Datacenter intelligence record
Rackspace AS27357
Log or rate-limitRackspace · AS27357 · Hosting / cloud datacenter · US
Datacenter
AS27357
Cloud / Managed Hosting
TX, US
Confidence: High
Handling Guidance
Log or rate-limit- Log by default. Rate-limit or block browser-looking traffic from this network when request volume, path pattern, or behavior indicates automation.
- Datacenter matches are network-origin signals, not bot identities. Use them with request paths, cadence, user-agent evidence, and customer rules.
- Browser-looking traffic from cloud, hosting, VPS, CDN, transit, or automated infrastructure should be evaluated as infrastructure-origin traffic rather than automatically treated as a normal residential visitor.
Record Details
Provider and network data- Provider
- Rackspace
- Organization
- Rackspace Technology
- ASN
- AS27357
- ASN name
- RACKSPACE
- Network
- RACKSPACE
- Country
- US
- Region
- TX
- Services
- Rackspace managed hosting and cloud infrastructure
- Provider type
- Cloud / managed hosting
- Network type
- Hosting / Cloud Datacenter
- Classification
- Datacenter Traffic
- Traffic label
- Datacenter
- Confidence
- High
- Risk
- Medium
- Default action
- Log
- Rules supported
- allow, block, rate-limit, log
- Last verified
- 2026-06-25
- Status
- Active
Detection and Behavior
Operational guidance- Common traffic pattern: Rackspace traffic often appears as server, VPS, cloud, CDN, transit, or automated infrastructure rather than a residential browser session.
- Detection notes: Match by ASN AS27357. Combine network identity with user-agent, path, rate, country, and rule outcomes before enforcement.
- Behavior thresholds: Flag when request volume, identical user-agent reuse, API/feed scraping, login probing, search abuse, or repeated non-human path traversal exceeds normal visitor behavior.
- Human monitoring relevance: Useful for separating datacenter-origin requests from real human visitor traffic. Agency human monitoring should not classify hosting/cloud requests as normal residential humans without additional signals.
- Recommended action: Log by default. Rate-limit or block browser-looking traffic from this network when request volume, path pattern, or behavior indicates automation.
Intelligence Summary
- Rackspace is tracked by Botcrawl as hosting / cloud datacenter associated with AS27357. Traffic from this network should be evaluated as infrastructure-origin traffic rather than automatically treated as a normal residential visitor.
- Rackspace traffic often appears as server, VPS, cloud, CDN, transit, or automated infrastructure rather than a residential browser session.
- Log by default. Rate-limit or block browser-looking traffic from this network when request volume, path pattern, or behavior indicates automation.
Evidence and Source
- Primary source: https://ipinfo.io/AS27357
- Provider URL: https://www.rackspace.com/
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