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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Google Cloud DNS

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AGoogle Cloud DNS is a managed DNS service, featuring a global network of anycast servers and touting reliability, availability, and performance.N/A

    Rackspace Managed Hosting

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ARackspace Managed Hosting is cloud computing company Rackspace's managed IT services and IaaS offering. Its infrastructure options include bare metal servers, virtual single-shared servers, and cloud multi-tenant environments.

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    Google Cloud DNSRackspace Managed Hosting
    Editions & Modules
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    Linux
    $23.00
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    Windows
    $75.00
    per month
    Windows + SQL
    $128.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Google Cloud DNSRackspace Managed Hosting
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Google Cloud DNSRackspace Managed Hosting
    Considered Both Products
    Google
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    91%
    Would buy again
    10 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
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    Best Alternatives
    Google Cloud DNSRackspace Managed Hosting
    Small Businesses
    Amazon Route 53
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Flywheel
    Score4.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure DNS
    Score8.9 out of 10
    WP Engine
    Score7.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Amazon Route 53
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Google Cloud DNSRackspace Managed Hosting
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (11 ratings)
    1.0
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.2
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    9.4
    (2 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Google Cloud DNSRackspace Managed Hosting
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Google
    Google cloud is well suited to access and collaborate on documents where more than 2 people are required to contribute and in instances where feedback from individuals is captured on the document itself. If a team is working on an end of year report for funders, a few key members may need to finalise a report by offering suggestions that can be viewed and resolved by other team members. Housing documents on Google Cloud is the most appropriate platform I have ever used for tasks like these. If minimal collaboration needs engagement from just 2 individuals, it may be easier to simply email the information between each other, rather than using time to create a folder, ensure access control and upload the information to Google Cloud for collaborative input
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    Rackspace
    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.
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    Pros
    Google
    • Interface is user friendly
    • It is safe , Secure and reliable
    • It has lower pricing plans
    • They have good customer support
    • They do have good documentation to have fair ideas on their offerings
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    Rackspace
    • 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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    Cons
    Google
    • It is hard for first time user to get used to it.
    • Support is restricted for 3rd party services who uses it
    • Sometimes the support people take more than 24hrs to reply to our queries, But it is not for all issues.
    • Search function could have been made easy to search records
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    Rackspace
    • Latest outage 12/2/22 and counting over 75 hours - in my opinion, support has been miserable. In my experience, there's little/no communication regarding the problem or cause. No support. In my opinion, erroneous advice. Virtually NOTHING for users. I feel we've been abandoned.
    • Outage appears to have been caused by unpatched servers & no backup servers
    • In my opinion, NO COMPANY should trust their data or services to a nonresponsive company like Rackspace.
    • In my experience, there are NO published policies/practices re: server maintenance (patching) to mitigate hacking, NO published policies/practices re: backup servers in the event of problems. I feel it's stupid of me as a user to have chosen to trust them with critical services
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Google
    No answers on this topic
    Rackspace
    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!
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    Usability
    Google
    This is exceptionally simple to utilize in the event that you are as of now utilizing Google Cloud Services or you are important for the Google Ecosystem as of now. I accept this is likely the primary goal of Google Cloud DNS, to give a more complete set-up of devices to Google Cloud clients. Consequently, I would rate convenience a 9.
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    Rackspace
    The company does not put as much focus on usability as other cloud competitors and it is kind of clear. It would be good to take a quarter and gather intense feedback, and then another quarter and focus purely on UI enhancements and backend interoperability
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    Support Rating
    Google
    In the event that you are utilizing Google Cloud Platform as your cloud supplier, Google Cloud DNS is unquestionably the DNS supplier to utilize.
    I haven't required help for it yet, notwithstanding, in my experience, Google Support is incredible.
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    Rackspace
    In my experience, their support team is massively overworked — taking FOUR DAYS to look at tickets, and a MONTH to fix problems!
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    Alternatives Considered
    Google
    Amazon Route 53 offers almost equal or slightly more features than Google Cloud DNS; we selected Google Cloud DNS because the rest of our projects use Google Cloud Platform.
    Also, since AWS is a bigger service provider, their pricing is also higher; since Google Cloud DNS pricing is better, we went for it.
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    Rackspace
    LiquidWeb or Amazon both offer some products that could be considered similar. I will say though, after years of dealing with Rackspace, their service is what always has me coming back. Their support is typically so much better than other vendors that I hesitate to use other vendors. Pricing might be cheaper, but when you have an issue and need it resolved ASAP, then Rackspace has come through in the majority of cases for me.
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    Return on Investment
    Google
    • We use GCP for all our projects so Google Cloud DNS fits perfectly
    • It is proving to scale well so good for us since we are a growing company
    • It is easy to use and doesn't require a separate team to maintain
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    Rackspace
    • We've found it helpful to host our own web sites on their cloud servers, which is a positive.
    • We've also hosted our Nagios instance on a low-end cloud server, which is also a positive.
    • A negative impact is that they've now decided to start charging for their support.
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