Heroku vs Rackspace Cloud [EOL] comparison

Heroku and Rackspace Technology are both solutions in the PaaS Clouds category. Additionally, 87% of Heroku users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Rackspace Technology users who would recommend it.

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87% willing to recommend

Rackspace Cloud [EOL]

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100% willing to recommend

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Categories and Ranking

Heroku

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

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Rackspace Cloud [EOL]

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

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Featured Reviews

Faizan Haider

Senior Software Engineer at Aldaim Solutions

Used for server deployment and provides auto maintenance of databases

Heroku is deployed on the cloud. We can deploy our private and public projects over at Heroku. Most of the time, when we are starting any new project from scratch, we have to implement our MVP for that project or the core idea. We are unsure how our traffic flow will go or the actual production environment requirements. We don't want to spend the most on the server sites, so then we can use it with our go-to plan for Heroku, and all the resources are available in the basic plan with the minimum expenses. So, it helps us to deploy and make our features available online at the minimum cost. Once we know our needs, we can add the professional add-ons and shift it to another platform. Heroku supports any resource listed in the marketplace. We just have to deploy our AI solutions, and Heroku can also support AI projects. I would recommend the solution to other users. I advise users not to purchase extra add-ons but to make scalable resources so that they can use all the resources efficiently. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

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Rajbir Singh

Director - DevOps and Infrastructure at INTIGRAL

There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services

It is very stable. It works 99.9 percent of the time. We are quite happy with it. This product is used to help broadcast football games' live streams, video matches and fantasy games, and it is used extensively. We have almost two million plus downloads, and during peak seasons, we could have 100,000 concurrent users watching 11 different matches.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable feature of Heroku is the continuous integration and applications it provides."

"Thanks to Heroku, we don't need to do as much direct management in AWS."

"The product is stable."

"The solution's most valuable feature is the auto maintenance of databases."

"We use Heroku to run generic data. We also use it for our customer development environment. It helps us to build and test websites."

"I like the tool's scalability, CLI, and dashboards."

"What I found most valuable about this solution is that it's easy to use and integrate with GitHub actions."

"It's easy to push a change and to deploy new things."

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"The most valuable feature for us is the support, which is really efficient."

"There is easy integration with multiple providers and third-party services."

"Image backup is a valuable feature. Even though this is a common feature, it is very helpful for us."

Cons

"Heroku doesn't support Docker images on the CI infrastructure."

"We don't find the pipelines intuitive. The user experience could be better. Having to set up multiple apps, then a pipeline, seems like an overkill on the amount of work to do."

"They could flesh out some of their analytics a little more."

"The pricing could be improved because scaling the database becomes costly."

"I improved the application performance by monitoring and adjusting the cleaner configuration to help set better lightweight limits on containers that run the app instances."

"We would like to be notified when something goes wrong in the process. When something is not working, we should get an alert."

"I think this solution would be improved if free demos were available indefinitely."

"Heroku had an authentication problem a few months ago, but they solved it."

More Heroku cons

"It doesn't offer Elastic IP like AWS. And also we can't configure our server based on region."

"It would be nice to have more built-in suites compared to others. It would enable easier integration."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"There is a standard fee for a processing unit, they call them "dynos," and then you pay for add-ons."

"The price of Heroku could be less expensive."

"The tool is free."

"I rate the tool's pricing a three out of ten."

"Its price is very good."

"Comparatively, this solution is a bit expensive."

"The service includes licenses (for operating systems, databases, etc.). Asset management is easier with services like that."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

University

Comms Service Provider

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Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	23
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	3

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	2

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Heroku?

I like the tool's scalability, CLI, and dashboards.

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What needs improvement with Heroku?

I don't like that the web server crashes every day, every 24 hours. The pricing could be improved because scaling the database becomes costly. The Docker features are not great. You cannot use any ...

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What is your primary use case for Heroku?

We use the solution for web applications and web APIs.

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Overview

Established in 2007, Heroku is a cloud application platform providing a streamlined, efficient place for web app developers to create and deploy their applications. Heroku is designed to maximize developer productivity. With the entire web application development process available on the Herokucloud, creating and rolling out web apps has been made more efficient, convenient, and cost-effective than ever before.

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Rackspace is a listed company that specializes in hybrid cloud environments to support your applications and sites. The environments are based on its open-source operating system OpenStack.Rackspace Cloud caters for the private cloud, public cloud, dedicated servers, or a hybrid of platforms.

Your Rackspace Cloud environment is customizable according to your cloud requirements, and all products work together seamlessly from one portal.

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Sample Customers

Facebook, UrbanDictionary, Code for America, Mailchimp, Rapportive, GitHub, TED, and Lyft.

3D Capacity, Acquity Group, Axios Systems, Behance, Blastro, Dominos Pizza, and Sage.

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