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China bans online ‘gold farming’ (CNET) (news.cnet.com) - June 29, 2009
The practice of trading virtual goods for real currency generates big money for Chinese gold-farmers. A government ban won’t dissuade the practice from continuing.

Yes, Rackspace Is Down And So Are Many Of Your Favorite Sites (TechCrunch) (techcrunch.com) - June 29, 2009
Last week, Michael Jackson’s death caused sites to fail left and right. Today, it’s a very different problem. The hosting service Rackspace has been completely down for the past 30 minutes or so. Don’…

Barnes & Noble opens new chapter with iPhone app (CNET) (news.cnet.com) - June 29, 2009
The B&N Bookstore app lets you browse books from a photo, read about new releases, and watch videos of author interviews.

Rackspace suffers outage (CNET) (news.cnet.com) - June 29, 2009
The Dallas data center of the Web hosting company is having issues, and many sites offline. Details of the outage are still scanty.

Hot iPhone 3GS Is Getting Too Hot, Reports Say (Mobile Tech Today) (mobile-tech-today.com) - June 29, 2009
News reports have cited overheating problems with the iPhone 3GS, but are the reports justified? Or is Apple’s latest device headed for a major recall? Le Journal du Geek, a French technology Web site…

Enterprise-Based Applications in the Cloud Are Next (Linux) (linux.sys-con.com) - June 29, 2009
One thing is pretty clear to me from an investment perspective. I am not going to invest in the next hot cloud computing infrastructure service that will compete against Amazon, Rackspace, Microsoft,…

Rackspace installs cloud services for UK customers (Computer Weekly) (computerweekly.com) - June 29, 2009
Rackspace is installing a cloud computing capability on its UK servers to provide British customers…

Peer 1 and Rackspace offer UK customers global clouds (VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News) (uk.news.yahoo.com) - June 26, 2009
A range of new cloud services will be made available to UK-based IT departments as US providers Peer 1 and Rackspace expand their services overseas.

Discount Web Hosting Review & News » Rackspace suffers outage (CNET) (discount-web-hosting-review.com) - June 29, 2009
Rackspace suffers outage (CNET). June 29th, 2009. The Dallas data center of the Web hosting company is having issues, and many sites offline. Details of the outage are still scanty. Read more from the…

Rackspace suffers outage | Northloop Neighborhoods (northloop.14gram.com) - June 29, 2009
Rackspace suffers outage. Related. Barnes & Noble opens new chapter with… Eigth Firefox extensions for the Twitter… CNET News Daily Podcast: Firefox 3.5… Windows 7 preorder a hit–on Amazon · Wi…

Dallas data center update | The Official Rackspace Blog (rackspace.com) - June 29, 2009
Sam Hamilton: As someone who uses both Rackspace for both personal and company hosting I am really excited that you… Lew Moorman: Adrian, thanks for the feedback. Sorry we did not get you the info y…

Outage for Rackspace Customers « Data Center Knowledge (datacenterknowledge.com) - June 29, 2009
Many sites hosted at Rackspace Hosting were offline for about 45 minutes this afternoon when the company’s data center in Grapevine, Texas lost power.

Yes, Rackspace Is Down And So Are Many Of Your Favorite Sites (techcrunch.com) - June 29, 2009
Last week, Michael Jackson’s death caused sites to fail left and right. Today, it’s a very different problem. The hosting service Rackspace has …

Yes, Rackspace Is Down And So Are Many Of Your Favorite Sites … (dintz.com) - June 29, 2009
Last week, Michael Jackson’s death caused sites to fail left and right. Today, it’s a very different problem. The hosting service Rackspace has been completely down for the past 30 minutes or so. Don’…

Ready to Cloud?: News — Rackspace big hosting provider is Down (blog.readytocloud.com) - June 29, 2009
Even though in theory Downtime can and will happen to all (cloud or traditional providers), the big and famous data center, Rackspace has gone down twice in the last 2 weeks. Rackspace provides the Fa…

I’m thinking about using Amazon, IBM, or Rackspace… (blogs.gartner.com) - June 29, 2009
This leads to some interesting phenomenons, like the inquiries where the client begins with, “I’m considering using Amazon, IBM, or Rackspace…†That’s the result of customers thinking about the trade-…

thanks @Rackspace, we are back up!! now out to make up for the time lost… - June 29, 2009

Don’t let a future Rackspace or any other hosting provider outage affect your business – Free consultation – http://bit.ly/about-quail - June 29, 2009

READING: Yes, Rackspace Is Down And So Are Many Of Your Favorite Sites: Last week, Michael Jackson’s dea.. http://tinyurl.com/ncse27 - June 29, 2009

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Our hosting company, Rackspace, one of the world’s largest, just had about an hour of downtime. We should be back up now, tho. (via @ilaugh) - June 29, 2009

@MikeMcDerment Rackspace lost me when they asked me “what is ‘mongrel’ and does it work with the Cisco 4xxx?” Like I should know, or care. - June 29, 2009

Ouch. Our hosting company, Rackspace, one of the world’s largest, just had about an hour of downtime. We should be back up now, though. - June 29, 2009

RT: @eventbrite Update from RackSpace, for those still experiencing interruption — http://www.rackspace.com/blog/?p=334 - June 29, 2009

Yes, Rackspace Is Down And So Are Many Of Your Favorite Site - June 29, 2009
The hosting service Rackspace has been completely down for about an hour.

Rackspace big hosting provider is Down - June 29, 2009
The Rackspace data center located in Dallas is down since 3:25 pm today.

Rackspace installs cloud services for UK customers - June 29, 2009
Rackspace is installing a cloud computing capability on its UK servers to provide British customers…..

techZING! 7 – Learn How To Code In Only 10,000 Hours - June 28, 2009
Michael Jackson & Twitter, Information Overload, Multitasking, Master Anything in 10k Hours, Learning Programming, Writing Open Source Libraries, codepad.org, Rackspace Cloud, Auto Scaling, Semantical…

Who has the most servers? - May 15, 2009
There was a milestone buried deep within the earnings tables in this week’s first quarter results from Rackspace: the San Antonio company has become one of a select number of companies that have more…

Rackspace Ugly Holiday Sweater Contest - January 20, 2009
I’m not convinced it’s such party at the Rackspace office. More like the kitchen at the party perhaps.

Rackspace Acquires JungleDisk, Slicehost To Take On Amazon - October 22, 2008
Web hosting provider Rackspace has acquired JungleDisk, an online backup service, and Virtual Machine provider Slicehost in a deal designed to help bolster its offerings against top competitor Amazon…

Truck driver in Texas kills all the websites you really use - November 12, 2007
Remember the power mishap in July that brought down 365 Main, the San Francisco datacenter? A similar incident took place today at Rackspace, a Dallas, Texas Web host which serves several local compan…

Yes, Rackspace Is Down And So Are Many Of Your Favorite Sites (techcrunch.com) - June 29, 2009

Rackspace – Rackspace suffers outage | goGlider.com (goglider.com) - June 29, 2009

Rackspace suffers outage | Webware – CNET (news.cnet.com) - June 29, 2009

The Rackspace Cloud System Status (status.rackspacecloud.com) - June 29, 2009

Yes, Rackspace Is Down And So Are Many Of Your Favorite Sites (techcrunch.com) - June 29, 2009

Rackspace outage and info – Robert Scoble – FriendFeed (friendfeed.com) - June 29, 2009

Building43 – A new era for Rackspace and the internet | The Official Rackspace Blog (rackspace.com) - June 29, 2009

Exploring the 2010 Web (scobleizer.com) - June 29, 2009

Chuck LeDuc Díaz: @MikeMcDerment Rackspace lost me when they asked me “what is ‘mongrel’ and does it work with the Cisco 4xxx?” Like I should know, or care. (twitter.com) - June 29, 2009
Chuck LeDuc Díaz @MikeMcDerment Rackspace lost me when they asked me “what is ‘mongrel’ and does it work with the Cisco 4xxx?” Like I should know, or care. 4 minutes ago from Twitter – Comment – Like…

Vegas Bill: RT: @eventbrite Update from RackSpace, for those still experiencing interruption — http://www.rackspace.com/blog/?p=334 (twitter.com) - June 29, 2009
Vegas Bill RT: @eventbrite Update from RackSpace, for those still experiencing interruption — http://www.rackspace.com/blog… 6 minutes ago from Twitter – Comment – Like

Kirk R. Arner: Yes, Rackspace Is Down And So Are Many Of Your Favorite Sites (feedproxy.google.com) - June 29, 2009
Kirk R. Arner Yes, Rackspace Is Down And So Are Many Of Your Favorite Sites – http://www.techcrunch.com/2009… 15 minutes ago from Google Reader – Comment – Like

Jeff Douglass: Rackspace outage and info (scobleizer.com) - June 29, 2009
Jeff Douglass Rackspace outage and info – http://scobleizer.com/2009… 16 minutes ago from Google Reader – Comment – Like

Rich: Rackspace outage and info (scobleizer.com) - June 29, 2009
Rich Rackspace outage and info – http://scobleizer.com/2009… 17 minutes ago from Google Reader – Comment – Like

Charlotte-Anne: RT @rackspace: @jtimberlake – Thanks for the humming – please keep it up (it isn’t hurting!) (twitter.com) - June 29, 2009
Charlotte-Anne RT @rackspace: @jtimberlake – Thanks for the humming – please keep it up (it isn’t hurting!) 21 minutes ago from Twitter – Comment – Like

rt @esayegh Apology to Rackspace Cloud customers for interruption in DFW Data Center today. Let us know if there is anything we can do for u (twitter.com) - June 29, 2009
Rackspace rt @esayegh Apology to Rackspace Cloud customers for interruption in DFW Data Center today. Let us know if there is anything we can do for u 21 minutes ago from Twitter – Comment – Like

OriginalSignal: Yes, Rackspace Is Down And So Are Many Of Your Favorite Sites http://tinyurl.com/lta9vz (twitter.com) - June 29, 2009
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[News] Peer 1 and Rackspace: GNU/Linux Only (help.lockergnome.com) - June 27, 2009
MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA1 Peer 1 and Rackspace offer UK customers global clouds ,—-[....co.uk/v3/news/2244893/peer-rackspace-offer-uk Related: Ballmer Still Searching... MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Pe…

Re: anyone use Mosso.com by Rackspace new hostcloud technology? (warriorforum.com) - June 27, 2009
Well, from what I know, Mosso has now become the RackSpace Cloud . RackSpace has finally done the new branding. Found some reviews of RackSpace Cloud hosting and a discount coupon if you were going to…

$25 Discount of RackSpace Cloud Coupon Promo Code: REF-YY (namepros.com) - June 27, 2009
$25 Discount of RackSpace Cloud Coupon Promo Code: REF-YY RackSpace Cloud is recently launched to be the cloud hosting division of RackSpace, the global leader of premium web site hosting. Use RackSpa…

$25 Discount of RackSpace Cloud Coupon Promo Code: REF-YY (namepros.com) - June 27, 2009
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Perl on Rackspace Server (community.actinic.com) - June 26, 2009
and have been attempting to upload a new site to a dedicated Rackspace server all week. The server specs are as follows: SMB1 Tower...they are convinced that the problem lies with the Perl setup th…

Denim Group Teams with Rackspace Hosting (hostdiscussion.com) - June 24, 2009
and Consulting Services Partner Agreement with Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX), the leader ...will provide application security services for Rackspace and its clients. A related ...,” said John Eng…

CUSTOMER SUCCESS: Rackspace Drives State-of-the-Art IT Hosting Services, (investorshub.advfn.com) - June 23, 2009
value proposition that IT hosting provider Rackspace promises to thousands of customers worldwide.... higher levels of automation.†BMC provides Rackspace with an integrated environment that helps…

LegalCloud and Rackspace to Deliver Hosting Solutions (forums.webhostdir.com) - June 05, 2009
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Rackspace US, Inc. (dba Rackspace) is an IT hosting company based in San Antonio, Texas. The company also has offices in the United Kingdom and The Netherlands[1] and data centers operating in Texas, Virginia, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong in late 2008. Email and Apps division of Rackspace operates in Blacksburg, VA.

Rackspace’s support ideology – termed Fanatical Support – and team structures involve all “Rackers” (employees).

In 1996, Richard Yoo started a small ISP out of his garage apartment called Cymitar Network Systems in San Antonio, Texas. Quickly, this company began to provide application development work, in addition to basic internet access and web hosting. In 1997, Yoo brought on Dirk Elmendorf and the company formally began to develop internet applications as its primary business and a new company was formed called Cymitar Technology Group. As Cymitar Technology Group grew, Patrick Condon was recruited from California and joined the team in 1998. Coincidentally, all three were students at one time at Trinity University in San Antonio.

Although they began as application developers for end-users, they found that most companies didn’t know how to host their applications, or didn’t want to be involved in the hosting. They wanted to keep their focus on the application development – not the hosting – but they were unable find an opportunity to outsource the hosting work. Eventually, the three men realized that it would be better to make a product out of the hosting need, and launch it as a company. Rackspace was created and launched in October 1998 with Richard Yoo as its CEO. The beginnings of Rackspace’s Fanatical Support started once Rackspace realized that no company at the time could fulfill their unique requirements. Most companies focused on the technology end of hosting, but much less on service and support. [2] On March 28, 2000, Rackspace received funding through Sequoia Capital. [3]

In January 2008, Rackspace went through a rebranding and changed from “Rackspace Managed Hosting” to simply “Rackspace”. The company’s tagline became “Experience Fanatical Support” rather than the older “Managed Servers Backed By Fanatical Support”. The new logo and service marks keep the same colors as the original logo, but the overall design changed drastically.