Managed Hosting Customer Stories & Case Studies

The rapid adoption of the Bluetooth wireless standard increased the group's membership and traffic on its sites and subsites. The group couldn't rely on their original provider and their ad hoc systems to provide the availability the Bluetooth community demanded.

Firefly's server infrastructure was unstable at best—at the local provider's mercy. Even after bringing in a high-priced Linux "guru", the company and its owners still spent many sleepless nights tracking down and fixing the unending problems. They soon realized that only a provider that guaranteed the availability and reliability of their servers could save them.

Since 1998, The Complete Website™ has built effective websites, delivering sales leads and satisfied clients. The Complete Website uses best-of-the-web tools to deliver the finest solutions available at affordable prices. Now, by deploying Rackspace's Green Server Configuration, The Complete Website also reduces energy consumption and can offer carbon-neutral website capabilities to clients looking for new ways to go green.

ShopLocal's near instant success meant larger then expected online holiday shopping traffic. It also meant a rapidly scaleable and a highly reliable infrastructure was called for. After turning to Rackspace to support Holiday overflow traffic, ShopLocal realized that our Fanatical Support®, expertise, responsiveness and ability to easily scale was exactly what they needed. Soon, their hundreds of sites were all hosted at Rackspace.

When skinnyCorp created Threadless.com, their side project became a web phenomenon and their business was unintentionally reinvented. But constantly maintaining servers and adding them to their old colocation solution to keep up with traffic became unfeasible, and ultimately everything crashed. As a Rackspace customer they now have the ability to grow their environment exponentially while they have the time to embark on more ventures.

TStream Software provides a valuable service for any company needing to move a complex infrastructure: Migration. TStream saw a huge opportunity for growing their business by joining Rackspace's Partner Network. But before that, they wanted to ensure their own infrastructure, as well as that of their client's, were hosted on a fully-managed, top-tier infrastructure. Rackspace offered TStream the best of both worlds.

More than two years of development and planning were invested into WorkshopLive before it ever hit the web. When it came time to go live there was no question that the company's trailblazing site, with it's interactive and customized instruction methods, didn't just need to be hosted somewhere. It needed to be hosted and expertly supported so their users could have the ultimate music lessons, without any interruptions or delays.

Already hosting their legacy product with Rackspace, MindSCOPE made the decision to put its newest web-based staffing software in the hands of another provider. They soon realized the new provider, although cheaper, wasn't worth all the problems MindSCOPE and their users continually experienced. When all the issues cam to ahead, the company migrated its new product to Rackspace where they never felt like a second-class customer.

On Sunday, Oct. 21, deadly wildfires began sweeping across southern California, primarily in San Diego County. By Tuesday, Oct. 23, more than a million people had evacuated hundreds of thousands of homes. 211 San Diego's website became completely overwhelmed by people seeking information. They contacted Pangea Foundation for help developing new software that could handle the influx and manage the crisis. Pangea Foundation turned to Rackspace for the infrastructure.