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Rackspace Hosting is the world’s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry. The San Antonio-based company provides Fanatical Support® to its customers, across a portfolio of IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing. For more information, visit www.rackspace.com.
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Rackspace Managed Hosting
Company description:
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Provides hosted exchange and secure web-based email hosting services with anti-spam and virus protection for small business.
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Publicly Traded
Revenue:
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$500M - 1B ($750,000,000 estimated) Ranked 1 at HostMonk
Employees:
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1K - 10K (5000 estimated) Ranked 1 at HostMonk
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RAX at NYSE
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718 contacts at Jigsaw
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from the company's web site: Fanatical Support® has made Rackspace the world's leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry. We deliver enterprise-level hosting services to businesses of all sizes and kinds around the world. We got started in 1998 and since have grown to serve more than 130,000 customers, including over 110,000 cloud computing customers. Rackspace integrates the industry's best technologies for each customer's specific need and delivers it as a service via the company's commitment to Fanatical Support. Our core products include Managed Hosting, Cloud Hosting and Email & Apps. There are currently over 3,200 Rackers around the world serving our customers.

Site Info:
Online since:
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August, 1998 Ranked 20 at HostMonk
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267,612 (Compete.com) Ranked 9 at HostMonk
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1.668 Seconds, 58% of the sites are faster Ranked 42 at HostMonk
Site categories:
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Messaging/E-mail, Web Design and Development/Hosting
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Rackspace (14982 followers)
"Fanatical Support™. Have questions? Need help? E-mail twitter@rackspace.com or call us toll-free or internationally: http://bit.ly/D0Zcv"
Ranked 6 at HostMonk
Address:
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112 E Pecan, San Antonio, TX 78205, US
112 E Pecan, San Antonio, TX 78205, US
Phone:
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+1 210 892 4000
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+1 210 892 4329
Official email:
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hostmaster@rackspace.com
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support@rackspace.com
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Blog posts
Recent posts from rackspace blog:
Starting Up (Is Hard To Do): Juggling Life, Work And A Startup
May 11, 2012
Since February, I have enjoyed writing about my experiences of attempting to startup a business while working a day job. This past month, however, has been a bear for me. In the Rackspace office, our team has been going full tilt, producing content for our channels and campaigns. We have ramped up content production not...
Xeround Cloud Database Now Available On Rackspace UK
May 10, 2012
This is a guest post written and contributed by Avigail Ofer, director of marketing at Xeround, a Rackspace Cloud Tools Partner. Xeround is an elastic, always-on database-as-a-service for MySQL applications. Xeround Cloud Database, the zero-management database-as-a-service for MySQL applications, is now available in Rackspace’s UK datacenter, enabling cloud users running their apps in Rackspace’s UK datacenter to create...
Lurking In The Shadows: Uncovering The Hidden Benefits Of Shadow IT
May 10, 2012
There is no denying that Shadow IT is happening in businesses, whether it's end users buying cloud instances or storage capacity on their credit cards. It's up to IT and decision makers to ensure that Shadow IT is properly executed to avoid issues.
Is Your Business’ Email Sending The Wrong Message?
May 10, 2012
Find out how using free, consumer-level email services can send the wrong message to recipients and impact the performance and productivity of your businesses.
Rackspace Startup Program Spotlight On Distil: Protecting Your Content Online
May 10, 2012
Distil, a member of the Rackspace Startup Program, offers content protection to stop third parties from maliciously leveraging content.
Tools Of Change For Designers: Activating
May 10, 2012
In this series of posts on tools of change for designers, Harry Max, Rackspace VP of Experience Design, discusses the fourth tool - Activating.
Five Reasons SharePoint Is Better in the Cloud
May 10, 2012
Some organizations are still struggling with running SharePoint onsite when there are some very compelling reasons why SharePoint in the cloud makes better sense.
Here’s What’s In Store For SharePoint911 At Rackspace
May 10, 2012
It's been a couple of months since SharePoint911 joined Rackspace, and we're off to a running start. Here's what you can expect from the SharePoint911 team going forward now that we've joined the Rackspace family.
San Francisco Rackers Celebrate Bike To Work Day
May 10, 2012
A number of Rackers based in Rackspace's San Francisco office will participate in Bike To Work Day, an event that recognizes and awards bike-friendly businesses in the city.
Five Functions Of Effective Social Marketing Strategy
May 09, 2012
Social media is becoming a larger part of how people communicate with each other and brands and companies. It is a disruptive mode of communication and social marketers need to recognize this and use it to their advantage. There are five distinct functions of social media that help companies effectively and efficiently reach their consumers.
AngelPad: Building Great Startups For Spring 2012 Demo Day!
May 09, 2012
AngelPad is a mentorship program founded by Thomas Korte with a team of ex-Google employees to help technology startups build better products, attract seed funding and grow more successful businesses. AngelPad provides founders with funding, mentorship and the chance to work alongside other great founders at the AngelPad office in San Francisco. “AngelPad is in...
Importance Of Caching Your WordPress Site
May 09, 2012
Racker and WordPress guru Matt Martz talks about the importance of caching your WordPress site as well as some plugins that can help you do this.
Forbes: Rackspace Is One Of The Fastest Growing Tech Companies
May 09, 2012
Rackspace has been ranked among the 25 fastest growing technology companies, according to the just-released Forbes Fast Tech 25. To create the list, Forbes combs more than 5,000 publicly traded technology companies, seeking profitable companies with a minimum revenue of $150 million and a minimum market value of $500 million. From there, Forbes looks for...
node-elementtree – Node.js Library To Build And Parse XML Documents
May 09, 2012
Tomaz Muraus is part of the Cloud Monitoring team that built and open sourced node-elementtree, a Node.js Library To Build And Parse XML Documents.
Taking The Zappos Insights Tour
May 08, 2012
Here at Rackspace, we pride ourselves on our unique culture. We strive to create an environment where Rackers volunteer their best and exceed customer expectations through Fanatical Support, and we do so in a way that few companies do. And we hold in high esteem other companies that maintain a unique culture and focus on...
Cloud Founders: Developers Don’t Want To Sys Admin The Server
May 08, 2012
The Rackspace Cloud founders talk about the early days of Cloud Sites and the needs that developers and designers have for their code and designs.
The Importance Of Monitoring, Even In A Managed Cloud Environment
May 08, 2012
This is a guest blog post written and contributed by Mike Raab, vice president of business development for CopperEgg, a Rackspace Cloud Tools partner and maker of RevealCloud, a SaaS-based cloud and server monitoring offering. As a Rackspace partner, CopperEgg works with companies every day that are venturing into the cloud for any number of...
Moving To The Cloud: Should You Rent or Buy?
May 08, 2012
Rackspace architect and Cloud Builder Jacob Walcik compares the differences between consuming the public and private cloud to that of renting an apartment versus owning a home.
Cloud Evangelism From Unexpected Quarters, And The Macro-Economic Impacts Of Cloud
May 08, 2012
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SharePoint Tuesdays: Stop! Collaborate And Listen
May 04, 2012
Dig deeper into SharePoint every week with SharePoint Tuesdays, a series of weekly webinars that focus on a variety of SharePoint topics.
Information sources: Alexa Jigsaw Compete.com