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CEO of Rackspace apologizes to customers

Jordan Golson ยท 11/13/07 12:10PM

An accident near Rackspace's Dallas datacenter sparked a late-night Web crisis, downing Internet service providers from Texas to California and bringing down 37signals' Web-based software suite, on which many startups depend for coordinating their work. But Rackspace worked fast to fix the cause of the outage โ€” balky chillers which failed to start when switched to backup power, causing the datacenter to overheat โ€” and by midnight, most of Rackspace's hosted websites were back online. Here's the apology note from Rackspace CEO Lanham Napier, forwarded to us by a customer.