Rackspace hosting vs Liquid Web Magento
Rackspace® hosting doesn’t compare to the speed, security, and scalability of Liquid Web Magento cloud.
Does Rackspace hosting give you your money’s worth?
Don’t let Rackspace leave you behind
Rackspace provides server space, but after that … you’re on your own. There’s no follow-up, no helpful guidance. It’s up to you to get your money’s worth.
If you don’t have the budget for an IT team, you’ll be spending hours managing basic maintenance, optimizations, and security.
Not at Liquid Web. We’re an extension of your team, delivering valuable IT, DevOps, and SecOps services that save you time and money. Compliance and optimization are built-in.
Essential features at a steep price
Rackspace hardware has adequate capacity, but premium security, scalability, and support aren’t included. You’ll pay out of pocket for services your store needs to thrive.
Liquid Web hosting includes everything you need to deliver success at a better value than Rackspace hosting. Free premium support, proactive server monitoring, autoscaling, and cloud acceleration.
That means you can drive more sales on high-traffic days, custom-tune performance, and solve Magento problems faster — without breaking your budget.
More revenue potential, more speed, more support
After a seamless migration, Liquid Web was able to supercharge a Magento agency’s billable hours and time to market.
Worst Customer Support – Do not use
After a month of trying to sort issues regards DNS and having in writing and in tickets assurances that no changes to the DNS would be made on my account they deleted all the zone files anyway. Every client of mines website went down including email (which they Rackspace themselves host). You cannot contact your account manager even the Tech guys couldn’t help and they cannot contact their own managers. Customer service is non-existent. They charge premium prices and supply discount service.
Nigel Brewer on Trustpilot
Rackspace hosting doesn’t speak Magento
If you’re hoping for guidance or input on a Magento-related issue, Rackspace is not the right host for you. They terminated their Magento team in 2017.
Unlike Rackspace, Magento was built on Liquid Web servers. We are the only provider with Magento expertise since its inception — and we offer more application support than any other host.
You can access the industry’s most knowledgeable Magento experts 24/7/365. From code to security, we help you get to the bottom of any problem and come out on top.
Rigid pricing standards
Rackspace requires you to sign up for years of service ahead of time. There are no month-to-month options and no money-back guarantees.
They even make it difficult to cancel your service. Customers must notify Rackspace hosting within 90 days to cancel their services without penalty.
At Liquid Web, we don’t force you into multi-year contracts. Our Magento infrastructure and cloud services are billed annually or monthly. We steer clear of hidden fees by building everything you need into the platform. And you can cancel anytime.
Free migrations, done for you
Migrating to Rackspace hosting? You’ll have to do it yourself. Manually.
Save time and money with a truly free migration. Liquid Web migrates companies like yours every day with speed and accuracy. Every aspect of your migration, including PCI compliance, is managed by trained, in-house experts.
No matter the scale or complexity of your requirements, Liquid Web migrates your Magento store seamlessly.