Cloudflare vs Rackspace Managed Hosting

• When you need a FREE and EASY TO SETUP SSL certificate on your page (if you don't have the locked locker icon when opening your page, you need it)
• When you want to obfuscate your webpage's IP (any connection will give the Cloudflare's IP)
• You need to speed up the connection for static content (it will not help database connections or dynamic content)
• IF your DNS isn't good (Cloudflare's DNS is amazing, quick, easy, and works pretty well)

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• 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.

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• There is a huge jump in price between the mid-tier and enterprise solutions which is hard to justify for smaller businesses, or companies owning many small businesses.
• It is difficult to convert from a CNAME installation back to a DNS based one
• Setting up page-level caching with web workers is counterintuitive for simple websites

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• 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.

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• Uptime: With Cloudflare's website protection, we have avoided panic-inducing outages and downtime.
• Reduced hosting load: Cloudflare's CDN allows us to use smaller servers and greatly diminish bandwidth usage.
• Reduced domain renewal cost: Most of our domains could be transferred to Cloudflare, where domain renewals are as cheap as possible.
• Increased total website cost: All of Cloudflare's features aren't free, and they increase our monthly overall website cost. The protection and other features are helpful, just not free.

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• 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.

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