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Rackspace Managed Hosting

Overview

What is Rackspace Managed Hosting?

Rackspace 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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Pricing

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Linux

$23.00

Cloud
per month

Windows

$75.00

Cloud
per month

Windows + SQL

$128.00

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is Rackspace Managed Hosting?

Rackspace Managed Hosting is cloud computing company Rackspace's infrastructure-as-a-service offering. Its infrastructure options include bare metal servers, virtual single-shared servers, and cloud multi-tenant environments. Their options support general computing, databases, networking, storage, connectivity uses, and virtualized servers.

Bare Metal
A single dedicated server with a specific function, like a web server or database server. Storage, networking, and database options can be customized.

Virtualization
A single shared server that allows multiple users of the OS to each control their own network resources with the shared environment.

Private Cloud
Compute resources are shared within an organization, to offer a multi-tenant environment for (internal or external) customers.

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Rackspace Managed Hosting Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Rackspace 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.

Amazon Web Services are common alternatives for Rackspace Managed Hosting.

The most common users of Rackspace Managed Hosting are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Rackspace, solid vendor with great uptime and amazing support

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 07, 2019
Vetted Review
Verified User
Rackspace Managed Hosting
6 years of experience
Rackpace Cloud is being used in two ways in our company, for file hosting and for their Managed Cloud Hosting platform. We use it across the entire company, and rely heavily on the cloud-based cloud system for many important aspects of the company. The Managed Cloud Hosting Platform is vital to our presence online, and we rely on Rackspace to provide industry-leading uptime, and have been rarely disappointed.
  • A great guarantee of uptime.
  • Amazing support, who are available in moments via Chat.
  • Has easy upgrades and downgrades between plans.
  • Fair pricing (you get what you pay for).
Cons
  • During a couple of planned upgrades, the timeline was a bit ambiguous.
  • There have been a few times when tech support seemed unhelpful.
  • We've hit storage/CPU limit without much notice on a unique project.
If you're looking for a hosting platform that offers real support people and will make sure your site is up and running, then Rackspace Cloud is for you. It's not the cheapest option, but when you need a "real" hosting platform I would recommend Rackspace. This also goes for their Cloud-based files and option. It's such a good platform.

Alternative Hosting Platform with Fanatical Support

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 01, 2017
JL
Vetted Review
Verified User
Rackspace Managed Hosting
8 years of experience
We currently use multiple products of Rackspace throughout the entire organization. We first used their cloud site solution and then we added their cloud server solution. When a new email solution had to be addressed, Rackspace's Webmail and Hosted Exchange worked great. We have since moved to Office 365, but working with Rackspace's fanatical support team made everything easy and stress free.
  • 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.
Cons
  • Lack of an autoscale solution - I had a project where I ended up spinning up 30 webheads and 20 MySQL servers (1 master and 19 slaves). The actual campaign lasted 4 hours, but during that live period, I had to have all those machines up and running. Definitely not a cheap environment, but if there was an autoscale solution, the high cost could have been avoided.
Their fanatical support is the main reason I will recommend Rackspace. I am never on hold for a long time when I call in, I can call at any time of the day (even in the middle of the night), the team is very knowledgeable and will go out of the way to find a solution, and most importantly, they are always friendly.

Rackspace Fanatical Support is THE BEST!

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 09, 2015
AB
Vetted Review
Rackspace Managed Hosting
4 years of experience
We use Rackspace cloud servers to host our company website as well as hosting of other specialized websites for clients. We are a Rackspace partner and reseller. We resell Rackspace email services to clients who need hosted email. We have also built websites for customers who want to host their own websites, in which scenario we always recommend Rackspace as a cloud provider.
  • Customer Service
  • Technical Support
  • Documentation
  • Open Source Software
  • Interoperability
Cons
  • Few new products as of recently
When customer service and immediate technical support is important, Rackspace is the ideal service provider for all cloud services.

Business email crippled while we waited a MONTH for support

Rating: 1 out of 10
September 27, 2023
Vetted Review
Verified User
Rackspace Managed Hosting
1 year of experience
We moved my company’s six email accounts to Rackspace Managed Hosting two months ago.
Cons
  • Support took FOUR WEEKS to fix a bad problem
  • Many sent emails were never received, but not bounced
  • In my experience, clueless chat and phone support
I’m writing to make sure nobody has to endure the terrible customer service that I recently got from Rackspace Managed Hosting. I moved my company’s six email accounts there two months ago. A short time later, a malformed auto-reply email started self-replicating (which a properly-configured mail server should not allow). I quickly contacted live chat (since it took Rackspace Managed Hosting support FOUR DAYS to answer my first support ticket), but they were unable to delete the runaway email. I submitted a ticket on August 5. The bad email quickly replicated over 250,000 times and crippled my email client. After five tries their back-end support team finally fixed the problem on September 1. It took them AN ENTIRE MONTH to repair a problem that, in my opinion, should take a good admin five minutes to fix. In my opinion, stay far away from Rackspace Managed Hosting. I think their support team is massively overworked. Your business could be crippled while you wait.

Rackspace. They've got you covered.

Rating: 8 out of 10
August 11, 2017
Vetted Review
Verified User
Rackspace Managed Hosting
3 years of experience
Rackspace is our dedicated hosting service for our website and many other components that are vital for the day to day running of our business. Everything we do, everything we provide to earn money is made possible due to Rackspace. We required a service that ensured flawless hosting with great customer service and response times, and we got it.
  • Excellent response time to queries about possible changes, upgrades or concerns.
  • Top of the range technologies at our disposal due to Rackspace always keeping up to date with the latest technologies.
  • Amazing response to any problems or even the hints of problems to quickly diagnose and fix anything that might cause even a moment's downtime.
Cons
  • Possibly a little behind some other solutions when it comes to cloud infrastructure.
If you need to run a moderately large sized service, like a website, and need to know it is in capable hands and ready to weather anything from malicious attacks to massive loads, Rackspace is the provider for you. If you are needing to host a site to advertise a local parish bake sale, Rackspace might not be your best place to go.
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