Cloud.bg Has Been Officially Launched On Jan 21

The Cloud.bg cloud hosting service has been officially launched today (Jan 21 2010). The cloud hosting service is powered by Fuscan Linux Cloud, a cloud automation platform produced by Single OS. Cloud.bg is one of the very few Cloud computing class web hosting services in Europe and the first cloud hosting service that brings the popular web hosting automation control panel cPanel/WHM on the cloud.

"Cloud.bg, a fully featured Cloud hosting service has been launched in Europe today! It is a subsidiary of FColor.bg, the Bulgaria's longest running web hosting provider, a company that serves the local web hosting market since 2000. The Cloud.bg is the first European and probably the world's first cloud hosting service that runs the most popular web hosting control panel cPanel/WHM." says an official statement of released by Cloud.bg. It has been published in some of the most trusted media in web hosting industry TheWHIR (Bulgarian Web Host Debuts New European Cloud Hosting Brand, Cloud.bg) and Webhosting.info (Cloud.bg, A New European Cloud Hosting Provider Launched).

The cluster infrastructure used by Cloud.bg is based on the standards of Red Hat Cluster Suite. The website is created by web designer Kristalin Chavdarov and is based on the popular PHP development framework MODx CMS.

Cloud Based On Standards

Cloud.bg is a cloud hosting service based on the above mentioned software standards and is the first ever Cloud hosting service to enable site owner to use cPanel/WHM control panel on the cloud. Cloud.bg hosting service offers 100 GB premium disc space in storage area network (SAN), 1 000 GB monthly data transfer and allows its customers to host and manage up to 100 different websites on their accounts. The price of the Cloud.bg hosting plan is €20/month for annual subscription plans. The price in Bulgarian currency is 33 Bgn + VAT (an amount that accounts to 20 euros).

"We have been working very hard to launch the first cloud hosting service based on cPanel. Cloud.bg is definitely the first cPanel cloud in Europe and probably the first one in the world", said the founder of Cloud.bg Dimitar Avramov.

"Thanks to Fuscan LBC, a unique Cloud platform of Single OS we have managed to automate our clustered server infrastructure we have built in 2009 and to launch our cloud hosting service", said also Mr. Avramov and added that Cloud.bg's development team appreciated a lot 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", explained the CEO of Cloud.bg.

Cloud Hosting that works good for all European users

Although the hosting service of Cloud.bg is aimed to serve mostly the local Bulgarian market, the company has tested the connectivity of its infrastructure from different point in Europe and shared the results.

The average round-trip delay (RTT) time for European home users who ping Cloud.bg ranges from 10 ms to 60 ms. Pinged from London Cloud.bg is reachable for 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 Cloud.bg hosting service has passed 45 days test period which began in December 2009.

During the test period the cloud platform 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.