Although many debates about which operating system is best for hosting a server usually revolve around Linux and Windows, they are just two of many server-ready operating systems available.

Last week marked the first ever Rackspace Financial Analyst Day at the New York Stock Exchange, which culminated with Graham Weston and several Rackspace customers ringing the closing bell.

The event took place in the Historic Boardroom of the NYSE and was a two day affair: the first night was a customer social and presentation from President and CEO Lanham Napier and Cloud President Lew Moorman; the second day was for Investors and Financial Analysts and can be viewed by going to the ‘Investor’ section at the bottom of the Rackspace homepage within the next week.

Convenience and cost-effectiveness are driving email campaigns to the top of the marketing toolbox these days. The reason, in part, is due to the economy, but also because more businesses are capitalizing on the rise in popularity of mobile devises and social networking sites. These digital marketing avenues also present new breeding grounds for unsolicited commercial email (spam).

This has been a crazy week at Hosting.com. We spent the early part of the week getting everything sorted out with the Newark cloud after a storage issue and things are moving as quickly as ever on the engineering side of the house. I’m pretty excited that we are starting to get the first modules for our portal developed by our groups internally and by our partners. The portal team has started the process of integrating these modules while we address a few bugs that have been reported by our staff and customer. The other major initiative underway is getting a private version of our Cloud Enterprise offering out the door. It looks like the settled product name will be Cloud Private and the idea is that you will have all the same functionality in the portal as a Cloud Enterprise customer – but have your resources provisioned on dedicated hardware nodes that only contain your Virtual Machines.