Matthew Hill founded Liquidweb in the year 1998 in Holt, Michigan. Starting from shared hosting and VPS hosting, this hosting service providers also provide managed server hosting, dedicated hosting, smart servers and numerous other hosting products and services. With data centers in Lancing and Phoenix, this hosting company is looking for expansion in other regions of the United States as well.
Rackspace is a hosting service provider which offers cloud hosting solutions to its customers. This hosting service provider was founded in 1998 in San Antonio, Texas by Richard Yoo, Dirk Elmendorf, Patrick Condon and Morris Miller. With total assets of nearly one and a half billion this cloud hosting service provider is moving forward with their innovative services.
| Rackspace | Liquidweb | |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters | San Antonio, Texas | Lansing, Michigan |
| Data Centers | Chicago, Dallas, London, Hong Kong, Sydney and Northern Virginia | Lansing, Michigan and Phoenix, Arizona |
| Founded | 1998 | 1997 |
| Bandwidth | Limited | Limited |
| Diskspace | Limited | Limited |
| Hosted Domains | Data not available | 40,000+ |
| Starting costs/Available Plans | Cloud Hosting Solutions Raw Infrastructure + Manged Infrastructure: General1-1: $23.36+$3.65/mo General1-2: $46.72+$7.30/mo General1-4: $93.44+$14.60/mo General1-8: $186.88+$29.20/mo | Standard at $14.95/mo Webmaster at $19.95/mo Professional at $24.95/mo Semi-dedicated at $40.00/mo |
| Safe Harbour certified | Yes | Yes |
| Bitcoin payments | Yes | No, alternative altCoin payments |
| PCI Compliant | Yes | No |
| Green Hosting | Yes | No |
| HIPAA Compliant | Yes | Yes |
| Adult Content Allowed | No | No |
| Support Options | 24/7 Live chat, Phone and Ticket creation | 24/7 Live chat, Phone and Ticket creation |
| FTP | Yes | Yes |
| Shared Hosting | N.A. | Standard at $14.95/mo Webmaster at $19.95/mo Professional at $24.95/mo Semi-dedicated at $40.00/mo |
| VPS Hosting | Cloud Hosting Solutions Raw Infrastructure + Manged Infrastructure: General1-1: $23.36+$3.65/mo General1-2: $46.72+$7.30/mo General1-4: $93.44+$14.60/mo General1-8: $186.88+$29.20/mo | Starting at $50.00/mo and going as high as $2500.00/mo depending on configuration |
| Dedicated Hosting | Staring at $725/month | Packages for both Windows and Linux starting at $179.00/mo and going till $799.00/mo depending on configuration |
| CDN Hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Website Builder | Yes | Yes |
| SSH | Yes | Yes |
| SMTP | Yes | Yes |
| Auto Responders | Yes | Yes |
| Custom Error Pages | Yes | Yes |
| POP3 Accounts | Yes | Yes |
| Web Mail | Yes | Yes |
| Referrer Logs | Yes | Yes |
| Error Logs | Yes | Yes |
| Money Back Guarantee | Depends on infrastructure downtime 5% of monthly fee for every 30 minutes of downtime | 30 day money back only for Shared Hosting packages |
Both Rackspace and liquidweb are high end hosting providers offering premium packages, high end server and hosting resources to their customers. Both companies offer high level of security & support on all their plans.
In general, Liquidweb offers more flexibility in terms of normal hosting packages for all its hosting solutions. Rackspace however is oriented more towards high end services and offer premium services at premium costs. Hence the service cost of Rackspace is quite expensive in comparison to that of Liquidweb. For those customers looking value for money, it would be a wise choice to opt for Liquidweb than Rackspace for their hosting needs.