Rackspace Technology Reviews 

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TrustScore 1 out of 5

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Evaluating 45 reviews, most reviewers were let down by their experience overall. Longtime users frequently complained about massive, unexpected price hikes that drastically increased their monthly costs without providing any noticeable improvements to the aging platform. Some reviewers were not happy with the complicated cancellation policies, noting that they were forced to pay extra fees and unwanted charges even after ending their subscriptions. People also mentioned facing extremely long wait times on the phone and receiving completely unhelpful customer service when attempting to resolve technical problems with their email accounts. Consumers felt that the company no longer values loyal clients, leading many to migrate their services elsewhere.

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Service

Customers had negative experiences with service, noting that the quality has dropped significantly in recent... See more

Price

Reviewers mention negative feedback about price, consistently reporting staggering cost increases of 300% to... See more

Customer service

Customers consistently note negative experiences with customer service, reporting hours spent on the phone... See more

Payment

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Cancellation

Users describe negative interactions with cancellation processes, reporting widespread frustration and... See more

Reviews shaping this summary

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Migrated our services to microsoft 365 - 18 months ago but still charged me for two licenses they couldn’t verify that existed for those 18 months and the account manager practically said not my f’ing... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Just echoing the same experience as the rest of the reviewers. They were great 6 years ago, then they offshored to Indian and the support now is shockingly abysmal. I swear I've lost a decade of... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Lousy email service. Clumsy interface. Service outages. Constant phishing referencing RackSpace. AND they just raised the minimum cost for one mail box from $12 per month to $36. Unbelievable.... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Forget about using this company anymore. Before aws and Azure they were good (at best) but now they are also rans. They are a black and white TV in an Ultra HD world. Terrible support, hopeless interf... See more


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  1. Cloud Computing Service

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Rackspace Technology is a leading end-to-end, hybrid and AI solutions company. We can design, build, and operate our customers' cloud environments across all major technology platforms, irrespective of technology stack or deployment model. We partner with our customers at every stage of their cloud journey, enabling them to modernize applications, build new products, and adopt innovative technologies.


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  • 19122 U.S. Hwy 281 N Ste 128, 78258, San Antonio, United States

  • rackspace.com

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Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Double Charges; High Staff Turnover

We were paying for the same service with Datapipe. Then Rackspace bought Datapipe, took 5 months to switch us over and double-billed us for those five months! Ex: We paid Datapipe for monitoring from Jan-May, it took Rackspace 5 months to move our account over to their systems, and then in May they sent us a surprise arrears bill for Rackspace service during Jan-May.

We've fought for months to get this amount erased, and it's been frustrating to say the least. There is high staff turnover so your "contact" suddenly isn't there anymore. There is a lot of chasing down the right people, multiple times, only to be treated apathetically. Several-year user of Datapipe/Rackspace looking for alternatives now.

July 17, 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

We cannot rely on them anymore.

I have used Rackspace for 12 years for high profile hosting ad high-availibility data environments and I have always had a great relationship with the UK and global account team and board management team. Since a few years we only get overseas (from India) low quality support and install delivery over more then 6 months (expected in two weeks).
We cannot rely on them anymore.

July 7, 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

I have used Rackspace for 15 years for…

I have used Rackspace for 15 years for many high profile brands hosting environments and I have always had a great relationship with the UK and global account team and board management team. Since 2022 I do not know what has happened but we can only get overseas support and we have an issues regarding confirming contracts and billing. they seem to have only one interest and that is to manipulate the truth to extract as much money as they can and have no interest in long term customers anymore They will lose me as a long term customer and the $millions of dollars I bring into them for the sake of trying to overcharge us by £15k. The communication skills are very poor and comes accross as junior staff untrained and damaging the little reputation they cling on to. Something bad is happening over at Rackspace !!

June 29, 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

This company sucks

This company sucks - their email sucks - we have it at our business and it is completely useless. People email me all the time and I cant even send a reply to them because the postmaster doesnt recognize their address ?? How stupid is this? I had to set up a gmail account just so I could send clients a reply.

June 13, 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

They dont cancel when you ask them to

I cancelled my POP3 account on 11/14/2022. They were billing two line items on the invoice. Pop mailboxes and extra storage on those mailboxes. They had me send an email to verify that I wanted to cancel. One item was canceled but the other extra storage was not cancelled. They continued to bill despite me sending message and calling. the accounting department would not return my call. They finally closed the account for failure to pay and sent the balance to collections. They told me today that they could not fix the issue.

June 1, 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Constant issues with outages and roadblocks to canceling account

Constant issues with outages and poor support left us with no option but to set up new hosting services through AWS. Now we can neither delete the servers we have at Rackspace nor cancel our account without having to call in to their support line.

These are basic controls that should be provided at the account admin level; however, Rackspace does not provide this to their customers. They'd rather, present inconveniences and roadblocks to make it difficult to stop using their services thereby allowing them to keep billing you for as long as possible.

In addition, once you call in it takes them 3 business days to cancel your account.

May 16, 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

OK support previously - now atrocious

I've used Rackspace for years now - for Exchange email and Office 365 - and they've been fairly dependable. Nothing amazing but considering how user-unfriendly Microsoft products are, they've been a helpful man-in-the-middle giving extra support.

Lately however the quality has gone off a cliff. I spent 30 minutes yesterday just trying to get a simple answer around DNS settings. I repeatedly had to tell the agent to give me the simple information. He kept talking around it, telling me I had to update DNS when I'd already told him this and just needed settings. It was insane.

Then they told me that the domain alias had been set up wrong - but it had been set up by THEM and they'd confirmed they had done it.

Today I started a new query with 'the email XatY is still not working, please assist'. Their response was 'is the email address XatY working for you?' Literally the most insane response that shows they're not even capable of reading the most simple message.

I can't deal with this complete waste of my time and am leaving for another provider after 8 years+

May 11, 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Excellent product

Although I’ve never needed to contact customer service, the product is top notch. The email interface is clean and straight forward. The admin interface is robust without being bloated or confusing. The price for the services I’m receiving is excellent.

May 10, 2023
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Customer service is a joke

Customer service is a joke. They deleted a SharePoint site they hosted for our company. Now 3 weeks later dealing with their tech support, and they are just ignoring my help desk tickets. I would be shocked if they were still in business next year.

April 21, 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 4 out of 5 stars

You do VERY well

You do VERY well. We continue to be pleased with your service.
One small issue: somehow somebody has your customer list. I get emails that claim to be from you that ask me to volunteer information -- it is clearly fraud. I do send these on to you -- and now I've added your "abuse" address to my files so I can quickly pass it on to you.

April 20, 2023

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