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{{CompanyInfo|
{{CompanyInfo|
| logo = RackSpaceLogo.JPG
| logo = RackSpaceLogo.JPG
| type =
| type = Private
| industry =
| industry = Hosting
| founded =
| founded = 1998
| founders =
| founders = [[Richard Yoo]]
| ownership =
| ownership =
| headquarters =
| headquarters = 5000 Walzem Road<br>
| country =
San Antonio, TX 78218
| country = USA
| businesses =
| businesses =
| products =
| products =
| employees =
| employees = More than 1500
| revenue =
| revenue = $224 million (2006)<br>
$628.99 million (2009)
| website = [http://www.rackspace.com/index.php Rackspace]
| website = [http://www.rackspace.com/index.php Rackspace]
| blog =
| blog =
| facebook =
| facebook = [http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rackspace-Managed-Hosting/114850841864186 Rackspace Managed Hosting]
| linkedin =
| linkedin = [http://www.linkedin.com/title/sales/at-rackspace-managed-hosting Rackspace Managed Hosting]
| twitter =
| twitter =
| keypeople =
| keypeople = [[Grahm Weston]], Chairman<br>
[[John Eitel]],Director of Enterprise Sales<br>
[[Christine White]],Advanced Solutions Consultant<br>
[[Ryan Ashby]],Strategic Channel Executive<br>
[[George J. Still, Jr.]], Board of Directors
}}
}}
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Rackspace is a hosting company.
'''Rackspace''' is a hosting company providing solutions to business environments. The company offers three basic hosting packages named managed hosting for dedicated servers, managed colocation which provides do-it-yourself environment and managed private cloud which offers protections like Rackspace firewall.<ref>[http://www.rackspace.co.uk/managed-hosting/hosting-solutions/ rackspace]</ref> Besides this they have packages for email hosting, cloud hosting and hybrid hosting.<ref>[http://www.rackspace.co.uk/rackspace-home/ rackspace]</ref> The company provides worldwide services with offices in Australia, the United Kingdom, The Netherlands and Hong Kong, and data centers operating in Texas, Illinois, Virginia, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong in 2008.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rackspace wikipedia]</ref>
Two levels of hosting support are provided, managed with limited support and intensive with additional consultation through the company.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rackspace wikipedia]</ref>
==History==
[[Richard Yoo]], [[Dirk Elmendorf]] and [[Patrick Condon]] considering the needs of hosting solutions for users, started Rackspace in back in 1998. The company got fame in very short time and received funding from [[Norwest Venture Partners]] and [[Sequoia Capital]] in 2000.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rackspace wikipedia]</ref> today the company has more than 70,000 customers around the globe.<ref>[http://www.hostseek.com/listing/rackspace_managed_hosting.html hostseek]</ref>
==Certifications==
Rackspace has following certifications:
* Microsoft Gold-Certified Hosting Partner.
* Microsoft Hosting Partner of the Year — 2003, 2005, 2007.
* Strategic Dell Hosting Partner for Corporate Business Accounts (CBG).
* Red Hat Advanced Hosting Partner.
* MySQL Certified Hosting Partner.
<ref>[http://www.hostseek.com/listing/rackspace_managed_hosting.html hostseek]</ref>
==References==
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