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I used to use Rackspace, but now I'm using AWS. Rackspace was nice, but AWS was a bit better on price (thought the two are priced slightly differently) and a se
by thomasfoster96 11y ago
I used to use Rackspace, but now I'm using AWS. Rackspace was nice, but AWS was a bit better on price (thought the two are priced slightly differently) and a secure setup was quicker on AWS than on Rackspace. I tend to use docs or forums to solve issues I have, so Rackspace's customer support wasn't all that useful compared to whatever Amazon offers.
Since then I've started using a few things like Elastic Beanstalk and continuous deployment, and getting them working on AWS was pretty pain free and easy. I don't think I could do as much on AWS now as I could on Rackspace.
Heroku looks nice but because of price I never tried it. Azure is also tempting to use, but as a non-customer their non-Windows offerings seem to be predictably second-rate.
- thomasfoster96 11y agoAll of that said, IaaS is still way too complicated. I'm sure there's room for someone to come along and have an offering that's 10x simpler to manage and use.