Cartika.com Launched

Cartika launched a new website, a home page for all the product offerings.

This site will be used as a Corp home page for Cartika. Eventually, all resources, etc will be added to this site. Additionally, the site is used as a central navigation point across our entire network of sites for easy access to our brands and services

New CartikaVPS.com site Launched

Cartika has launched a new website dedicated to the VPS offerings.

Cartika showcase - fully managed h-sphere clusters, shared, reseller, vps, dedicated, cloud hosting

Cartika is an established provider based on Toronto, Canada and Texas, USA. They provide services from Colo4Dallas datacenter, where they co-locate their infrastructure.

Cartika has gained a great reputation and is probably the no.1 recommended H-Sphere provider! Cartika is one of the few providers that has not any single negative review! Impressive, isn't it?

They started as an H-Sphere provider, but now they support many control panels for VPS, Dedicated, Clusters, Cloud servers: Cpanel, DirectAdmin, DotNetPanel, Website Panel etc.

They provide a  wide range of product offerings:

• H-Sphere clustered hosting
• Linux, FreeBSD, Windows Hosting
• Exchange, Sharepoint
• PHP, CGI, ASP,Coldfusion, MySQL, PostgreSQL
• VPS with H-Sphere (shared cluster or autonomous), Cpanel, DirectAdmin, DotNetPanel etc.
• Dedicated Servers with H-Sphere (shared cluster or autonomous), Cpanel, DirectAdmin, DotNetPanel etc.
• Backup Servers 
• SAAS - Software As A Service (Oscommerce, SugarCRM, Wordpress, Joomla etc.)

All the above can be  run on cloud instances as well!! And everything is fully managed with proactive monitoring - this means that any cloud server, vps, dedicated or cluster is functioning as a shared/reseller account!

Resellers can really benefit from the above offerings and distinguish themselves from other competitors.

Cartika's advantage over competition:

• R1-Soft Backup with 15-30 restore points
• Dell servers
• Infrastructure is owned by Cartika
• Cloudlinux (a new special CentOS distribution based on different kernel that can isolate user resources - this is available on some standard clustered servers for shared/reseller customers!).
• Citrix Netscaler for the cloud servers, high performance SAN storage
• ..and many more

You can visit Cartika's website here.

A Hosting Fiasco... 4 days and 18 hours of downtime.

All Eirca clients and resellers (and the end users...) have witnessed and suffered a downtime of 4 days and 18 hours - from 11th to 16th of June 2010. Eirca was a highly appraised company and a secure choice, especially for H-Sphere reseller hosting and dedicated clusters. Unfortunately, service had gone downhill around 2009 and the above mentioned downtime was the icing on the cake.

No formal announcement has been made up to now by Eirca management. You can get a picture of the downtime at the following threads in Web Hosting Talk (the biggest hosting community in the world):

• Must Reach Simon or EIRCA - ASAP for existing server issues!
• Eirca.net Down last 14 hours
• EIRCA and My thoughts..

This blog was not made to bash Eirca (leave past behind). After all, everyone who stayed with this provider so long is totally responsible (since the service had dropped down many months ago). Once Eirca offered great service and we thank them for it. But, some (or many times in hosting industry) things fail for a number of reasons.

So, by creating this blog I would like to recommend you some H-Sphere Hosting Providers that have great reputation and above all: stability, proven uptime, proven customer service for many years.

Just one advice to all resellers: do not be cheap. Your customers deserve the best. Your precious time should be productive in order to make a profit, and not spend hours (and days) moving sites around hosts and reply to customer tickets because of your upstream provider's inability.

A quick list of H-Sphere resellers (very soon we will make a complete presentation):

• CARTIKA (premium service, the most feature-rich provider, high quality, price friendly)
• JODOHOST (very stable provider, price friendly)
• STEADFAST (a really old webhost, price friendly, lite-speed powered clustered h-sphere platform)

Recommended H-Sphere Provider