Rackspace
Fully managed bare metal hosting from a 25+ year hosting veteran, built around custom-quoted, fully dedicated infrastructure across 40+ data centers, with 'Fanatical Support' service and vendor partnerships spanning Dell, HPE, NetApp, and Cisco.
Pricing Plans
| Plan | Price/mo | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Managed Infrastructure | — | Rackspace handles hardware, network, and OS-level operations; no published self-serve pricing, quote-based per configuration |
| Managed Operations | — | Adds application-layer management and deeper operational involvement; quote-based, typically a higher support tier on top of infrastructure costs |
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Rackspace has been in the hosting business for over 25 years, and its current bare metal offering reflects that: rather than a menu of fixed self-serve plans, servers are custom-configured by Rackspace’s private cloud engineers to match a customer’s specific compute, storage, networking, OS, RAID, and database requirements, with pricing quoted per deployment rather than published on a pricing page.
No Self-Serve Pricing
This is a meaningful departure from most other providers in this collection. Rackspace does not list fixed monthly prices for bare metal configurations; engaging requires a consultation with a Rackspace sales team, and pricing depends heavily on hardware vendor, configuration, data center, and support tier selected. This makes Rackspace a poor fit for anyone wanting to spin up a server in minutes at a known price, and a reasonable fit for organizations that want a dedicated account team designing infrastructure around a specific workload.
Vendor Partnerships and Hardware
Rather than running a single proprietary hardware line, Rackspace sources bare metal infrastructure through partnerships with Dell Technologies, HPE, NetApp, Pure Storage, and Cisco, among others, letting customers choose hardware vendors and RAID/storage configurations that match existing enterprise procurement relationships.
Managed Support Tiers
Rackspace offers two primary support tiers on top of infrastructure: Managed Infrastructure, covering hardware, network, and OS-level operations, and Managed Operations, which extends further into application-layer management. Both are backed by the company’s long-standing “Fanatical Experience” support branding and operate across a footprint of 40+ data centers worldwide, with direct interconnects into AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure for hybrid deployments.
Verdict
Rackspace bare metal is not a fit for hobbyists or small teams comparing hourly or monthly rates against providers like Hetzner or OVHcloud, it’s built for enterprises that want a dedicated account team, vendor flexibility, and a consultative buying process, and are willing to trade self-serve simplicity and price transparency for that level of hand-holding.