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		<title>Rackspace Keeping Tabs?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://alynfamily.com/wordpress/2008/02/22/rackspace-keeping-tabs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src='http://alynfamily.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/rackspace_logo.png' alt='Rackspace Logo' style="float:left; padding-right:5px; padding-bottom:5px;" /> Yesterday I <a href="http://alynfamily.com/wordpress/2008/02/21/rackspace-ha/">posted</a> about an email I received from Rackspace regarding their $600 referral promotion. Surprisingly <a href="http://www.alynfamily.com">alynfamily.com</a> 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? <span id="more-754"></span></p>
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		<title>Rackspace &#8211; Ha!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>egg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8230; <a href="http://alynfamily.com/wordpress/2008/02/21/rackspace-ha/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src='http://alynfamily.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/rackspace_logo.thumbnail.png' alt='Rackspace Logo' style="float:left; padding-right:5px; padding-bottom:5px;" /> 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 <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/12/quick-plug-the-internet-back-in-major-rackspace-outage/">major datacenter</a> outage in November took many customers offline. Additionally, very public technology failures for sites like <a href="http://www.37signals.com">37signals</a> and <a href="http://www.tumblr.com">Tumblr</a> are causing a <a href="http://valleywag.com/353193/pleading-price-cuts-cant-halt-rackspace-exodus">mass exodus</a>. I&#8217;ve never hosted anything there myself, but <a href="http://www.nishnash.com">nishnash.com</a> was hosted there while I worked on it and so I still have an account linked to their customer portal. Generally, Rackspace&#8217;s prices are high for the service rendered (a recent proposal had them 30-40% more than <a href="http://www.theplanet.com">comparable</a> <a href="http://www.peer1.com">hosting</a> <a href="http://www.hostmysite.com">providers</a>). <span id="more-751"></span></p>
<p>There are a number of reasons why we ultimately didn&#8217;t choose them for <a href="http://www.honestybox.com">HonestyBox</a> when leaving <a href="http://alynfamily.com/wordpress/2008/01/17/web-hosting-support-nightmare/">ThePlanet</a>. However, high up on our list were costs, responsiveness and recommendations against them from their existing customers (who were planning to leave themselves). When we decided to go with a different provider our salesman very abruptly wished us &#8220;good luck&#8221; and ceased all communication. A word to the wise &#8211; steer clear of them &#8211; what once was the most reliable and dependable hosting provider in this segment has become toxic.</p>
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