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Rackspace Ranked Number Four on San Antonio Express-News 2010 Top Workplaces List

^{Published on 2010-10-22 08:35:51 - Market Wire}
 

SAN ANTONIO--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Rackspace® Hosting (NYSE: RAX), the worlda™s leading specialist in the hosting and cloud computing industry, today announced that it has been ranked fourth on the San Antonio Express-News Top Workplaces list for 2010. Over the past year, Rackspace jumped up three spots from last yeara™s ranking of number seven on the first-ever 2009 list.

"We are honored to be included on the San Antonio Express-Newsa™ Top Workplace list for a second consecutive year"

aWe are honored to be included on the San Antonio Express-Newsa™ Top Workplace list for a second consecutive year,a said Wayne Roberts, senior vice president of Human Resources, Rackspace. aOur success at Rackspace is directly related to our dedicated employees, which we call Rackers, and their commitment to delivering Fanatical Support to more than 100,000 customers. Jumping to number four on the list this year confirms that our engaged workforce is helping Rackspace continue to grow and succeed in its vision to be recognized as one of the worlda™s great service companies.a

The San Antonio Express-News Top Workplace list was featured on Sunday, October 17, 2010. To view the entire list, please visit [ www.mysa.com ].

About Rackspace Hosting

Rackspace Hosting is the world's leading specialist in hosting and cloud computing. The San Antonio-based company provides Fanatical Support (r) to its customers, across a portfolio of IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing. For more information, visit [ www.rackspace.com ].

This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. If such risks or uncertainties materialize or such assumptions prove incorrect, the results of Rackspace Hosting could differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements and assumptions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements, including any statements about historical results or third party data that may suggest trends for our business or industry; any statements of the plans, strategies, and objectives of Rackspace for future operations or growth; any statements of expectation or belief regarding future events, and any statements of assumptions underlying any of the items mentioned. Risks, uncertainties and assumptions include the possibility that expected growth or success may not materialize because of Rackspacea™s inability to continue to provide a culture that engages its workforce, rapid technological changes that can adversely affect the demand for Rackspace products and services, shifts in customer demand, customers' and potential customers' acceptance of Rackspace products and services, and other risks that are described in Rackspace Hosting's Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2010, filed with the SEC on August 9, 2010. Except as required by law, Rackspace Hosting assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements publicly, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future.