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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloud bare metal servers are cloud servers configurable in hourly/monthly options, on-demand, from any location—with a selection of standard features and services for small businesses and enterprise demands. Users can customize RAM and SSDs with 11M+ configurations from which to choose.

    $0.51

    per hour

    Rackspace Managed Hosting

    Score1 out of 10
    N/ARackspace Managed Hosting is cloud computing company Rackspace's managed IT services and IaaS offering. Its infrastructure options include bare metal servers, virtual single-shared servers, and cloud multi-tenant environments.

    $23

    per month

    Pricing
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal ServersRackspace Managed Hosting
    Editions & Modules
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    starting at $0.51
    per hour
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    starting at $241.00
    per month
    Linux
    $23.00
    per month
    Windows
    $75.00
    per month
    Windows + SQL
    $128.00
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal ServersRackspace Managed Hosting
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsIBM Bare Metal Servers offer a choice between hourly or monthly pre-configured servers or can be customized with single to quad processing solutions. Bare metal servers are available worldwide and with no monthly contracts. Amonthly bare metal server built to spec can be ordered and made available in two to four hours—with 500 GB/month outbound bandwidth included. An hourly bare metal server can be ordered, and it is made ready for in 20 to 30 minutes. Public outbound bandwidth is charged per gigabyte.—
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    IBM Cloud Bare Metal ServersRackspace Managed Hosting
    Considered Both Products
    IBM
    Chose IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Bare metal servers are more suitable to our needs and give us more control over our production environment.
    Incentivized
    Chose IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Great offering and support from IBM Cloud Bare Metal servers
    Incentivized
    Rackspace
    Chose Rackspace Managed Hosting
    We used Rackspace for less important servers that we needed to host outside of our primary hosting provider's network. We use IBM Cloud (Softlayer) for our primary production hosting, and Rackspace has served us well for having servers elsewhere. We selected Rackspace because …
    Incentivized
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    Features
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal ServersRackspace Managed Hosting
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers and Rackspace Managed Hosting
    Feature
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    8.3
    79 Ratings
    Rackspace Managed Hosting
    -
    Ratings
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime8.877 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling8.661 Ratings00 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing8.551 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates8.057 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring tools8.270 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images8.361 Ratings00 Ratings
    Operating system support8.476 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security controls8.574 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automation7.77 Ratings00 Ratings
    User Ratings
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal ServersRackspace Managed Hosting
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.2
    (81 ratings)
    1.0
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    2.2
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.3
    (9 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (23 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)