Rackspace outage leaves trail of outrage, anger on social media

Brilliant transfer by @Rackspace “Let’s ship an e-mail to clients who can’t entry e-mail to inform them about not with the ability to entry e-mail”. #rackspace #RackspaceDown pic.twitter.com/cOiL4OCloP

— Christopher G. Smith (@cgsmith) December 5, 2022

How is the @Rackspace outage not trending? This e-mail outage is having a catastrophic impression on small companies all around the world and there may be seemingly no finish in sight. @CBSNews @FoxNews @CNN @NBCNews @ABC @WSJbusiness @CNBC

— Nick Cioromski (@NCioromski) December 2, 2022

36 hours in the past the e-mail internet hosting service @Rackspace went down

With it hundreds of companies misplaced entry to their emails and it’s nonetheless down

They was one of the most effective internet hosting suppliers, however then they laid off a big portion of their employees… not a coincidence.

— Iman Jalali (@Stealx) December 3, 2022

Please @rackspace stage along with your clients. This outage is so damaging for my enterprise and traumatic. Will Managed Exchange ever be again up and working? If so when? Has our information been breached?

— EstateTerrier (@EstateTerrier) December 5, 2022

Anybody else use #Rackspace to host e-mail? There has been a MAJOR outage affecting small companies worldwide – together with mine! No emails and I’m touring on enterprise for a number of weeks. Unacceptable.

What e-mail hosts do you utilize and suggest? Please reply beneath.

— Tiffany Dowd (@LuxeTiffany) December 3, 2022

Okay, Rackspace, that is ridiculous. I’m a small enterprise proprietor unable to entry my e-mail. I’ve tried to succeed in you for an replace. I lastly obtained a name again with the “racker” laughing he had 400 extra calls to return. He had completely no rationalization. This is ridiculous.

— Sharon Jones (@azsharin) December 2, 2022

No communication, no forwarding, unable to make use of M365, no chat perform, no tech assist, no error message. No emails!!!! Not certain if there may be anything to do.
Utter frustration.

— interstatefilings (@interstatefilin) December 5, 2022

Hey @Rackspace, keep in mind in 2007 when a drunk driver ran off the street and hit a transformer at your San Antonio information heart, taking it offline? I certain do! #RackspaceOutage #rackspace #RackspaceDown https://t.co/cEvadL3DnN

— REEEEEEEEEEEsponder (@sh_ftr) December 5, 2022

Rackspace has been having a foul few days https://t.co/aZRJyavjDO

— Ben West (@westbywest) December 5, 2022

@barronsonline, within the headline about @rackspace you misspelled “hundreds of clients and small companies” as “some”

— Lucas Bly (@GlynElyn) December 5, 2022

@Rackspace what a multitude you guys have created made worst with NO suggestions actually disappointing in such a big publicly traded firm . I actually thought you guys had your act collectively have been is the catastrophe restoration plan ?

— Tony G (@TonyG64397491) December 5, 2022

Well it has been 13 hours. pic.twitter.com/fkTzyMzDmF

— Steve Johnson (@stevej00) December 5, 2022

I’ve gotten 3 cellphone calls from rackspace staff apologizing about this and saying they’re doing the whole lot they’ll however after I ask to get the forwarding achieved now they are saying they aren’t techs. Just staff calling to say they’re working on getting us again up.

— asher forst (@ForstAsher) December 5, 2022