Yesterday I posted about an email I received from Rackspace regarding their $600 referral promotion. Surprisingly alynfamily.com had a real spike in traffic as a result. I guess they spend more time keeping up with their brand than they do their customers? Did this really warrant 21 visits? (more…)
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Rackspace Keeping Tabs?
Friday, February 22nd, 2008Rackspace - Ha!
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Rackspace, the less than fantastic, albeit fanatical, web hosting provider is trying to buy support. They have had an incredibly bad last few months. Recently a major datacenter outage in November took many customers offline. Additionally, very public technology failures for sites like 37signals and Tumblr are causing a mass exodus. I’ve never hosted anything there myself, but nishnash.com was hosted there while I worked on it and so I still have an account linked to their customer portal. Generally, Rackspace’s prices are high for the service rendered (a recent proposal had them 30-40% more than comparable hosting providers). (more…)
