Voted as the best database hosting service in Penton Media's SQL Server Magazine Readers' Choice Awards.

Rackspace Managed Hosting, a hosting service provider, today announced that it was voted as the winner in Penton Media's SQL Server Magazine Readers' Choice Awards as best database hosting service.

Readers were asked to vote on their product preferences in 8 broad technology categories. The ballot included categories like business intelligence products, development tools, disaster prevention/recovery, hardware, security, storage, training and certification, and SQL server management.

"This is the second time that SQL Server Magazine readers have honored Rackspace for our world-class hosting services - we were also voted the Readers' Choice Best Hosting Service Provider of 2004," said John Engates, chief technology officer, Rackspace Managed Hosting. "Our database hosting services are second-to-none as they maximize the value customers get out of their SQL Server databases."