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    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.

    $23

    per month

    SCloud UHost

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ASCloud UHost is a cloud computing service that allow users to spin up a host in 18 regions in the world of various Operating Systems (OS) to offer the following: Cloud Servers - Including virtual machines, dedicated servers, and bare metal servers. Cloud Storage - Including object storage, block storage, and file storage. Cloud Networking - Including virtual private clouds (VPCs), load balancers, and…N/A
    Pricing
    Rackspace Managed HostingSCloud UHost
    Editions & Modules
    Linux
    $23.00
    per month
    Windows
    $75.00
    per month
    Windows + SQL
    $128.00
    per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Rackspace Managed HostingSCloud UHost
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Rackspace Managed HostingSCloud UHost
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of Rackspace Managed Hosting and SCloud UHost
    Feature
    Rackspace Managed Hosting
    -
    Ratings
    SCloud UHost
    8.9
    1 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Monitoring tools00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Operating system support00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    Rackspace Managed HostingSCloud UHost
    Small Businesses
    Flywheel
    Score4.8 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Object Storage
    Score9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    WP Engine
    Score7.4 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    SAP on IBM Cloud
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Rackspace Managed HostingSCloud UHost
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.0
    (15 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    2.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Rackspace Managed HostingSCloud UHost
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    SCloud Pte. Ltd.
    SCloud UHost offers scalable and reliable cloud compute instances with diverse configurations for varied application needs that ensures optimal performance. Its consistent speed and minimal downtime enhance overall reliability, contributing to uninterrupted business operations. SCloud UHost's seamless integration with SCloud services streamlines our cloud ecosystem for operational efficiency. SCloud UHost is less suited for small workloads if you wish to maximise per dollar spent. For smaller workloads, use SCloud ULightHost instead.
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    Pros
    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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    SCloud Pte. Ltd.
    • Good pricing
    • Customer Support
    • Available Regions
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    Cons
    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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    SCloud Pte. Ltd.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    SCloud Pte. Ltd.
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    Usability
    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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    SCloud Pte. Ltd.
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    Support Rating
    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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    SCloud Pte. Ltd.
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    Alternatives Considered
    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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    SCloud Pte. Ltd.
    Both Azure and Oracle offer some sort of lock in, either by the initial discounts or software. What is truly locked in are our data and we really thought carefully from day one as we are a corporate. Even in thinking of going multi-cloud, we are afraid of big vendors like them. We came across SCloud UHost in an event and proceeded to try and never regretted onwards. Good job to the SCloud UHost team and their management for such great products at competitive prices.
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    Return on Investment
    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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    SCloud Pte. Ltd.
    • Time to Market 10-15% faster
    • Spending on compute 15-25% lower
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    ScreenShots

    SCloud UHost Screenshots

    Screenshot of Region Selection - Offers a choice from 18 regions and CPU modelsScreenshot of Configuration Settings - choices of desired memory, Operating Systems and other settings with transparent pricingScreenshot of where GPU can be chosen instead of CPU for compute suitable for AI modelling, high performance compute and such