RackSpace

Submitted by admin on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 02:45

 
Rackspace Review
Rackspace hosting company was founded back in 2005. Rackspace hosting service is a reputable, reliable and well known hosting provider. It mainly offers three main product lines; Cloud Hosting, Email and App Services, and Managed Hosting. The Cloud Hosting service is the most popular one amongst the three. The Cloud Hosting services include File Storage, Servers, and Web Hosting and so users can very easily set up cloud server using Rackspace’s Cloud Servers product. Rackspace also has a very determined customer service staff that is specialized in solving tech related problems of users very quickly and efficiently. The customer service team can be reached at any time of the day; it is open for providing service 24 hours via their toll free phone number, online email ticket, live chat, and forums.
Rackspace offers a variety of different Linux server images for users to choose from: multiple different versions of Fedora, Debian, Red Hat, CentOs, Ubuntu, Oracle, Gentoo and ArchLinux. Rackspace also provides us with five different Windows server images including two versions of Windows 2003 Server and 3 versions of Windows 2008 Server. Setting up and accessing a server on Rackspace hosting is very easy and quick. Users can easily see free tutorials and Web Building Tools to learn how to operate very fast even if they do not have sufficient technical knowledge or background. Setting up a cloud computer on AWS is relatively easy and smooth, and provides users with everything.
Top Rackspace features include:

  • Easy in handling huge amounts of traffic
  • Large storage space
  • The website is very media rich and loads very fast
  • In case of big spikes in traffic, the cloud handles the situation very efficiently
  • Infinite and immediate upgrade possibilities
  • Very efficient Rackspace tools that even let users to check all types of server data on their iPhone e.g. see graphs of memory, CPU etc
  • 24 hours customer support service

Cons of Rackspace:
There are not many negative things in Rackspace just two really minor gripes:

  • The initial set up and transfer of a site is not very easy. Rackspace hosting does not make it easy to move from one host to another which generally is also the problem with maximum companies.
  • The cost is also a bit higher than its competitors but Rackspace in return provides a lot more dependable up time and a great bandwidth.