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Free managed cloud servers for ChCh businesses

01 Mar 2011

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Cloud hosting company Rackspace is offering free, fully managed cloud servers (Linux or Windows) to any IT businesses that are in need in Christchurch.

To put your case forward you need to fill out this web form with your business or company name, phone number, email, and details of your server needs.

The requests will then be passed onto a Rackspace Account Mananger who will be managing enquires.

You can read more about the offer of help here (page now taken down).

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