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.

From its first 5,000-user pilot test in the spring of 2009, TweetPhoto now has over 4.3 million visits per month, according to Compete, Inc., a web analytics firm. TweetPhoto initially utilized The Rackspace Cloud, but as the young company developed relationships with the likes of the Twitter developer community, the number of users—and the number of photos being transmitted—rapidly mushroomed. TweetPhoto quickly graduated to Rackspace Managed Hosting.

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.

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.

Gallant FX Inc. is a Foreign Exchange liquidity provider that offers a wide range of trading technologies and services in a unique Forex Trading environment. Gallant VPS can be accessed on different operating systems—anytime, anywhere by hundreds of traders. MetaTrader is a trusted online trading platform designed for financial institutions dealing with Forex, Contracts for Difference (CFD) and futures market, and is used by hundreds of brokerage companies and banks worldwide.

As a social discovery and cataloging network, LivingSocial enables people to share reviews of their favorite movies, books, games, music, restaurants and more. From a business model perspective, LivingSocial's data on audience preferences provides marketers with a highly targeted advertising platform. More recently, LivingSocial has launched a hyper-local deals product which pairs their user base with unbeatable one-day deals at the hottest local restaurants, spas, sporting events, and more.

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.