Rackspace Blog
blog.rackspace.com · Company blog · on HN since 2015
Rackspace is a managed hosting and cloud company, and its blog covers product launches, partnerships, and company news.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for facts about Rackspace, such as its headquarters in a former mall, and for explainers on availability zones and customer cases.
22HN people shared it
9linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts
- 1Rackspace announces AWS managed service offerings3 people · 24 points · first shared 2015 · 12 comments on HN
- 2Why Is Rackspace Supporting Amazon Web Services?2 people · 4 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
- 3Internet of things why connected toasters and other smart home devices matter2 people · first shared 2016
- 4Get an inside look at the rackspace castle via google street view2 people · first shared 2017
- 5Rackspace Launches OnMetal v21 people · 6 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 6It’s Official: Rackspace Is Private1 people · 5 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 7Rackspace Launches Kubernetes-as-a-Service1 people · 4 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 8First Look at Zaius Server Platform from Google, Rackspace Collaboration1 people · 4 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 9HPE and Rackspace Deliver Industry’s First Pay-As-You-Go OpenStack Private Cloud1 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 10How Rackspace and Red Hat Test Your Private Cloud1 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 11Why Workload Isolation Matters and How We Do It1 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 12Kubernetes Explained for Business Leaders1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 13Untangling Transformation: IT vs. Digital vs. Business1 people · 1 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 14Rackspace Welcomes TaskUs, First Neighbors to “Castle” HQ1 people · 1 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 15[rackspace] Hard Things: Cutting Current Costs to Invest in Our Future1 people · 1 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
toomuchtodo · 2018-06-12
Rackspace's HQ in San Antonio, Texas was an old mall.
https://blog.rackspace.com/get-an-inside-look-at-the-rackspace-castle-…
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/31/realestate/commercial/rackspace-rev…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzXDRBp68W4
grkvlt · 2017-12-14
The Rackspace head offices were built in an abandoned Texas mall (Windsor Park Mall, now The Castle, in San Antonio [0]) which is a nice recycling of an otherwise dead space...
0. https://blog.rackspace.com/get-an-inside-look-at-the-rackspace-castle-… and https://youtu.be/J4b0UlAZcH4
bogomipz · 2017-10-21
Possibly concerning as well is it looks like Tinder outsources their databases to a third party provider:
https://blog.rackspace.com/tinder-swipes-right-for-rackspace-managed-c…
matthewrudy · 2017-08-02
A single availability zone can be spread across many physical data centres.
According to this rackspace article, the largest AZ has 5 data centres.
https://blog.rackspace.com/aws-101-regions-availability-zones
amboar · 2017-03-09
There's more recent news on that front: https://blog.rackspace.com/the-latest-zaius-barreleye-g2-open-compute-…
ascendantlogic · 2017-02-22
They were taken private last summer: https://blog.rackspace.com/why-rackspace-is-becoming-a-private-company
woofyman · 2016-11-24
>Thanks to the Internet of Things, the ability to collect massive amounts of data and use it in new and profoundly different ways also enters the picture.
http://blog.rackspace.com/internet-of-things-why-connected-toasters-an…
No thank you very much.
imaginology · 2016-11-24
Not sure about a toster, but there are benefits to having some household appliances connected to the internet. For example, a washing machine may be able to determine what hour it should operate for maximum energy savings, and ping you when finished. I guess a toaster could be similar; pre-loaded with bread so you could ask it to start toasting before getting up from the sofa.
> Consumers may find it totally cool to design images for toast using a smartphone. Meantime, the resulting data would help food companies understand how people approach breakfast, design new products and market to consumers more effectively.
http://blog.rackspace.com/internet-of-things-why-connected-toasters-an…
rogeryu · 2015-10-07
Clicking that link, I see: 403 Forbidden --- nginx. If that's the service they provide...
http://blog.rackspace.com/newsarticles/rackspace-announces-aws-managed…