CartikaHosting utilizes clustered, undersold environments for our shared hosting environment.  This allows our clients to endure incidents which cause fairly dramatic, short term burts of traffic to their websites.  Such bursts can often be caused by a TV/Radio marketing campaign, or being prominantly displayed on a major online resource (ie Digg or Slashdot).  Such an incident would result in a sudden and dramatic short term increase in traffic.  An undersold environment gives our clients the benefit of paying for any transfer above and beyound their allocated plan amount.  A typical shared hosting provider will suspend accounts for such bursts, even if a user has not reached their bandwidth allocation.  The depicted image below shows an average CartikaHosting web server bursting dramatically on certain days and times.  Bursts of this size are explicitly from specific domains experiencing a much larger transfer rate then they normally would.

Burstable Capabilities

Often times a customers site will experience a very prolonged burst of traffic as a result of a very successful marketing campaign or a seasonally busy industry.  In these instances, CartikaHosting is able to seamlessly move an account to a web server in our cluster which sits idle when not required and is only used to offset clients with prolonged, sustained high loads.  Often times a client does not wish to move to a dedicated environment as the traffic increase is expected to be temporary.  In this instance, clients can move to a dedicated web server environment and pay per use ondemand for bandwidth.  The next month, once their traffic has returned to normal levels, their accont will be moved back to a shared environment and to their normal hosting rates for their account.  Once again, the dramatic advantage to our clients is keeping your website online during your peak periods and when you rely on your services most.

Seamless, On-Demand Server Resources billed by Bandwidth Utilization

No more complicated terms of service wrapped around CPU utilization and Memory utilization.  These are difficult concepts for most clients to understand, and worse yet, clients are not able to quantify their utilization.  CartikaHosting will bill you according to your bandwidth utilization.  When your site needs to be moved to a dedicated On Demand web server, this will be done automatically, and you will only pay for the bandwidth you utilize over your allocated plan amount.  If your growth rate is permanant and you require your own dedicated environment, your account will be seamlessly moved to a VDC or Dedicated server and then seamlessly clustered into your own dedicated cluster as required. 

Seamless, Scalable, On Demand Growth