(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Application hosting provider Cartika (www.cartikahosting.com) announced on Tuesday that it has launched CartikaCloud (www.cartikacloud.com), the company’s new utility based Linux and Windows cloud hosting services.
CartikaCloud provides a range of high availability cloud based hosting solutions.
The cloud solutions feature completely redundant and self healing architecture with additional and optional load balancing and clustering of all cloud servers and services within the CartikaCloud.
Cartika says its CartikaCloud “resolves most common issues associated with traditional hosting models”. The solution spreads servers and services across a fleet of self healing physical nodes, allowing websites to add CPU, RAM, disk space and bandwidth as required.
Additionally, every component of the offering is redundant and self healing as services are automatically brought up on new physical nodes in case of hardware failure, says the company.
“Our new CartikaCloud solution allows customers the ability to allocate servers and resources in an elastic and utility based manner,” says Cartika CEO Andrew Rouchotas. “The average consumer can create Cloud Servers as required, allocate resources as required, pay by the day for additional resources, operate whichever control panel they are accustomed to using and have our staff fully and proactively manage their Cloud servers on their behalf. Cartika offers the most complete definition of server management available in the industry and this extends to our Managed Cloud Server offerings. Customers can choose to cluster in the cloud, load balance in the cloud or just operate single Cloud Servers.”
CartikaCloud is comprised of several technologies developed by Cartika’s partners, including Citrix systems, NetApp, R1Soft, and CloudLinux.
Citrix systems provides the virtualization and load balancing layers — XenServer and Netscaler respectively — within the CartikaCloud.
NetApp Network Storage solutions acts as the backbone behind the CartikaCloud storage system.
R1Soft provides CDP backup and recovery solutions so that CartikaCloud customers can backup and restore their cloud servers in a granual and efficient manner.
Finally, the CloudLinux Operating system is a commercially supported Linux OS platform specifically built to operate in multi-tenant cloud hosting environments, which allows customers to run a per account software level virtualization within the CartikaCloud.
