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Rackspace Cloud Servers vs WebFaction: What are the differences?
Developers describe Rackspace Cloud Servers as "Powerful Linux and Windows servers in minutes". Cloud Servers is based on OpenStack, the open and scalable operating system for building public and private clouds. With the open cloud, you get reliable cloud hosting, without locking your data into one proprietary platform. On the other hand, WebFaction is detailed as "Hosting for developers: full shell access to fast servers with all your favorite tools pre-installed and maintained for you". No need to spend hours installing and configuring the software, database and other tools. We have over 50 one-click installers in our control panel.
Rackspace Cloud Servers and WebFaction can be categorized as "Cloud Hosting" tools.
Some of the features offered by Rackspace Cloud Servers are:
- 100% power and network uptime guarantee
- Cloud choice- We run the world’s largest open cloud, giving you flexibility, choice, and no vendor lock-in. That means your workloads are portable. Host them with any open cloud vendor—or even in your own data center.
- Technical expertise- We employ more Red Hat® Certified Engineers than any other hosting company. And over 100 Rackspace employees have earned the title of Microsoft® Certified Professional.
On the other hand, WebFaction provides the following key features:
- 100GB diskspace, RAID-10 setup
- 512MB application RAM
- Free RAM for web and database servers
"Quick and reliable cloud servers" is the primary reason why developers consider Rackspace Cloud Servers over the competitors, whereas "Cost effective" was stated as the key factor in picking WebFaction.
Most bioinformatics shops nowadays are hosting on AWS or Azure, since they have HIPAA tiers and offer enterprise SLA contracts. Meanwhile Heroku hasn't historically supported HIPAA. Rackspace and Google Cloud would be other hosting providers we would consider, but we just don't get requests for them. So, we mostly focus on AWS and Azure support.
Pros of Rackspace Cloud Servers
- Quick and reliable cloud servers42
- Great customer support29
- SSDs20
- Uses OpenStack10
- Windows server 2012 possible2
- Easy integration with Github2
- Ubuntu1
- Ssh access1
Pros of WebFaction
- Cost effective3
- Great customer support3
- Servers administered for you3
- Comes with Rails installed automatically2
- Great documentation1
- SSH access1
- Best price1
- SSD1
- Many pre-installed apps1
- Having the least amount of new "fancy" terminologies1
- No needs configuration1
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