Rackspace Cloud Servers vs UpCloud: What are the differences?
What is Rackspace Cloud Servers? 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.
What is UpCloud? A control panel and API lets you spend more time coding and less time managing your cloud infrastructure. It was formed by a group of like-minded thinkers who saw a clear opportunity to defy mediocrity: to become a cloud infrastructure company that would outperform every existing company on the market.
Rackspace Cloud Servers and UpCloud 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, UpCloud provides the following key features:
- Industry-leading performance
- Faster-than-SSD with MaxIOPS
- Native IPv6 Support