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Rackspace Alternatives

Weighing your options? Checkout these 5 alternatives that could help you accomplish your goal.

• Azure App Service

  Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform developed by Microsoft that allows developers to develop, deploy and manage their applications. Azure utilizes virtualization technology to emulate functions of a real CPU in a virtual machine but on a massive scale. Azure provides a wide array of services that include computing, analytics, storage and networking solutions.

• Azure Storage

  Azure storage is a recent addition to Microsoft Azure Cloud. In similar fashion to Amazon S3 or DigitalOcean Speces, Azure Cloud Storage provides a durable, secure and highly scalable object storage for Azure virtual machines.

• Heroku

  Heroku is one of the first cloud platofrms that allows developers to store and run their cloud on virtualized containers (called 'dynos' here). Heroku supports code written in Node, Ruby, Scala, PHP, Go, Java and Clojure. You can also run any other language using Heroku's custom buildpacks.

• Netlify

  Netlify is a cloud-based modern web developement platform with integrated build tools, customizable add-ons, and deployments to a redundant network of servers. Netlify offers two additional products: Netlify CMS - headless content management system and Jamstack - JavaScript-based web development architecture with reusable APIs.

• Shopify

  Developed in Canada, Shopify is one of the largest e-commerce platforms offering its users entire suite of solutions for easy online shop creation. In Shopify you can create your store and host it, but also manage your products, inventory and payment methods.

• UpCloud

  Upcloud is European-based cloud service provider that boasts offering one of the fastest servers with 100% uptime SLA. Thanks to their intuitive control panel and a solid API the configuration and management time is reduced to a minimum. Upcloud also offer s wide range of open source API-clients and tools.

• Vultr

  Vultr, developed by David Aninowsky and owned by Vultr Holdings Corporation. Is a Cloud service offering a wide range of hosting and computing solutions for developers. Mostly used for their reliable, fast, and fairly cheap Virtual Private Servers (or VPS for short).