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Animesh
Verified reviewer
Information Technology and Services, 10,000+ employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2022
Best Virtual Server in least price.
The nicest part about cloud servers is that they allow newcomers to learn a lot about the cloud for a little cost. Its excellent customer service will allow you to continue to utilize Rackspace cloud servers.
PROSThe best part about this cloud service is its affordability. For this price, you get a lot of stuff, and I really appreciate the monitoring alerts and numerous options to scale your server, which is all beautifully put up.
CONSAs a long-time user of this tool, I haven't found anything to criticize, but one recommendation for improvement is that the permissions settings aren't always intuitive.
Derick
Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees
Used daily for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
2
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed September 2020
Great hosting for non-developers
It is great for non-tech persons or for small and simple websites that you don't wish to administer personally.
PROSCloud Servers by Rackspace enables any non-tech person operates a site and with minimal training can deploy complex web based systems like Wordpress, Drupal, Dropbox-like sites, etc. The technical support team is among the best in the industry and you will be in great hands using this product.
CONSFor technical people there aren't many options to tweak the server. If you need to change a setting in the server you are out of luck, servers come as they are and Rackspace quickly suggest you to change to a much expensive server. The "unlimited" database space is not genuine, when you have a big enough database you get blocked without warning affecting your business. If you are a tech person I would not recommend this product.
Reason for choosing Cloud Servers
Rackspace bought my previous provider Slicehost
Reasons for switching to Cloud Servers
Slicehost ended operations
Anonymous
2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
1
EASE OF USE
2
VALUE FOR MONEY
1
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
1
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed February 2021
Surprise "Renewals" and Poor Service
I even shared documents showing a 25% decrease in revenue, but they said that's not good enough and they demand we pay them for their service. We don't even get them to work on our tickets unless we open them, put tons of details, videos, then we have to call them immediately to get any attention at all.
PROSLiterally nothing. The Rackspace organization has declined completely over the last 10 years. I was so excited to start working with them again when I started my own company, but they treat us like second class citizens. Our rep even told us we were too small for them to care about.
CONSThe service. They are uppity, rude, and dishonest. There is some supposed renewal that they say we signed but my records show that we are out of contract, so they want to try to make us "buy out" our contract. We are barely hanging on with COVID and they are the only partner who did not try to do anything to accommodate small business in this time.
Reason for choosing Cloud Servers
Because I thought they would be good to us and instead they are really putting the screws to us. Run, don't walk.
Ben
Verified reviewer
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed January 2018
Easy to use virtual servers for your business
We use Rackspace virtual servers for our short life development, testing and staging servers. They allow us to start up a VM quickly and relatively cheaply, from either a base image or a customer image. Once up, the performance is excellent, giving a stable environment for the purpose the VM has been provisioned. Control over the servers is good, allowing fine tuning of servers, storage and availability options.
CONSAlthough Rackspace is relatively cheap, it can still become expensive quickly. It also fails to give the piece of mind required to put customer servers into production.
Benjamin
Verified reviewer
Automotive, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed March 2019
Rackspace and your business!
Rackspace provides a product that allows the user a very easy transition from other products. We utilize it daily for email, and while it has worked out fantastic thus far, it is very generic compared to other products.
CONSIt offers plenty of options, however the User Interface could be more attractive, the options could be improved as well.
Anonymous
1,001-5,000 employees
Used weekly for more than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
2
EASE OF USE
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
1
FUNCTIONALITY
2
Reviewed September 2020
Can't Believe It's Still a Company
I started with Rackspace in 2012 and it was a great relationship for more than half a decade but I could in no way recommend them now, especially with so many excellent competitors.
PROSI had many years of good service from Rackspace Cloud Servers but they have lost their way and no longer seem interested in "fanatical support."
CONSThey have locked me out of my account for days, taken away servers to only have them reappear months later without warning and then get billed for them. They keep creating more storage containers and charging for then for no reason.
Reasons for switching to Cloud Servers
Wanted to move to a virtualized, cloud based environment.
Kevin
Verified reviewer
Consumer Goods, 2-10 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
3
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed April 2019
A good alternative option if budget is somewhat limited
This is my 3rd/4th server company I have worked with and it does ranked near the top. I wish their resize, modification was a little more extensive in pricing options
PROSI like that the monitoring alerts and different ways to scale your sever is all setup nicely. The pricing seems a bit limited and higher in choice, but overall does fit what you would pay for
CONSSome of the way the server infrastructure is organized through your account does not seem efficient. The permissions setting was not all intuitive as well
Anonymous
11-50 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed July 2022
Great hosting service with outstanding customer support
Before AWS it was the standard for cloud and collocated servers. It’s transparent and easy to use. If you need raw access to bare metal servers, Rackspace is a great alternative.
CONSIt fell behind AWS and other cloud native hosting services.
Pardeep
Verified reviewer
Oil & Energy, 501-1,000 employees
Used daily for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed December 2018
AWS Cloud Service
Since we have cloud services for one of our project, we cut down our onsite hardware and capital expenses. One less thing to think about (about hardware) when working on software projects.
CONSOnly thing bothers me is the limit of the data storage.
Anonymous
51-200 employees
Used weekly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
4
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed October 2018
If you want a more hands-off approach to infra management, Rackspace is a good candidate.
If you have a clear idea of the requirements for your infrastructure, or if your infrastructure is relatively simple and straightforward, it's really fast to set something up with Rackspace since they have so many templates they can use.
CONSIf you have some unique parts to your infrastructure, the back-and-forth through their support ticket system can get a bit tedious. I recommend resolving certain issues over a phone call, if possible, since that can be faster.
Anonymous
51-200 employees
Used daily for less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
2
EASE OF USE
3
VALUE FOR MONEY
2
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
3
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed March 2018
Good For Small Businesses That Don't Predict To Have A Big Growth On A Short Term.
The thing we liked the most about this software was the ease of use, implementation, and integration with the external systems.
CONSThe thing we liked the least about this software was the fact that we had a lot of recurrent issues that had a huge impact on the company growth, in terms of stability and the systems going down.
Zach
Verified reviewer
Marketing and Advertising, 51-200 employees
Used weekly for less than 2 years
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
5
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed December 2018
Rackspace has been an awesome solution for our team's image hosting needs.
RackSpace has been a significant improvement for our team's hosting needs, and we're able to push changes to client sites twice as fast now.
PROSRackspace is faster and more reliable than the previous rental server our team had installed.
CONSNo real complaints - I suppose it took awhile to implement fully, but once it was up the server worked great and never crashed.
Sydney
Verified reviewer
Financial Services, 51-200 employees
Used less than 12 months
OVERALL RATING:
3
EASE OF USE
4
FUNCTIONALITY
3
Reviewed August 2018
Rackspace Review
What I like most is that it is very easy to use
CONSThe support services are not very good and it is hard to contact any support specialist.
Kevin
Used free trial
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
4
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
4
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed April 2017
Fanatical Support
While a bit more than going with Azure direct from Microsoft, they do really have the support that Microsoft does not. Sure, they are basically reselling it, but when you call Rackspace, you always get a human, instantly. That alone for me is worth the price difference. Also, all the techs are local in Texas, I like that.
Matt
Used free trial
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
5
Reviewed October 2016
Top notch customer support and a great product
We have used Rackspace managed cloud servers for several years to serve our e-commerce website. Their products have always delivered but I would give 6 stars to their customer support if I could. Always helpful and quick. The only drawback is they are not the cheapest solution out there.
Malhar
Used monthly for less than 6 months
OVERALL RATING:
5
EASE OF USE
5
VALUE FOR MONEY
4
CUSTOMER SUPPORT
5
FUNCTIONALITY
4
Reviewed August 2017
Good Tool that is helping us improve
The user interface is simple and easy to use. Flexible when it comes to creating simple or complex workflows depending on the customer's requirements. Online documentation, and community forums, are extremely helpful.
CONSIf you have an immature organization, it will feel the pain provided by the structure this tool provides. It is a good pain caused by change.