E2E Networks

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We an India based Hosting and Cloud Computing start-up, aim to help all our peers with equal ambitions and energy to strive and succeed. Hitherto it was only the large media houses and venture backed startups that could do snappy websites using expensive low latency datacenter facilities in India. We have pulled the powers from large media houses, corporates and venture backed start-ups, by designing special ‘low latency’ hosting services for start-ups at highly competitive rates.

We know long loading times have subtle effects on user behavior as corroborated by many other studies. If you are a start-up competing with big guys hosted locally you know you need to equal or better their snappiness advantages and if your competition is hosted in US then *move to India before your competition does to create an edge*

For technical understanding on why latency matters please refer the blog and make a well informed decision while choosing hosting for your servers in India instead of high latency locations like US if your web visitors are from India.

As a special Independence month offer we’ll waive off 50% of the onetime setup fee on all dedicated server hosting in India if you sign up on or before EOD 31st of Aug 2010. Also avail 5% discount on usage of coupon code [ India-Aug-2010 ] on monthly fees on all our dedicated server hosting in India and Virtual Private Server hosting in India, over and above the other automatic discounts mentioned on our website

For startups who would like to start small please check out our India based VPS server hosting plans starting from Rs. 1799/mo . We offer sane support for even un-managed India based server hosting plans with a lot of free security and scaling advice on application architecture side.

For serious bloggers using E2E Networks VPS servers we provide generous on-demand capacity bursting capabilities for free if you give us a heads up on a breaking news story that could get dugg/slashdotted an hour or two in advance.

Your feedback on how we can bring hosting back to India is important to us and we welcome it at all times just as we welcome traceroutes from everywhere in India to us, regardless of whether or not you are an existing customer of E2E Networks.

Upstream issue at our ISP forced them to re-route us manually. The first pingdom report came in at Aug 17 2010, 3:25 PM IST and the pingdom report for service back up was received at Aug 17, 3:37 PM IST.

This was an un-planned network downtime out of direct control of E2E Networks.
While we strive to inform and update our customers but for un-planned network related downtimes our first focus is to follow up with the ISP(s) to get the issue resolved first.

India’s first barcamp was practically a turning point for the startup scene in the country or atleast it appears so to yours truly.
Slideshare.com was practically ideated by participating uzanto.com folks at the venue. Geobeats was looking for technology driven co-founders here. It was truly exciting to be amongst all these folks and many more

The presentation by Kunal whose upshot is this slide had the maximum impact on what ails the Indian broadband penetration numbers, the idea that different companies can fix the different parts of this equation was clearer, before this I always thought a wireless ISP at my hometown would be a nice upgrade to its infrastructure :-

So here we are at E2E Networks Private Limited reiterating our promise ‘It will happen, it will happen in our lifetimes’
Pervasive and world’s fastest broadband Internet in every Indian home that can afford a Rs. 750 or more a month connection and this would happen only if everyone who has to serve Indian audience hosts in India. We are doing our part of the bargain which is to bringing Internet traffic ( dependent on content and applications ) back to India so your last mile ISPs can stop complaining about the high cost of International Bandwidth, the cost of National long distance backhaul is a no-brainer there is million kilometers of practically un-used dark fiber capacity in the country today, the last mile is already available to the extent of 8Mbps ( no wonder you have those IPTV and other anti-net neutrality products riding the last mile ). So whether your Internet business uses a mere 100GB bandwidth a month or several 100 terabytes we are are ready to serve your hosting needs. Its not just about performance, bringing hosting back to India also means your contribution to growth of broadband in the country and consequently to the growth of your own marketplace.

So in the enlightened self interest of helping grow the broadband marketplace we are launching the phase 3 of bandwidth price war in a few more weeks from now the E2E Networks’s Cloud Computing Products cheaper than anyone else in the Asia Pacific region.

And oh by the way we’ll waive off 50% setup fee till the end of August starting today for next 15 days. The signup must be completed before 31st August 2010 to avail this special offer. So bring your servers back to India.

There was high CPU utilization at router at our ISP. We notified the ISP of the issue at 4:00 PM as soon as we experienced it.
The network was back for non-bharti routes at around 4:40 PM or so and for Bharti routes by 4:58 PM. It was degraded from 4:00 PM to 4:25 PM and from 4:25 PM to 4:58 PM was completely down till 4:58 PM. This was an un-planned network downtime out of direct control of E2E Networks. While we strive to inform and update our customers but for un-planned network related downtimes our first focus is to follow up with the ISP(s) to get the issue resolved first.

Over next one week we’ll roll out support for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on our VPS servers. Stay tuned.