CartikaHosting has enjoyed a solid reputation as an H-Sphere provider for years now. They might not be as often talked about as other companies, they may not be the cheapest provider out there, but they more than make up for both through consistency, and that's a very valuable thing in this day and age, there are not that many things one can rely on.

Over time Andrew, the owner, has been able to shape my view into accepting that more than one control panel has a place under the Sun, and that more than one of them deserves to be supported. Diversity can ultimately only be a good thing for the end user.

Note: They're a Canadian company, but their servers are in US.

Now that I'm done with the introduction, you can go ahead and read these customer reviews that I've found at WebHostingTalk.com, and gave me the confidence to list them on my site.

Thread title: CartikaHosting.com -- 2 month review
Thread and web hosting review author: PixelManual

"I have been with Cartika on a shared hosting account for 2 months now, and felt it was time to review their excellent service.

Network

It has been fantastic. I generally get great speeds with as few hops as possible. Able to upload at over 80kbps, a nice change from my old host where I could up about 15kbps on a good day. Download speeds are great all over NA and even UK. Quite impressed with it. I'm not aware of any down time, but I don't have any trackers on it. (...)

Support

Just like to say Thank you! to andrew and the team. This is the first time I've ever played with h-sphere and they had no problem helping me out every time I had a question. Without a doubt they go above and beyond, considering getting a dedicated from them for my new project."

Thread title: Kudos to Cartikahosting
Thread and web hosting review author: longhornprojects

"I want to publicly compliment Andrew and Jonathon at Cartikahosting.com.
After a year as a reseller I'm still learning the business.

The service level provided for my problems well exceeded my expectations. (...)

all my emails were answered better than promptly. in addition i immediately received an update when i ask for it.
Both Andrew and Jonathon offered timely advice and when i still had problems resolved the situation for me.(...)

Because of this and past experience i will always reccommend cartikahosting as a first choice in hosting."

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Thread title: 3 Month Review (CartikaHosting.com)
Thread and web hosting review author: ukweatherguide

"(...)Never having tried H-Sphere hosting before I was worried about ease of use (as I had only ever used Cpanel before) so I clicked the Live Chat option and had a chat with Andrew who eased my worries and helped me through the sign-up procedure.(...)

UPTIME:
Since November last year uptime has been fantastic (compared to the others I have hosted with). Currently 99.876% total uptime has been achieved.

The only downtime was for scheduled maintenance which was posted in advance on the forum.

Uptime statistics: siteuptime.com/statistics.php?Id=23978&&UserId=37987


SUPPORT
One of the best things about Cartika is the high level of support. Apart from the ticketing support system there is the live chat option on the web site where the majority of my questions have been answered satisfactory. There is also a friendly members and guest forum which I have recently started using.

My tickets have been answered within a hour during office hours (I haven't opened a ticket outside normal hours so can't comment on resolution times).(...)"

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Thread title: CartikaHosting.com: EXCELLENT!
Thread and web hosting review author: mripguru

My comment: This customer eventually got a job there.

"(...)I've been them for almost 2 months now, and so far, I can say I'm extremely impressed. (...)

They have some of the one of the best admins (Jeffrey) in the industry today for managing H-Sphere clusters - with him on the job, I can truely sleep at night knowing I won't have angry customers in the morning to deal with.

I've had NO downtime whatsoever (except for a small glitch, but that was quickly fixed - and it wasn't really even service affecting). (...)

While they might be a bit pricier than most WHT hosts (and for good reason, I might add), they do make up for their fees in service reliability, support as well as just being all around nice people and not "ticket monkeys"."

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Thread title: Cartikahosting.com Review
Thread and web hosting review author: cjwong

"(...) After going through few hosting companies, I have finally found the right one - cartikahosting not only was very helpful in all kinds of questions, its support was available all the time. The email replies were all within hour. It's exellence support replies with detail information that is clear and easy to understand.

Cartika not only provide best service that I have had in my experience, the tools that it provides are also cutting edge. Cartika Hosting's uptime and speed was superb, hence I would recommand to anyone who needs web hosting service for their business, personal use or for reselling purposes.(...)"

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Thread title: cartikahosting.com review
Thread and web hosting review author: ssllp

"(...)I ended up choosing cartikahosting.com from this forum. They used mambo to build my site and also provide me with web hosting and email. I’m very happy with the site they built for me and their service!

I’m also quite impressed with the mambo site they set up for me. I'm able to update all my pages and even create new ones really quickly and easily.

I would recommend this company to anyone that needs hosting services. (...)"

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Thread title: Cartika or Rochen?
Thread author: pingme97

Web hosting review author: tcstatic

"I'll chime in for Cartika. I cannot say enough good about them without looking like a cheerleader for their services. I have been with them for a few years or so (losing track of time). I have sent many businesses and resellers their way that require maximum reliability and uptime. Their service to price/value cannot be beat and if you need support you cannot find more educated staff. You will NEVER hear "we are going to have to elevate this to level x support staff" - the support staff can handle any issue with their service you may have. I use a lot of scripts along with the clients I send them and have never had issues with performance as they keep a close watch on servers, accounts, and server resources used/required.(...)"

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Thread title: Cartika Hosting
Thread and web hosting review author: imran7706

"(...)Atlast I found a nice home for my website in Cartika Hosting these guys not just matched my expectations but exceeded in terms of support and response times.
Thanks for all the support I received from the webhosting talk community to check my website time and again for its accessibility.
My site is up and running with out hiccups now.
Writing this just to let every body know that I am a very happy man now with Cartika Hosting even though I am paying FOUR TIMES what I used to pay the so called BIG BIG Hosts."

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Thread title: Mercedes Benz of Hosting - Cartika Hosting Review
Thread and web hosting review author: echazen

My comment: H-Sphere has a Fantastico-like feature now, called EasyApp.

"(...)At the recommendation of a friend, I tried out cartikahosting. Their clustered system allows for load sharing of sorts. I have not had one client call and say their site was slow or down. All of my own sites have performed smoothly and without hitch. I tell my associates that I now use the "Mercedes Benz of hosting".

To keep this review fair and unbiased, I will say that there are some "weaknesses" in my point of view. First off, there is no shell access on shared accounts and the reseller control panel is confusing. There are no install apps that I am aware of like Fantastico that are areally handy. (...)

If you want speed and website reliability, go with Cartika. I recommend them highly."

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Thread title: Host review: Cartika
Thread and web hosting review author: moe411

"(...)I never had to wait more than a minute to get help through their chat and on the phone.

We have them host a SQL database wich contains all our client data, resumes and our calendars, needless to say we need this data at all times and speed is a big factor. Before we would get timeouts wich would crash our software, those crashes are now a thing of the past.

Heads up to the people at Cartika for a job well done. We really feel like we joined a quality provider wich is what we were looking for. We have a business to run and we need a partner to host our data and web site. Our business is not technology. We need technology to make our business better an in order to do that, we need providers like Cartika to handle these issues for us. (...)"

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Another method to establish contact with their customers is to visit their support forums.

PS. These reviews were collected at the time when the company was added to the "Honest Hosts" list. For more recent reviews feel free to use www.webhostingtalk.com/search.php and other forums' search feature.