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By Abhishek Ghosh May 22, 2014 5:37 pm Updated on May 22, 2014

Rackspace Cloud Hosting Cost and Tips for Reduced Bill

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Rackspace Cloud Hosting Billing Part is Clean. Cost is Predictable and If You Follow Our Tips, You Can Cut Your Cost to Minimum as Possible. Know it very well, Rackspace themselves also apply some of these tips, they practically write on official guide about the ways to reduce the billing. They also need to pay the cost for the infrastructure. You can read the article on what to choose – Managed or Unmanaged Rackspace Cloud Hosting. Managed not only differs at extra $100 USD charge, which might be difficult for many to maintain but also the hourly charges differs. You can check the official website and use their calculator to calculate the cost. You can check your every 24 hours expenditure by subtracting estimated consumption bill of the previous day from the current day, this will help you to calculate the cost of any upgrade. Rackspace has some free service like Cloud DNS. The best possible service is Rackspace Cloud Files. You can search our website with Rackspace Cloud Files and you will get lot of articles. You’ll target to use Rackspace Cloud Files as much as possible to reduce the billing.

 

Rackspace Cloud Hosting Cost : There is Nothing But Experience

 

For huge traffic websites with very less revenue, Rackspace is not the solution. As the quality of traffic is not great for conversion, it is actually not very good idea to use Rackspace. You need to use some B Grade web server for B Grade traffic. If the per day page view is 60K and monthly earning is 400 USD, it is not abnormal to get a $600 USD bill. As because Rackspace targets for delivering the best quality, first you need to think about your business model. No body in this world can reduce your cost because you have flaw in revenue model.

With time, you’ll grow experience to handle your billing. Cloud Sites is an aPaaS. When we used Rackspace Cloud Sites, we wrote a good number of tricks and tips. Rackspace Cloud Sites is great for running 10+ websites with not much traffic – it centralizes the management. Email, Management all are included. Honestly the Email hosting alone can be a big plus point for using Rackspace Cloud Sites. The control panel is best in this World. Unfortunately, you’ll not have an unique IP, you can SSH etc. It is not great for websites with more than 100K page views per month running WordPress. Almost all of us have 30-40 domains with lot of plans to do, they earn some money; for them Rackspace Cloud Sites is the best for that part. Using SSL is not practical on Cloud Sites. Most upgrades from Rackspace Cloud Sites to managed cloud. We recommend to use Rackspace Cloud Files with Rackspace Cloud Sites to decrease the chance of failure of loadbalancers in a multi tenant architecture and get the best page speed. Also it will also reduce the billing.

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Rackspace Cloud Hosting Cost and Tips for Reduced Bill

 

Rackspace Cloud Hosting Cost and Tips for Reduced Bill

 

Within Rackspace own network (servicenet) there is no bandwidth charge. So you’ll not get charged for updates, upgrades :

 

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You will not get charged on cloud servers bandwidth if your server’s abcd port is configured to listen some port. The server IP is fully hidden, you can even close the Public IP port. You can access that server via control panel’s console for SSH works. What we have seen, it never increases the total cost hugely. Less costly is one server with more RAM, More costly is multiple servers. We have not noticed much difference in performance for WordPress between Cloud Database and using a dedicated Cloud Server for database. WordPress can be popular but it actually increases the cost to the maximum possible. Reduce Cache to Reduce Operational Cost on Cloud Server. Do not run Memcached (mem cache daemon) on one server configuration. MySQL Database will throw bizarre errors, you’ll need to manually reboot.

Nothing can beat HTML websites in this World, in modern form Jekyll, Octopress etc. For the sake of hosting on Rackspace Cloud Files, read Pointing Naked Domains to CNAME.

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Cite this article as: Abhishek Ghosh, "Rackspace Cloud Hosting Cost and Tips for Reduced Bill," in The Customize Windows, May 22, 2014, February 5, 2023, https://thecustomizewindows.com/2014/05/rackspace-cloud-hosting-cost-and-tips-for-reduced-bill/.

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