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Packet vs WebFaction: What are the differences?
Packet: The Leading Bare Metal Cloud for Developers. Deploy screaming fast dedicated servers in under 10 minutes via portal, API, or common cloud orchestration tools. No hypervisor, modern IPv6 network, and hourly pricing; WebFaction: 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.
Packet and WebFaction belong to "Cloud Hosting" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Packet are:
- Premium configs, always available
- Fully dedicated, no hypervisors
- Deploy in less than 10 minutes
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
"Great performance" is the top reason why over 2 developers like Packet, while over 2 developers mention "Cost effective" as the leading cause for choosing WebFaction.
Pros of Equinix Metal
- Great performance3
- No multi tenancy3
- Fantastic customer support2
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
