40 engineers on Hacker News describe using Rackspace first-hand: 9 endorse it, 13 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Rackspace is quite a joke right now. They have lots of overlapping products, legacy offerings”
regret · production · tecleandor · 2023-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been having this problem a lot recently. First Rackspace, later CloudFlare.”
regret · production · maxk42 · 2021-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We had this happen with rackspace - hence we moved to Amazon”
regret · production · taf2 · 2016-03-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We moved off their public cloud in favor of a pure private cloud footprint. ... They have a social media team that monitors these things closely”
mixed · production · chrissnell · 2015-08-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using RackSpace for couple years before moving to DigitalOcean... my bills kept growing and server started to have constant issues every now and then”
regret · production · 2 yr · usaphp · 2015-07-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My company hosted with Rackspace Cloud for nearly 3 years ($1k/mo average) but recently switched to AWS. Too much frustration and technical issues.”
regret · production · 3 yr · meritt · 2014-07-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The main issue is, we run a lot of average-powered machines and the prices at Rackspace were too oppressive.”
regret · production · mikegioia · 2014-07-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Rackspace is a great company to deal with if you're willing to pay.”
endorse · production · benmorris · 2014-05-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Anecdotally, I would say Rackspace has the most intuitive interface and good telephone support.”
endorse · production · amadeuspzs · 2013-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The servers are 2x faster than rackspace (same RAM size) and we pay only half the price.”
regret · production · fotcorn · 2013-09-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run our current Rails 2.x products on shared servers (Rackspace). Their default set up works just fine.”
endorse · production · ahoyhere · 2013-02-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“RackSpace's top of the line cloud server is, for our application's needs, a total dog.”
regret · production · 1 yr · bsenftner · 2012-12-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use Rackspace Sites for our most of our clients who don't need servers, HOWEVER... I would love to see Public Cloud Servers for Rackspace”
endorse · production · thejosh · 2012-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We set up on Rackspace Cloud in a couple of hours, and we're running just fine.”
endorse · production · scott_w · 2012-01-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Rackspace cloud for a couple of clients and reckon they're lagging far behind Amazon and the other providers.”
regret · production · mocko · 2011-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Rackspace is very expensive... almost 2x their competitors. At work we left rackspace recently, because we needed to upgrade our server”
regret · production · dholowiski · 2011-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We moved to Rackspace and have limited our alpha users to $100, it's still expensive”
regret · production · BrandonCWhite · 2011-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Currently we use Rackspacecloud with very good results. Their control panel has a few glitches but my support experience was out of this world.”
endorse · production · pxtreme75 · 2011-10-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“after this, we moved to Rackspace.. there is no way that a sys admin running one rack of equipment is in the same position as Rackspace”
endorse · production · netpenthe · 2011-04-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use rackspace's managed hosting solutions as well as their cloud. ... the support is very, very good.”
endorse · production · eof · 2010-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using RackSpace Cloud Servers for over a year now and am happy with their service.”
endorse · personal · 1 yr · dennyferra · 2010-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Rackspace has the big company mentality -- if our interface doesn't have an option for it, it doesn't exist.”
regret · production · catch23 · 2010-11-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Incredibly slow control panel, features sometimes work and sometimes don't, useless tech support”
regret · production · shazow · 2010-10-17 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Years ago, we migrated of Rackspace to Azure, but the database latency was diabolical.”
neutral · production · abrookewood · 2025-03-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We migrated from Rackspace to GCP. When I joined the company, it was clear Rackspace was loosing the cloud race”
neutral · production · cnj · 2022-04-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have seen from any host that I've used in nearly a decade, including ec2, rackspace, and gogrid”
neutral · production · AJ007 · 2014-02-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“"production" on Rackspace Cloud (NOT Chicago datacenter!) or AWS”
neutral · production · ericclemmons · 2013-10-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run on Asterisk and are hosted by RackSpace.”
neutral · production · takecarex3 · 2013-10-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“About a year ago we migrated from Rackspace to Server Central, a colo facility in Chicago.”
neutral · production · cnagele · 2013-09-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“matches our deployment environment (in Rackspace Cloud)”
neutral · production · pixelmonkey · 2013-06-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run cloudant clusters in nearly 20 data centers globally on many different providers (ec2, softlayer, rackspace, joyent, azure, hostway, ...)”
neutral · production · mlmilleratmit · 2012-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“before we exited to Rackspace we had more than a dozen cpu variants in production”
neutral · production · seats · 2012-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run on Rackspace but our standbys are on Amazon”
neutral · production · sdizdar · 2012-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Dedicated servers (at rackspace) running a private cloud for our website and shop plus various cloud based systems (EC2, Rackspacecloud, et al.)”
neutral · production · dpaessler · 2011-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“On E-mail I use Rackspace's hosted exchange because my users were used to an Exchange server.”
neutral · production · TomOfTTB · 2011-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We are testing out Rackspace. Hopefully that will be a better experience.”
neutral · personal · EternitiesEnd · 2011-05-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've used both and performance-wise my team didn't see any drastic differences.”
neutral · production · djjose · 2011-04-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“If all I wanted was 'easy' I'd have stayed w/ my VPS at Rackspace, or gotten a Dreamhost account.”
neutral · personal · andrewvc · 2010-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We had had multiple outages on our Rackspace box that were our own fault, due to bad server management.”
neutral · production · gfunk911 · 2010-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use SimpleDB from outside of AWS datacenters (Rackspace)”
neutral · production · szilveszter · 2010-10-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?