Rackspace hits the sweet spot between price, reliability, and usability.
November 20, 2021
Rackspace hits the sweet spot between price, reliability, and usability.

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Rackspace Managed Hosting
We use Rackspace for their OpenStack hosting. This allows us to run our automation in the cloud and on-prem the same. The benefit is tremendous as we don't have to write two sets of deployment logic and automation.
Pros
- OpenStack
- Support
- DNS
- AutoSaving
Cons
- Lack of features compared to other clouds
- More support for tools that expose the API to end users like ansible and terraform
- The workflow can sometimes be buggy.
- OpenStack hosting
- Great support
- Low costs
- Lowered costs compared to other cloud providers
- Had an unexpected knowledge gap cost
- Had an unexpected DRY payoff with hybrid cloud infrastructure
- AWS Auto Scaling, Azure DNS, Azure Virtual Machines, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes
RackSpace is in its own category. It's not really a direct competitor with the above. It seems to be hitting the gap between costs and effectiveness. They allow exposure to APIs in the same typical methods as other major providers and support most major tooling, albeit in a less effective way.
Do you think Rackspace Managed Hosting delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Rackspace Managed Hosting's feature set?
Yes
Did Rackspace Managed Hosting live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Rackspace Managed Hosting go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Rackspace Managed Hosting again?
Yes
Using Rackspace Managed Hosting
Pros | Cons |
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Feel confident using | Do not like to use Requires technical support Inconsistent Slow to learn Cumbersome Lots to learn |
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