Rackspace chosen by Excedent for Managed Hosting Provider

HostReview.com
Monday, June 28, 2004; 12:00 AM

Jun 28, 2004 – (HostReview.com) – Rackspace (www.rackspace.com) was chosen as hosting provider by Excedent Technologies (www.excedent.com), announced today the leading provider of outsourced email hosting. Rackspace serves as the primary infrastructure that powers Excedent's email hosting and security applications.

The hosting provider gives 100 percent network uptime which makes the offering well suited for Application Service Providers like Excedent. Excedent equips service providers and their small business customers with reliable Spam-filtered and virus-free email.

"Rackspace takes a very hands-on approach with its Fanatical Support™ offering," explained Bill Boebel, CTO of Excedent. Their engineers know and understand our applications and are there to troubleshoot issues within minutes, continues Boebel.

"We decided to move our infrastructure to Rackspace because of their unique positioning within the hosting industry," commented Patrick Matthews, CEO of Excedent.

The Rackspace selection is seen as a testament for the hosting company support and service level provided by the company. Founded in 1998, Rackspace offers a wide range of managed services for enterprise hosting platforms. "Excedent hosts mission critical applications for thousands of businesses and some of the most well-respected service providers in the industry," said Graham Weston, CEO, Rackspace Managed Hosting.

Rackspace's network has been engineered from the ground up to accommodate the high-availability demands of mission-critical Web applications.