| Article from "the whir" By David Hamilton:
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Bulgaria's longest running web host, FColor.bg (fcolor.bg), has launched Cloud.bg (cloud.bg), a fully featured cloud hosting service that runs popular web hosting control panel cPanel/WHM.
According to the company's Wednesday announcement, Cloud.bg is available through the local Bulgarian website is a standards-based cloud, delivered from a fully redundant and scalable clustered architecture built on Red Hat Cluster Suite (redhat.com/cluster_suite) and on Fuscan LBC (fuscan.com), a cloud automation platform developed by US software firm SingleOS. The front end of the Cloud.bg hosting service platform is built on MODx CMS (modxcms.com).
Featuring cPanel/WHM control panel, Cloud.bg offers 100 GB of space in a storage area network, 1,000 GB data transfer per month, and allows site owners to host up to 100 personal and small-business websites, all for 33 Bulgaria Leva (about $24) per month with a one-year contract.
"I think that we are probably the first hosting provider in Europe to use cPanel/WHM to deliver web hosting services from the cloud," Cloud.bg chief executive officer Dimitar Avramov said in a statement. "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."
Hosted in Bulgaria, which is one of the EU's newest members and boasts a rapidly growing IT hosting industry, Cloud.bg's cloud infrastructure is located in a local facility run by UK data center solutions provider Interoute (interoute.com). Cloud.bg operates on a fully redundant network that uses Internet connectivity providers including Interoute, Cogent (cogentco.com), and a few other international and local providers for premium bandwidth.
The Cloud.bg hosting service was launched after a 45 day beta test period that began in December. During that period, the cloud platform was tested by 200 high-traffic websites including e-commerce websites, video sites, and public utility service providers.
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. The average round-trip delay time for European home users who ping Cloud.bg generally ranges from about 10 to 60 milliseconds. Pinged from London Cloud.bg is reachable in 47 ms, 35 ms from Ljubljana, Slovenia, 71 ms from Paris, 77 from Madrid, 47 ms from Berlin, 1.5 ms from Sofia, Bulgaria, and 97 ms from Israel.
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