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Nov. 10-09 - SAN ANTONIO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—The Rackspace® Cloud, the cloud computing division of Rackspace Hosting (NYSE:RAX), today announced that Posterous, the popular blogging service, has chosen the company’s comprehensive portfolio of cloud services to support its rapidly growing computing power and storage requirements.
Posterous gives users an easy way to create high quality blogs without the headache of manually maintaining it themselves. Members can simply update their page with text, pictures or video by sending it directly to an email address and Posterous does the rest. This automated approach to blogging has helped to drive the company’s growth since its launch last year.
“We built a dead simple application for everyone – from geeks to soccer moms – to share thoughts, pictures and videos, and we needed a cost effective hosting solution to run it,” said Sachin Agarwal, Co-Founder of Posterous. “We had turned to The Rackspace Cloud for affordability, the ability to spin up new servers in seconds, uptime and for Fanatical Support. We’ve been so happy with the service that we have now made the decision to switch to Rackspace Cloud Files, from Amazon’s S3, for our new storage needs.”
The Rackspace Cloud reduces IT infrastructure complexity and expense for Posterous by offering the ability to instantly expand compute power during times of high demand. As an example, when the new iPhone 3G S became available, Posterous saw a 400% increase in video uploads from their users. The Rackspace Cloud helped Posterous handle the load with ease, transcoding all the videos and rapidly preparing them for online viewing.
Posterous utilizes The Rackspace Cloud to power all their compute operations, starting with email processing. When a blog post is sent to Posterous in an email to post@posterous.com, virtual server instances handle the processing required to convert the content to the appropriate format and ship it to the database, which is also powered by Rackspace server instances. In addition, Posterous leverages The Rackspace Cloud as application servers for the frontend Ruby on Rails application that presents user content in a blog-style format for visitors.
The Rackspace Cloud helps developers and IT managers – from startups, like Posterous, to enterprises – minimize the hassles, upfront investments and high costs associated with dedicated hardware while offering the ability to easily scale hosting resources.
“Our commitment to remove the hassles, complexity and expense of IT infrastructure complements Posterous’ vision. They make blogging easy, and we make hosting easy,” said Emil Sayegh, general manager, The Rackspace Cloud. “Posterous, like other customers, are coming to The Rackspace Cloud because we make IT tasks simple through our technology and award winning Fanatical Support.”
Posterous continues to try to drive growth by offering new capabilities and content such as the recent launch of background themes for blogs. Later this year, Posterous reports that they intend to begin storing all new media sent to post@posterous.com, including photos, MP3s, documents and videos, on Cloud Files, the unlimited storage offering from The Rackspace Cloud.
About Posterous
Posterous, founded in 2008, is a blogging platform that helps users post content online fast and easy using email. The fast growing service supports any file type including video and speeds the blogging process by autoposting content in attractive galleries and formats.
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