UK2 Launched New Cloud Hosting Platform

Posted by Web Hosting EU on February 25, 2011 0 comments

UK2 announced a new cloud hosting platform. The company said improvements and upgrades have been made to the hosting packages its product suite. The provider claims that its network now features a lower contention ratio, which according to UK2 means that all websites hosted on its servers will load faster and work quicker.

The UK2 cloud allows virtual servers and hosting packages to offer redundancy. The host claims that it has done away with the traditional single points of failure such as hard drives, power supplies and single servers. If a any website or server fails or crashes it instantly moves to a new piece of hardware and prevents downtime.

In a scenario when the customer’s site or server experiences a sudden surge in traffic, it will have the option to add RAM to their Cloud VPS to handle the larger load of work (however this is not confirmed as available service, yet). The upgrades help to maximise the uptime of UK2 customers.

“We are constantly rolling out new and improved products to keep up with the demand of technology. Cloud hosting is one of those advancements in technology that will change the way we look at hosting. In the last few months we have seen a culmination of hard work and innovation bring to life a faster, more efficient and powerful cloud hosting platform which we have now implemented with immediate effect and is available on our website.”, says Martin Baker, Managing Director at UK2.

The UK2.net owns companies VPS.net and Onapp. Mr. Baker claims UK2 offers 100% confidence in its Cloud Hosting products and the company’s customers enjoy a stable hosting experience on UK2′s cloud platform.

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.