Rackspace

Rackspace Information

Official Site: Rackspace
Wikipedia: Rackspace
Rackspace Careers
MyRackspace: Customer Portal
YouTube: Rackspace on Fox News (Time 2:48)

Rackspace Products and Services

Rackspace News

Google News: Rackspace
Information Week: Rackspace Says 'Yes' to Virtualization (January 22, 2008)
ZDNET: Rackspace’s Really Bad 36 Hours: the Internet Is Fragile (November 13, 2007)
MySA.com: Eyeing more Rackspace (April 25, 2007)

Rackspace Information, Reviews and Blogs

Google Blog Search: Rackspace
Valleywag: 37Signals Blames Rackspace for Outage (January 18, 2008)
Valleywag: Truck Driver in Texas Kills All the Websites You Really Use (November 12, 2007)
GigaOM: RackSpace Outage Hits Home (November 12, 2007)
NCAHost.net: Rackspace Review

Rackspace Photo and Video

Google Image Search: Rackspace
Flickr: Rackspace Photos
Google Video: Rackspace

Rackspace Competitors

History

Rackspace started in 1996 as a small ISP called Cymitar Network Systems. The company was started in the garage of co-founder Richard Yoo. Co-founders Dirk Elmendorf and Patrick Condon later joined to help expand the business.

Downtime

On November 12, 2007, a truck driver in Dallas, Texas drove into a power transformer. This caused the transformer to explode, as a result power was temporally cut to the area. Rackspace's Dallas data center experienced outages due to loss of power. Popular websites like 37signals remained off line during this outage.

Rackspace Services

Hosting: Web hosting services for small to large businesses.

Virtualization: VPS hosting solutions for consolidation of dedicated server resources.

Storage and Backup: Enterprise class solutions for the storage and backup of data.