Managed Windows Cloud Server Features
Clustered H-Sphere Managed Windows Cloud Server Features
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Cartika has data centers in both the United States and Canada. Choose which country to deploy your Cloud server in, or deploy Cloud servers in both countries as required. With a Clustered Hsphere Reseller Cloud account, maintain the ability to centrally manage fleets of VPS servers, Cloud Servers or Dedicated servers - across multiple platforms and multiple countries. All from a central managed interface. |
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All Cloud solutions are not created equal. Utilizing Citrix Xenserver Enterprise version, in combination with Cartika's unique 3 layer approach to Cloud Computing, Cartika delivers an Enterprise grade Cloud Solution that can be delivered as a fluid, elastic and complete Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering. The Cartika Cloud offers real fluidity of instances, utility billing, elasticity and real high availability. See the Cartika Cloud Network Diagram. Compare our Cloud Servers vs Utility VPS Servers or solutions our competitors are marketing and selling as "cloud" based solutions. |
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Cartika's ZFS Cloud Storage Backbone is simply the most advanced and highly available storage platform available with any public or private cloud offering. SSD Read and Write volumes that are infinitely and instantly scalable results in superior, consistent and predictable performance - even under the heaviest workloads. Using ZFS zpool's, Cartika is able to infinitely and seamlessly scale volumes to multiple petabytes and beyound. Automatic daily backups of all data and volumes both locally to alternate ZFS dump SAN's as well as off site and out of country for the ultimate in disaster recovery planning (customers wishing to opt out of out of country replication are able to do so). |
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Cartika has been setting the standard for Support in the hosting industry for more then 10 years. Real 24x7 Phone, eMail and Live Chat support. Response times in minutes for all inquiries. Resolutions for even the most Complex issues are handled appropriately with updates and escalations until tickets can be properly closed off. Our Proactive Support in Managed environments is second to none. Extensive proactive monitoring and response to all sorts of scenarios. Cartika contacts our managed customers regularly if we see activity that requires attention. Escalation paths to our engineering teams for even the most complex issues. No heroic or fanatic gimmicks, Cartika simply provides rock solid, industry leading support. |
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Cartika offers the most complete definition of Managed Services available in the industry. A true proactive approach to managing your servers. Cartika proactively monitors all hardware and services in a manner which predicts failure. Our technicians are notified of issues, typically before it becomes service affecting and are resolving potential issues and problems before they are service affecting. Managed backups, Managed firewalls, proactive and real time intrusion detection, virus protection, detection, action and resolution are all included as standard in our Managed Cloud offerings. |
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The Cartika Cloud offers a high availability solution without the requirement for complex Load Balancing. Redundant at absolutely every level, Your Cloud Server will automatically be served off of different hardware in case of failure. With Citrix Enterprise live migration technology, no manual intervention is required and no more waiting for admins to manually restart instances on alternate hardware. Cartika Cloud Servers are automatically, and in real time, migrated to alternate hardware when required. |
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Achieve a complete and automated elastic computing model. Upgrade or downgrade your hard server resources (CPU and RAM) in real time. Do not be limited with the resources available on your particular node, and avoid downtime and problems associated with migrations. Need more resources then are available on your particular node? With the Cartika Cloud, simply select the amount of resources you require, and if enough resources are not available on your particular node, the Cartika Cloud will find a physical node with enough available resources and will seamlessly move your instance to that node. |
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Complete Fluidity within our Cloud computing model. Your Cartika Cloud Server is not bound to any physical node. Your instance will seamlessly move around amongst physical nodes in our cloud to accommodate for resources requirements, hardware failure, maintenance windows, etc. Achieve the highest possible uptime available in a Cloud Computing Model by removing many typical Reasons For Outages (RFO) found in other cloud solutions. |
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Managed Windows Cloud Servers on a clustered H-Sphere platform. Enjoy using the most powerful and flexible hosting and infrastructure control panel available in the market. Seamlessly cluster services across multiple types of infrastructure. Centrally manage and support fleets of servers, across multiple data centers from a central location. Support and central management capability for Linux and Windows based solutions. Choose an end user configuration and span your domains and services across our cluster and your single or multiple VPS instances. Reseller option is also available for customers wishing to use this infrastructure to resell hosting to their customers. For customers reselling services, full resale capability of Linux and Windows VPS servers, Cloud Servers and Dedicated Servers and Clusters is available - Right from your own central interface. |
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Managed Windows Cloud Server on a clustered WebSitePanel platform. Plug your Cloud Server into our established, 100% cloud based WebSitePanel cluster. Our WebSitePanel Control Panel, DNS and Exchange 2010 Services are 100% Cloud based. We then plug your Cloud instance with IIS, MSSQL and eMail services into our cluster. With the Cartika WebSitePanel Cloud Server offering, control panel services and redundant DNS services are offloaded from your Cloud instance onto our infrastructure. This leaves more resources available for your website and services as there is no baseline resource cost associated with Control Panel and DNS services as found in other control panel solutions. You can also build a cluster of Windows based instances (VPS, Cloud, Dedicated) in order to build your own private cluster. |
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With a clustered Hsphere or WebSitePanel Cloud Server solution, your Control Panel and DNS services are offloaded onto the Cartika infrastructure. By removing heavy Control Panel services from your Cloud instance, no more wasted and expensive Control Panel overhead - use all of the resources you have purchased towards your core services. By offloading DNS onto Cartika's redundant DNS servers gain DNS redundancy that is not possible with a single instance without accruing the costs of expensive and complex 3rd party DNS services. Additionally, customers are able to seamlessly create complex clusters. Isolate DB services onto its own instances. With Hsphere specifically, centrally manage Windows and Linux clusters, and much much more. |
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Cartika offers up to date Windows Technology with 64bit Windows 2008 R2 and MS SQL 2008 Servers. Support for production ready .NET versions including .NET v1.1,2,3,3.5 and 4. A clustered environment allowing seamless ODBC connections to MS Access, MS SQL, MySQL and pgSQL. |
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For customers reselling hosting on the Cartika Hsphere Cloud offering, Cartika allows fluidity of your shared hosting accounts. Once one of your customers have outgrown a shared hosting account, Cartika can easily move your account, without service interruptions, to their own isolated nodes. Move your account to a VPS instance, a Cloud server or a Dedicated server. Your account can also be moved, in an almost seamless manner to a cluster of instances or servers. Alternatively, an account can be moved to an isolated instance and then later clustered off to multiple instances. Full resale capability of additional VPS servers, Cloud Servers and Dedicated Servers and Clusters to your customers as required. |
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Cartika offers free SpamAssassin Anti-Spam and ClamAV Anti-Virus for all email accounts. For users who are victims of large volumes of spam, or who have a very low tolerance to spam, Cartika offers seamless integration with our own Geographically Dispersed, Cloud Based SpamExperts Enterprise Grade Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus facilities (Hsphere Only). SpamExperts is available for $1/month/DOMAIN, can be seamlessly added to any domain hosted within your control panel, offers a web GUI management interface, full quarantine and digest options and much more. |
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Centrally managed Microsoft Forefront comes standard with our managed Windows Cloud Hosting solution. Forefront centralizes intrusion detection protocol and automatically pushes out new rules and updates across our entire fleet of servers. Real time Anti-Virus scanning, reporting and quarantine protocol for all Windows servers keeps them secure as possible, up to date with the latest security protocol and free of any viruses customers may otherwise be infected with. |
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Microsoft WSUS automatic patching and update system. Using our own centralized repository of Microsoft updates and patches, our systems will push out updates to all Windows servers as required. WSUS can push out many updates in a rebootless manner, however, those updates which still require a reboot will be scheduled and completed automatically. Only critical updates will be completed immediately and non critical updates will be automatically scheduled for off hours, over a weekend. |
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Cartika includes an unlimited R1Soft CDP license for all of our customers. Add as many Cloud servers as you desire, backup as many web servers (Apache, IIS, etc) or DB servers (MySQL, pgSQL, MSSQL) or eMail servers as you desire. 15 restore points of ALL of your data included with every Managed Cartika Cloud Server. |
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Cartika offers Sharepoint 2010 (WSS4) with all Clustered Windows Cloud Hosting accounts. Build a intranet or extranet portal using Microsoft Sharepoint technology. Add as many users as you like, manage as many documents and as much content as you like. You are only limited by the space and bandwidth available with your account. Upgrade your Cloud seamlessly to add additional resources as required. |
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Cartika includes a cloud based Microsoft Exchange 2010 Reseller Account based on WebSitePanel for free with our Cloud offerings. Right from your Cloud control panel, create a WebSitePanel Exchange 2010 Reseller Account at no charge. Single point for login and billing. Resell Cloud based Microsoft Exchange 2010 for $7/month including 20GB mailboxes for each user. Offering includes Outlook licenses, Forefront AV/AS and much much more... |
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For advanced users requiring SSH, root or Administrator access to their Cloud servers, Cartika offers a Virtual Private Network (VPN) solution. Using a VPN you can lock down your server to all remote access except from your VPN user. VPN communication is encrypted, secure and follows you where ever you go. Cartika provides VPN users for $5/month/VPN User. |
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