Rackspace

About Rackspace

Rackspace US, Inc. (dba Rackspace) is a IT hosting company based in San Antonio, Texas. The company also has offices in the United Kingdom and The Netherlands and data centers operating in Texas, Virginia, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong in late 2008. A subsidiary of Rackspace, Mailtrust, operates in Blacksburg, VA.

Rackspace's support ideology - termed Fanatical Support - and team structures involve all "Rackers" (employees).

In 1996, Richard Yoo started a small ISP out of his garage apartment called Cymitar Network Systems in San Antonio, Texas. Quickly, this company began to provide application development work, in addition to basic internet access and web hosting. In 1997, Yoo met Dirk Elmendorf and the company formally began to develop internet applications as its primary business and a new company was formed called Cymitar Technology Group. As Cymitar Technology Group grew, Patrick Condon moved from California and joined the team in 1998. Coincidentally, all three were students at one time at Trinity University in San Antonio.