Rackspace is described as 'US, Inc. (NYSE: RAX) is an IT hosting company based in San Antonio, Texas. The company also has offices in Australia, the United Kingdom and The Netherlands[2] and data centers operating in Texas, Illinois, Virginia, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong in late 2008' and is a Web Hosting service in the online services category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Rackspace, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Windows, Self-Hosted and SaaS apps. The best Rackspace alternative is DigitalOcean. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try OpenStack or HelioHost. Other great sites and apps similar to Rackspace are Linode, Microsoft Azure, Hetzner and Laravel Cloud.