give them kudos where it is deserved and they did great in their prime. Amazon is slowly taking over and edging everyone out and you need to jump ship at some point if you want to keep up.

Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 201-500 employeesReturn on Investment
Amazon Lightsail
- Highly efficient for our microservices architecture
- Price to performance
- Scalability
- Adjustments for unwanted bills or charges
- Wide selection of services entice you to use Amazon Lightsail
- Able to deploy web apps to a full infrastructure.
FrontEnd Development Engineer
Genius Systems Pvt. LtdInternet, 201-500 employees
Rackspace Managed Hosting
- Responded to slowdowns very quickly, therefore negating lose of earnings at peak times
- When speaking to the right people eventually, they suggested solutions that have improved server response, which should have a positive impact on site speed (and so CR)
- Load balancing allows for an efficient workflow in implementing new features while not losing traffic
- Originally set some configurations low, which negatively impacted server performance. This was rectified with memory expansion following some discussions.
Web Manager
Joe BrownsRetail, 51-200 employees
Pricing Details
Amazon Lightsail
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Amazon Lightsail Editions & Modules
Edition
512 MB Linux | $3.501 |
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1 GB Linux | $5.001 |
2 GB Linux | $10.001 |
- Per Month
Additional Pricing Details
—Rackspace Managed Hosting
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Rackspace Managed Hosting Editions & Modules
Edition
Linux | $23.001 |
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Windows | $75.001 |
Windows + SQL | $128.001 |
- Per Month