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    IONOS Hosting

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AIONOS a provider of cloud infrastructure, cloud services, and hosting headquartered in Germany, boasting more than eight million customer contracts. They provide individual web services including SSL certificates (provided by GeoTrust True BusinessID) , domain registration services, website hosting, and managed hosting services supporting WordPress, VPS hosting, and ASP.NET hosting.N/A

    Rackspace Managed Hosting

    Score1 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.

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    IONOS HostingRackspace Managed Hosting
    Editions & Modules
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    Linux
    $23.00
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    Windows
    $75.00
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    Windows + SQL
    $128.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IONOS HostingRackspace Managed Hosting
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    IONOS HostingRackspace Managed Hosting
    Considered Both Products
    IONOS, Inc
    Chose IONOS Hosting
    Rackspace I find to be too pricey for the service they offer. Pagely is very much WordPress oriented. I've had downtime with both that I haven't experienced with 1&1.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Small Businesses
    Namecheap
    Score9.4 out of 10
    Flywheel
    Score9.9 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    WP Engine
    Score8.8 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IONOS HostingRackspace Managed Hosting
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    1.0
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    2.2
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    10.0
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    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    -
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    1.0
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    Product Scalability
    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    IONOS HostingRackspace Managed Hosting
    Likelihood to Recommend
    IONOS, Inc
    I run five websites off of 1&1 for different outshoots of the company. For our web needs it works perfectly. We have a midgrade hosting package and it works perfectly. I know if issues arose from traffic or storage space 1&1 would have a solution for us.
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    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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    Pros
    IONOS, Inc
    • Private registration: 1&1 offers free private registration which makes them an automatic favorite.
    • Reliable customer service: always someone available when I call in and I have never had my issue not get resolved.
    • Easy to use dashboard: domains in one place with DNS settings and other things that can be tweaked. It's easy to add an SSL certificate to domains as well.
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    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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    Cons
    IONOS, Inc
    • From my experience, customer services does not know how to address issues in an understandable language
    • I feel that they arbitrarily overcharge w/o any explanation
    • In my opinion it is really pricey
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    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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    Likelihood to Renew
    IONOS, Inc
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    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!
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    Usability
    IONOS, Inc
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    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
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    Reliability and Availability
    IONOS, Inc
    In over 8 years of operations, we have not had a single outage that affected us.
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    Rackspace
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    Performance
    IONOS, Inc
    The email system has not impeded out mail flow in any way, and we do not notice the delays we sometimes see with other systems that include spam/junk mail filtering.
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    Rackspace
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    Support Rating
    IONOS, Inc
    No answers on this topic
    Rackspace
    In my experience, their support team is massively overworked — taking FOUR DAYS to look at tickets, and a MONTH to fix problems!
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    Alternatives Considered
    IONOS, Inc
    Rackspace I find to be too pricey for the service they offer. Pagely is very much WordPress oriented. I've had downtime with both that I haven't experienced with 1&1.
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    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.
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    Scalability
    IONOS, Inc
    The scalability of the email solution far exceeds our needs and would be suitable for organizations not looking for an enterprise sized multipurpose solution (O365, Google Workspace, etc).
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    Rackspace
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    Return on Investment
    IONOS, Inc
    • 1&1 host our email and domains adequately. We can easily add and remove emails as needed.
    • 1&1 also works with our website platform, Memberclicks.
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    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.
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