While at SXSW this year, I was lucky enough to meet Gerald Zhou from Rackspace, who was at Austin’s Conjunctured coworking space. 

For Conjunctured, and now for us, Rackspace will be offering members of New Work City FREE services, detailed below:

Mosso (website hosting via Cloud Sites) - http://mosso.com
* Unlimited sites, databases and email
* Automatic scalability without input
* .NET and/or LAMP

Jungle Disk (online storage and backup on Rackspace Cloud Files) - http://jungledisk.com
* Online network drive to share documents with fellow coworkers
* Backup client to backup crucial files on your computer
* Webaccess to files
* Fully encrypted data
* Conjuctured will cover your storage costs, unless they are ridic

Mailtrust - http://mailtrust.com
* POP and IMAP business class e-mail
* All with BlackBerry and iPhone support.

All these services are free for New Work City members. I know free is a strong word, so, to be clear their are limits (bandwidth, storage space), but they are very, very high. Just send me an email if you would like to get hooked up. Rackspace isn’t asking for anything in return, but you would totally rock if/when you take advantage of these services that you let them know you appreciate them helping us out. 

Rackspace is all about feedback, all about listening to their customers, and all about improving their services based on what they hear. So, I think the best way we can help them out is to give honest feedback. You could do this by Tweeting it out, emailing feedback, thanking them at coworking@rackspace.com, or perhaps writing a blog post with your thoughts.

If you’re interested in getting other Rackspace products or want more info on these services, you can always email our special peeps at coworking@rackspace.com. They would love that.