{"id":1078,"date":"2015-10-24T21:10:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T15:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2023-03-03T20:59:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T02:59:53","slug":"rackspace-cloud-hosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/rackspace-cloud-hosting\/","title":{"rendered":"Rackspace Cloud Hosting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rackspace offers a multitude of hosting options and in my opinion is one of the more flexible hosting options in the market place today. \u00a0They offer both managed and self-managed options; I have only utilized <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/cloud\/cloud-migration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-lasso-id=\"496\">Rackspace<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0self managed hosting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With cloud hosting you can add or removed servers on-demand. &nbsp;Each server can be of any flavor you&#8217;d like, meaning you can pick the CPU, RAM, storage size, and bandwidth you need. &nbsp;Servers are paid for by the hour, so you can spin one up for testing something quickly and have minimal charges. &nbsp;Additional storage for images, media, etc. can be added as block storage to meet any of the capacity you might need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, a load balancer can be utilized paired with an auto-scaling server configuration. &nbsp;With this configuration, as website traffic increases and demand requires new servers can be added automatically to ensure every visitor has an optimal experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One other point I&#8217;d like to bring up is the monitoring offered by Rackspace. &nbsp;You can keep tabs on the CPU, RAM, HDD, TCP traffic, etc. in realtime monitoring. &nbsp;This can be great for troubleshooting code issues, server problems, traffic issues, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After using Rackspace for several years now, I would recommend their services for websites both large and small. \u00a0I encourage you to take a look at what they offer and give them a try. \u00a0Like I said, their billing is hourly, so if you don&#8217;t find it suits your needs, the expense for testing it out will be minimal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rackspace.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-lasso-id=\"497\">Try Rackspace Cloud Hosting Today<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rackspace offers a multitude of hosting options and in my opinion is one of the more flexible hosting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[115,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recommended-products","category-recommended-website-hosting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ManagedCloudMeansanimad200x200.gif","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4BbcR-ho","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3275,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/3275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/promincproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}