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AppFog (discontinued) vs. Rackspace Fabric

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AppFog (discontinued)
Score 6.6 out of 10
N/A
AppFog was a cloud-agnostic application and infrastructure management platform used to manage workloads across on-premises and third-party cloud environments. It has been discontinued.N/A
Rackspace Fabric
Score 6.3 out of 10
N/A
A solution to bring cloud security, billing, operations and management together. Rackspace Fabric offers a single platform for automated multicloud management. Service includes access to Rackspace cloud technology expertise, and provides a unified interface management for all cloud resources across Azure, AWS, GCP, and VMware, in a single, SaaS like operating environment.
$500
per month
Pricing
AppFog (discontinued)Rackspace Fabric
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Minimum Service
$500.00
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AppFog (discontinued)Rackspace Fabric
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
AppFog (discontinued)Rackspace Fabric
Considered Both Products
AppFog (discontinued)
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose AppFog (discontinued)
Appfog was one of the requirements of our project since it was the fastest growing PAAS provider. Also it was easy to deploy an application with multiple options to choose for the development environment for our application. It was "ALL in ONE."
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose AppFog (discontinued)
Primarily because it used to have a good free tier earlier, which it does not anymore. It's simple, and things are available to use. Compared to it's competitors, it does has less features, but that kind of acts in its favor. That adds to the simplicity, and ease of use for a …
Rackspace Fabric
Chose Rackspace Fabric
I've used Google/Amazons web services. They both make it easy to accidentally incur bills for things you didn't know were billable (or forgot about). Rackspace makes it extremely clear and doesn't lure you in with so many free trials that try to lock you in at a later time.
Steve Surya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Steve Surya
Solutions Architect
Chose Rackspace Fabric
I also used Monitis as a monitoring service for our server. Rackspace'S monitoring sends immediate notifications while Monitis might take a couple minutes to understand if a service is down. Since Rackspace has their monitoring integrated with their support system, it helps us …
Features
AppFog (discontinued)Rackspace Fabric
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
AppFog (discontinued)
6.5
Ratings
21% below category average
Rackspace Fabric
-
Ratings
Ease of building user interfaces7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Scalability5.30 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform management overhead6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform access control6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration6.60 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment creation7.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment replication8.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification6.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue recovery6.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
AppFog (discontinued)Rackspace Fabric
Small Businesses
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.7 out of 10
VMware Cloud Director
VMware Cloud Director
Score 8.5 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
IBM Turbonomic
IBM Turbonomic
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.3 out of 10
vRealize Operations (discontinued)
vRealize Operations (discontinued)
Score 10.0 out of 10
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User Ratings
AppFog (discontinued)Rackspace Fabric
Likelihood to Recommend
6.6
(0 ratings)
7.3
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
AppFog (discontinued)Rackspace Fabric
Likelihood to Recommend
AppFog is good for academic purposes. It comes in very handy for cloud deployments.
Verified User
Anonymous
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In the case of our non working hours, this service is excellent. Since the service auto creates a support ticket for the Rackspace team in case of a service being down, the support team can work on a support ticket and fix the issue for us. This is all automated and we don't even need to be involved most of times.
Steve Surya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Steve Surya
Solutions Architect
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Pros
  • Quick deployment of pre-built virtual machines
  • Some of the virtual machines also are readily available with a pack of softwares
  • Good Stability. Using it as a student, I have never experienced any downtime issues with the projects deployed on AppFog.
Verified User
Anonymous
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  • Immediate email notifications: In case a service is down on our servers, we get immediate email notifications via rackspace cloud monitoring service. This helps us to know about the issues and we get in contact with support team to get it resolved.
  • Configuration on specific services: We can configure this monitoring on specific services. So for example if i don't want to get notified if MySQL concurrent users limit reached, then I do not need to configure this monitoring for MySQL. I can just use it whenever needed for defined services.
  • Group emails and technical contacts emails: The monitoring service can send email alerts to a number of email addresses. Primarily the ones who are added as a technical contact. It helps all people get notified about any issue.
  • Auto ticket management: Rackspace automatically creates a support ticket when a service is down and is notified by their monitoring service.
Steve Surya | TrustRadius Reviewer
Steve Surya
Solutions Architect
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Cons
  • Though it is good and easy for developers, it lacks operational activities and monitoring tools.
  • It is easy to deploy WAR on AppFog with its console but sometimes it can lack on the performance and feasibility.
Verified User
Anonymous
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  • It would be nice if there were more templates so that beginners could easily create complex monitors
  • I seemed to stumble upon the cloud monitoring service after having Rackspace for a while
Tyler Hildebrandt | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Alternatives Considered
Appfog was one of the requirements of our project since it was the fastest growing PAAS provider. Also it was easy to deploy an application with multiple options to choose for the development environment for our application. It was "ALL in ONE."
Verified User
Anonymous
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I've used Google/Amazons web services. They both make it easy to accidentally incur bills for things you didn't know were billable (or forgot about). Rackspace makes it extremely clear and doesn't lure you in with so many free trials that try to lock you in at a later time
Tyler Hildebrandt | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Return on Investment
  • Our project was deployed with good efficiency and easily accessible.
  • The platform was much recommeded across the groups and peers.
Verified User
Anonymous
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  • I have overpaid in the past for services I didn't need
  • The steepish learning curve might slow things down at first
  • I have learned a lot using Rackspace Cloud Monitoring!
Tyler Hildebrandt | TrustRadius Reviewer
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