--- title: "Rackspace customers grapple with “devastating” email hosting price hike" url: https://daily.dev/posts/rackspace-customers-grapple-with-devastating-email-hosting-price-hike-j81m9fm75 source_url: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/rackspace-raises-email-hosting-prices-by-as-much-as-706-percent/ type: article source: "Ars Technica" published: 2026-01-16T23:32:21.766Z updated: 2026-01-16T23:33:39.260Z tags: ["cloud", "devops"] reading_time: 2 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Rackspace customers grapple with “devastating” email hosting price hike **[Ars Technica](https://daily.dev/sources/arstechnica)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Rackspace dramatically increased email hosting prices, with standard plans jumping from $3 to $10 per mailbox monthly. Reseller partners report price hikes ranging from 110% to 706%, with only six weeks notice. The increases eliminate previous volume discounts, making email hosting a major expense burden for businesses that relied on Rackspace's services for decades. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The Relationship Tax: What Staying With Your SEG Is Really Costing Your MSP](https://daily.dev/posts/the-relationship-tax-what-staying-with-your-seg-is-really-costing-your-msp-df8lzkudr) · Security Boulevard · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#cloud](https://daily.dev/tags/cloud), [#devops](https://daily.dev/tags/devops) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/rackspace-customers-grapple-with-devastating-email-hosting-price-hike-j81m9fm75)