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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

    UENI

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ASmall business owners don’t have much time to build their online presence, don’t have much money to spend on digital advertising, and don’t want to navigate the complexity of what it means to be online today. So UENI presents a solution built specifically for them. Unlike DIY website builders or digital agencies, UENI delivers a fully built website and listings on what they present as trusted, high traffic platforms. The service includes a fully built website customized to the…

    $16.99

    per month

    Pricing
    Rackspace Managed HostingUENI
    Editions & Modules
    Linux
    $23.00
    per month
    Windows
    $75.00
    per month
    Windows + SQL
    $128.00
    per month
    UENI Launch Plan
    $16.99
    per month
    UENI Plus Plan
    $59
    per month
    UENI Growth Plan
    $99
    per month
    UENI Platinum Plan
    $199
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Rackspace Managed HostingUENI
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$79 one-time fee
    Additional Details—A discount is offered for annual and biennial billing.
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    Community Pulse
    Rackspace Managed HostingUENI
    Considered Both Products
    Rackspace
    No answer on this topic
    UENI
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    86%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    86%
    Happy with the feature set
    6 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    7 Answers
    Features
    Rackspace Managed HostingUENI
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Rackspace Managed Hosting and UENI
    Feature
    Rackspace Managed Hosting
    -
    Ratings
    UENI
    8.0
    7 Ratings
    2% above category average
    WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings8.56 Ratings
    Library of website themes00 Ratings7.46 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings8.27 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Rackspace Managed Hosting and UENI
    Feature
    Rackspace Managed Hosting
    -
    Ratings
    UENI
    7.2
    5 Ratings
    4% below category average
    Content taxonomy00 Ratings7.25 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Rackspace Managed Hosting and UENI
    Feature
    Rackspace Managed Hosting
    -
    Ratings
    UENI
    8.1
    4 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings8.14 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Rackspace Managed HostingUENI
    Small Businesses
    Flywheel
    Score4.8 out of 10
    Umbraco CMS
    Score7 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    WP Engine
    Score7.4 out of 10
    Square Online
    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    RWS Tridion Sites
    Score9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Rackspace Managed HostingUENI
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.0
    (15 ratings)
    8.7
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    2.2
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Rackspace Managed HostingUENI
    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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    UENI
    This company suited me at the time due to running out of time to get a site up. UENI was able to add a good-looking site quickly. No extra hosting charges. Shame they miss out on standard features like many other sites offer. It has given me an online presence, which I was after. This looks good and is easy to edit.
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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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    UENI
    • Money-back Guarantee if you're not completely satisfied
    • Deliver a website in 3 days
    • Easy to convey your needs via their form
    Incentivized
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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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    UENI
    • Some aspects of the website could do with improving, however, we have fed this back to them and have passed it on to their development team, to look at implementing them in the next update they do.
    Incentivized
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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!
    Incentivized
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    UENI
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Incentivized
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    UENI
    No answers on this topic
    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!
    Incentivized
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    UENI
    No answers on this topic
    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.
    Incentivized
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    UENI
    UENI overshadows Wix by far. Considering how helpful, cost effective, and fast UENI is to make the websites as per my requirements, in comparison to Wix where you have to first purchase a subscription then either learn to make it yourself, which wouldn't be as user friendly, or pay someone extra to have it made rather than the one-time payment to UENI.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    UENI
    • Will promote professionalism of my brand
    • Otherwise not enough time to assess
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    ScreenShots

    UENI Screenshots

    Screenshot of the home screen of the UENI Editor alongside the inter-editor HelpDeskScreenshot of a section of the jewellery products available on this UENI websiteScreenshot of the website header for a shipping company built with UENIScreenshot of editing one of the content blocks using the UENI EditorScreenshot of the mobile-friendly shopping cart & checkout functions, shown here on desktop