We will be showcasing our web hosting support & server management services and have some special promotional offers as well !

So, see you all there

Coupon code : REPUBLIC2010

Offer closes on 31st January ‘10.
So, what are you waiting for? Sign up immediately and enjoy our excellent services at rock-bottom prices!

* Offer valid on new sign-ups only.

You can contact us at sales@railscarma.com for any of your Ruby On Rails related needs. We can work out a deal on an hourly, monthly or on a per project basis.

Besides this, we are also offering a couple of partnership opportunities as given below :

A. White-label partnership

RailsCarma services can be resold by you under your own brand. Through this initiative, we aim to make it possible for you to easily add Ruby on Rails web development, which has huge demand right now, to your portfolio of services. With our services and your user base, we can both profit.

B. Become an affiliate

If anyone you know has any Ruby On Rails related requirements then you could forward them to us. We can work together on a profit sharing basis on such projects.

Let us know if you are interested or if you have any queries.

–Lord Tennyson

InstaCarma wishes all its readers and followers a happy and prosperous new year ahead.
We will continue to bring you useful content from the world of web hosting support and system administration in the new year. Stay tuned also for exciting new developments at InstaCarma — 2010 is going to be an exciting year !

We’re offering huge discounts on dedicated techs and systems administrators — you can hire dedicated techs from us starting at just $690/month. We have techs with experience levels ranging from 1 year to 5 years (Levels 1 through 3), skilled in all the popular web hosting platforms such as cPanel and Parallels (check out our skill set offerings here).

The prices we’re offering you are hugely discounted (more than 40%). Our techs are extremely good — we’re extremely quality conscious and place huge emphasis on hiring, training, HR and QA processes (just some of the reasons behind our stellar 7-year track record and happy clients), so this is a great chance for you to hire top class techs at such great price points!

We’ve invested heavily through the year in hiring best talent and providing excellent training, so we have some great resources available. We’re looking to bill all these resources by the year end, so hurry — the offer will not remain open for long!

We provide free trial (upto 1 week) and a 1-month unconditional money back guarantee.

Please send your inquiries to sales[at]instacarma.com. We look forward to hearing from you.

Happy holidays!

We have been associated with the internet services industry for close to 7 years now, providing technical support and server management services to web hosting companies and datacenters across the globe. Having started providing support services to Ruby On Rails hosting companies way back in 2006 when it was the very beginning of RoR which is now one of the most sought after web development platforms, it was a logical step for us to venture into this area.

One of our major turning points was hiring Neeraj Chowdhary, who now heads project delivery at our organization. Neeraj is one of the best in the industry with extensive experience in Ruby on Rails and agile development. He has been in this industry since the very beginning and his profile boasts of some extra-ordinary projects. Soon after he was hired we started receiving some great feedback from our projects and we knew we had a special thing going. We then went about integrating the development wing with our already established Ruby on Rails server management and support division, and this became RailsCarma.

We are looking forward to enter strategic partnerships with hosting and development companies.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank Ping! Zine for this recognition. Also, hats off to iNet – the organizers of HostingCon, for putting up an awesome show.

HostingCon is the place where one can meet the who’s who of the Hosting Industry under one roof. We are thankful to all those who were involved in making this venture a huge success and look forward to be there next year as well!

The coupon will expire on the 31st of October, 2009. Hurry up and avail this fabulous discount!

The company has been scaling well in the recent past. Foreseeing the potential problems which might arise as a result of this, InstaCarma added a new-age 25KVA brushless AC generator to its power back-up facility. Besides higher capacity, the generator is eco-friendly and produces very little noise. Addition of this diesel genset has increased the total capacity of the facility to 50 KVA.

25KVA brushless AC generator

We signed off the event with announcements of our give-aways — congratulations to the winners!

The conference is the place to be to meet the who’s who of the Hosting Industry. Its a great show with informative sessions and fun parties. The exhibit hall was full of activity and its great to check out the offerings of so many companies under one roof. The whole atmosphere was very vibrant and the networking has been great.

We’ve managed to get a lot of people very interested, so much so that the Directors of the company are staying back in the US till the 25th, meeting up with various companies to take discussions which started at the conference forward.

Overall, we’re thrilled with the response to our company and its offerings which has been fantastic and we’ve already gone ahead and booked a booth for next year’s HostingCon to be held at Austin, Texas (we’ve booked booth #420). For now, here are some pictures from the just concluded HostingCon ‘09.

We are thankful to all those who were involved in making this venture a huge success!

The session is titled “Exploring Advantages for Hosting Companies in the Emerging World“. There are 2 speakers for the session, one being Arun of course, and the other being Eduardo Vila of HostingPanama.com. The session consists of a talk by each individual speaker, followed by a Q&A session.

Arun will be talking about the many advantages that India offers to Hosting Companies in the US. He will deliver market insights gleaned from years of interaction with industry peers in India. InstaCarma also carried out a market study in India specifically for the purpose of understanding the Indian market better and sharing its learning with industry colleagues in the west. Insights from this research and other sources can all be expected in the talk.

Arun will also share several operational insights, from areas such as recruitment, training, retention, quality assurance and HR management, insights that are very relevant from an Indian perspective. He will draw upon his 7 years of industry experience in which he has worked in several capacities – from core technical work involving fixing servers and helping customers; to managerial roles involving hands-on supervision, training, recruitment, QA, HR management etc; to business development and company affairs. Being one of the founders of our bootstrapped, organically grown company he has well rounded perspectives and sharp insights into running a web hosting support operation. The speech is also designed to act as a bit of a primer to anyone who is curious about India as a business destination in general.

We’re very excited about the speech because its a topic close to our hearts. In Arun’s own words “I’m a firm believer in the fact that in today’s flat world, just as the west can be viewed as a great opportunity by the developing world, the opposite holds true as well because India offers excellent advantages to businesses in the developed world as well. I have mentioned this in one of my slides and I cannot stress enough on its importance so I’ll say it again – if globalization is inevitable, so is a presence in India”

The speech has special relevance in today’s times when companies have to do whatever they can to increase revenues and become operationally more versatile and lean. India has always been referred to as a low cost
destination, but in his speech Arun also talks of India as a market poised to boom, and how Hosting companies can benefit by using India as both an operational base to tap its operational advantages and at the same time explore its growing hosting market and create new revenue channels with tremendous potential to grow. It is also a fairly easy market to enter for a business like hosting because remote functioning is easily possible in this industry. Companies in the US can set up operations in India that can initially augment its US operation. Then, as marketing initiatives in India start taking effect, the same operation can serve Indian clients as well. There is no money or
productivity lost as the India operation can be productive from day one by serving the US customers. The kind of versatility this lends is very good for businesses.

The speech also puts operations in India and its benefits into perspective in a much more holistic way. Says Arun “When people think of starting an operation in India, the main thought is cost benefits. But there are several other benefits as well, such as easy scalability due to abundant talent. Sample this – India produces about 5 times as many engineers each year than the whole of Europe put together does! There are also other lesser known advantages such as a favorable legal system, and these will all be touched upon in the speech”.

India is a great opportunity to reduce costs, and increase revenue. This speech will have a lot of great take aways for anyone looking to tap those benefits.

The website content goes on to explain why InstaCarma and its employees are superheroes of hosting support. We identify and associate so much with this concept that we’ve even created an alias website name – www.hostingsuperhero.com (and .net, .org etc) that points to instacarma.com.

Working on the website and launching it has been a thoroughly satisfying experience. Right at the outset we wanted to do things that would uniquely deliver our core service message to visitors.
For this purpose,
(a) we created a mascot for our brand that signifies what we stand for, and
(b) we also incorporated modern methods of delivering content.

The website also talks about some of the enhancements in InstaCarma’s service offerings. We’ve incorporated stuff like video conferencing and the ability for clients to collaborate with their teams through BaseCamp, a very popular collaboration tool today. We’re also very excited about the new modes of support that we’re now offering. Key among them being support through social media, such as Twitter and forums, which we feel can help clients reach out better to their customers. We’re firm believers in the power of social media. For companies, it not only helps their marketing and SEO initiatives, but also increases customer satisfaction and loyalty greatly. It also allows companies to give prospective customers a glimpse of the kind of care they can expect. Hosting Companies would be greatly benefited by adding social media channels to the support options they offer to their customers.

We created the superhero character because of InstaCarma’s stress on providing services of superlative quality. The superhero is also a representation of each InstaCarma employee, who’re the true superheroes
in the way they do whatever it takes to fulfill client commitments. A superhero is someone with superpowers, and that too is a reference to the level of skills that we possess here at InstaCarma.

As far as delivering content was concerned, we wanted our visitors to be able to learn about our company and its services in a most convenient and interesting way – videos. These days with increasing internet speed, videos are becoming an increasingly popular medium for delivering content on the internet, so it made a lot of sense to go with it.

We also decided to incorporate a lot of dynamic content from our blog, which has witnessed a steady increase in its viewer ship since it was started a couple of months ago. We’ve also made it easy for visitors to stay connected with the company, by providing RSS and twitter links on our website.

Feedback is most welcome … in fact, while revamping, the thing topmost on our minds was to increase convenience for the visitor. So all of you are encouraged to let us know your comments. Thanks!

Our recruitment process is quite rigorous, consisting of various levels of tests where we check candidates’ problem solving aptitude, technical skills and English communication skills. These tests are followed by interviews where we look for the right kind of attitude, soft skills, emotional quotient and values in the candidates, apart from once again thoroughly testing their technical knowledge and problem solving abilities. No wonder then that our selection rate is so low. Though our requirement is for just 20 new hires, we’ve already visited about a dozen colleges and will be going to many more, relentlessly in search for those perfect candidates who can match up to our high expectations, candidates who can live up to the “Hosting Superhero” tag that our brand associates with!

InstaCarma's HR team at Sri Venkateshwara College of Engineering,Bengaluru

We nurture and train these exceptionally talented students and make them industry ready. At InstaCarma, they get that golden opportunity from where they can build a sound career platform and a great future!