Cloud.bg, A Cloud Hosting Service With cPanel/WHM Launched

Posted by Web Hosting EU on January 20, 2010 0 comments

Cloud.bg, a Cloud hosting service has been launched in Bulgaria, one of the newest members of the European Union, country with rapidly growing IT hosting industry.

According to the company, the service available through the website www.cloud.bg is a standards based cloud, delivered from a fully redundant and scalable clustered architecture built on Red Hat Cluster Suite and on the Cloud hosting automation platform – Fuscan LBC. TheFuscan LBC is a software solution of SingleOS. The platform used by Cloud.bg to automate the web hosting cloud debuted last year as Silver sponsor of HostingCon 2009, the largest conference and expo in the hosting industry.

Cloud.bg hosts its infrastructure in the local facility owned by Interoute , a UK data center solutions provider, which operates 59 data centers and fiber optic network of twelve rings connecting 93 cities in 26 countries.

The new cloud hosting service provider operates its own fully redundant network which uses Internet connectivity providers such as Interoute, Cogent plus few other international and local providers of premium bandwidth. Its service plan features 100 GB of SAN space, 1,000 GB monthly bandwidth and allows anyone to host up to 100 websites on the Cloud.

The main advantage of the Cloud.bg is that offers cPanel Cloud Hosting service and brings cPanel / WHM on the cloud.

“I think that we are the first hosting provider in Europe and probably the first one worldwide that uses cPanel/WHM to deliver web hosting services from the cloud. Thanks to Fuscan LBC, a unique Cloud platform of SingleOS we have managed to automate our clustered server infrastructure we have built in 2009 and to launch fully featured cPanel based on cloud hosting service”, said the Cloud.bg in press release send in the launch day. The CEO of the company thanked for the support of cPanel Inc. (cpanel.net). “They have been very helpful and co-operative in the process of integrating cPanel/WHM control panel on the cloud”, said the Cloud.bg’s CEO, Dimitar Avramov.

Cloud.bg is launched to serve predominantly the local hosting market in Bulgaria. However the company announced its plans to establish itself in the hosting markets in other European Union countries. The development team behind Cloud.bg tested the connectivity of the company’s infrastructure from different point in Europe and shared the results.

The average round-trip delay (RTT) time for EU home users who ping Cloud.bg ranges from 1.5 ms to 60 ms. Pinged from London Cloud.bg is at 47 ms, from Ljubljana, Slovenia – 35 ms, from Paris – 71 ms, from Madrid – 77, from Berlin – 47 ms, from Sofia, Bulgaria – 1.5 ms, etc. The average RTT for Israel is 97 ms.

The new cloud hosting service has already ended its 45 days test period which began in December 2009. During the test period the cloud platform has operated in beta version and was tested by 200 owners of high traffic websites including e-commerce websites, publisher of video content and public utility service providers with hundred thousands of customers. The front end of the Cloud.bg hosting service platform is build on MODx CMS and framework.

New Cloud Hosting Service Launched In Europe

Posted by Web Hosting EU on December 25, 2009 0 comments

Cloud.bg a quite unique Cloud Hosting service launched in Europe in December 2009. Why it is quite unique?

The first key factor is that the service was launched in one of the relatively poorest EU members with a quite undeveloped web hosting market. Although it might look a unimportant from as consumer market of web based services Bulgaria has showed remarkable progress in in growing its IT sector. The company has significant influence in the market of Shared Hosting services.

A popular Shared hosting providers like Hostway, ICDSoft, Siteground and Host Color Europe significant part of their support and customer service operations either based or outsourced in Bulgaria. There are also a number of smaller web hosts and provider who have some kind of human resources based in this European country.

Besides the attention that companies from web hosting industry pay on Bulgaria, the country’s population enjoys a goo Internet connectivity. Most of the home users and all businesses use high speed internet connections based on the most advanced technologies. Having a fiber connectivity to your office in Bulgaria for example is both quite expensive easy. In the second biggest city of Bulgaria, Plovdiv for example, some Internet providers offer fiber for around than $80 per month with the internet service plan included in the price.

So there is no place to wonder why on of the very few European Cloud hosting services has been launched in Bulgaria.

Cloud.bg – Standard based Cloud

Cloud.bg, a hosting service launched in December 2009 is Linux Cloud based on the Fuscan LBC Linux Cloud PaaS, a standard created by the U.S. software company Single OS. The infrastructure of the new European cloud hosting service utilizes the Red Hat Cluster Suite standards on infrastructure level and uses full virtualization techniques to create virtual environments.
The Single OS, the software producer or the cloud hosting technology has developed a solution which is quite unique on the web hosting market. It succeeded to build probably the first cloud hosting service in web hosting industry that is based on already proven standards in web hosting industry such as cPanel, Parallels Virtuozo Containers, Plesk, etc.

Unlike most cloud hosting services available in he market the Cloud.bg Cloud Hosting Services use these software standards, something which makes the company and it’s approach quite unique. Cloud.bg also provides Reseller Cloud Hosting services. The company, that is a new brand created by on of the leaders Bulgaria’s web hosting market FColor.bg.

However the Cloud.bg ambitious plan is to open the service for the whole European market and to site owners from other countries in the Eastern and South Eastern Europe which are not part of the European Union. And the company has a very good chance to establish their cloud hosting service on the non-liberalized European market. One of the reason is that Cloud.bg enjoys an excellent connectivity to any part f the Europe. Ping www.cloud.bg and you’ll see that for yourself.

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