Rackspace Managed Hosting and Webmail.us work together on new infrastructure to power Webmail.us’ email hosting platform, and to design and deploy highly redundant server clusters based on commodity hardware

December 4, 2006 – (TopHosts News Brief) – Webmail.us today announced it engaged Rackspace Managed Hosting™ to help design, develop, and deploy a new infrastructure to power the company’s email hosting platform.

The two companies worked together to build an infrastructure platform that accomplishes three primary goals, which are to provide built-in redundancy at all levels of the configuration, to scale with the growth of the email hosting customer base, and to ensure the cost of the overall platform scales as it grows, especially as the demands for unlimited storage and bandwidth increase over time.

Webmail.us approached Rackspace for help in engineering an alternative hosting environment with many independent clusters of machines, with each cluster dedicated to a single process, such as spam filtering or POP3. With this approach, each application has its own redundancy and can scale-out separately from the other applications.

When one or more servers fail within a cluster, there are many more to handle the load. Webmail.us runs commodity “white-box” Linux servers built with standard off-the-shelf components such as AMD processors and SATA hard drives. The email hosting system is designed to scale efficiently to thousands of servers, and tolerate hardware failures by automatically rerouting traffic away from faulty machines.

For more information, please visit www.rackspace.com, or visit www.webmail.us.